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Subject: Re: Music program
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Date: 13 Feb 91 00:22:29 GMT
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In article <87721@unix.cis.pitt.edu> mager@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Rainer V Mager) writes:
>
>2:  Is there any music program out there that allows more than 4 voices
>simultaneously (without hardware uphgrade)?  I was thinking since it is
>possible to mix digitized sounds (like DMCS instruments) wouldn't it be
>possible to mix them on the fly to play more than one instrument per
>channel?  Or would there be too many time and memory constraints?  Just
>a thought.
>
>Rainer
>
>mager@unix.cis.pitt.edu

      If there IS one, I'd like to know about it myself;  however, I
don't think there is one for the Amiga.  I DO believe it's possible,
because a friend of mine has a music program for his Mac called Studio
Session, which somehow provides SIX voices (but the volume is reduced).
Since the Mac has FOUR hardware voices, the programmers of Studio Session
must be performing some clever software trick.  I don't know the inner
details of the Mac's sound hardware, but I feel that if the Mac can do it,
so can the Amiga (witness A-Max II).

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