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From: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Music program
Message-ID: <18931@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 20:25:11 GMT
References: <87721@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1991Feb13.002229.2364@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb13.002229.2364@ecst.csuchico.edu> gdunlap@ecst.csuchico.edu (RANXEROX) writes:
>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
>

>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).
>

Actually, I wrote a program a while back that does something like this.  Note
that it eats memory like mad, takes a long time to run, and is basically not
a fun program to deal with.  I did do ONE song that uses 12 voices
simultaneously, though, using it.  Took about 5 hours to "compile" the song.
I keep meaning to go back to the program and update it, but somehow never
get around to it.

			-- Kevin --

Kevin Klop		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!kevin
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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