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From: carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MEGA STE trouble
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.210238.21718@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:02:38 GMT
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In article <CMM.0.88.670807428.larserio@kvart.ifi.uio.no> larserio@ifi.uio.no
writes:
>I have two problems with my new MEGA STE, and wondered if anyone out there
>had any good ideas for fixing them:
>
>1)  When using STEREO DMA sound (not normal ST sound) I get "static" (small
>    clicks kind of) in the sound.  Sounds almost like a spark.  Occurs even
>    when there is no sound (as long as the voulume is on).  It has has no
>    strict pattern and occurs every now and then.   Anyone have an idea ??

It may not be a problem at all.  Some samples aren't sampled at the max
rate, and therefore will seem a bit staticky.  The higher the sample
rate per second, the better the sound quality.

If you want to get rid of the popping and static, get better samples at higher
rates like 47KHz for example.  Careful though, this requires MEGA 4 amounts
of memory to do this, and it doesn't last long.

--Gregory