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From: v097pba8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Ken F Morton)
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Subject: Ensoniq Chip and Video sound production
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Date: 12 Apr 91 20:01:59 GMT
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	I think I've asked this before, but what is the playback resolution
of the ensoniq chip?  I think it is 8bit, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.  Any
software tricks to make the output psuedo-16 bit (like sampling at 16 and the
messing with more than one sound generator pair...).  Anyway, my thought was
to use the GS as a Video sound production workstation (a very limited one).
Stripe the video tape with SMPTE, use a SMPTE to MIDI converter to a GS midi
interface, and trigger the playing of samples from the GS.  Along with playing
a MIDI sequence at the same time, this could be very powerful.  Sorta like
a cheap version of Opcode's Studio Vision.  If the GS output is 8 bit then 
it might not be up to the quailty I'd like.  What do you people think?

oh yeah, is it possible to de-multiplex more than two channels of sound
from the GS?  I think I read somewhere that it is possible...

					thanks...


Ken Morton				"A vacant engineer rides on a
v097pba8@ubvms.Bitnet			 train of thought that will not
v097pba8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu		 lead him home" - Edie Brickell