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Subject: Re: fat agnus + pal + noistrackers
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.130922.502@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Date: 23 Apr 91 13:09:22 +1200
References: <1991Apr21.224513.46281@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <20665@brahms.udel.edu>
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In article <20665@brahms.udel.edu>, jon@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:

>>>Rebels total triple trouble). However, the music is also slower too. 
>>>is it normal ? A lot of the soundtracks seem "more" right on NTSC machine.
>>>but slower on Pseudo Pal. 
>
> OK.  I can see that. But are the people in PAL-land writing these songs
> to be this slow?  In other words, when in PAL mode on an NTSC machine,
> will I be hearing the music at the same speed as it was intended?

Well, if it's using a PAL screen, chances are it was designed in a PAL
country, in which case the music would also have been written expecting
a 50hz vblank. Hence, though it might sound slow to you (after being used
to it playing 20% faster) , it's probably how the artist intended.
 
I get the reverse effect here, when I run american software in NTSC
mode - the music sounds wrong as it's going faster than it normally
does (NZ is a PAL country), but that's how the author's must have inteneded
it to sound....

now what we really need is a 'speed bias' control for the amiga like
you find on turntables :-)
 
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