Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip... Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 18:00:04 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 X-Unparsable-Date: Sat Apr 27 91 at 23:06:27 (EDT) | Someone mentioned that the Audio Animator has a 12 bit DAC built |in correct? So it doesn't use the ensoniq d/a. Now can the GS play back |12 bit samples? I always thought it could only do 8 bit normally. Once |and for all, is this true or not? If it can do 12 bit then wonderful things |are a foot... | | thanks... I think I'm the one who mentioned it. Yes the Audio Animator does have a 12-bit DAC. The audio gets sampled as 12 bit, but saved as 8 bit. The Ensoniq has a built 4-bit DAC. AE probablely used a 12-bit to do oversampling, which helps improve sampling resolution and accruracy. Don't except CD quality though, after all the Ensoniq does only 8-bits, but it's still much better than any other computer when comes to sound... with the exception of the NeXT which does 16-bit CD quality audio. I was going to say something else, but now, I've forgotten. INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil