Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!rlcollins From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip... Message-ID: <5070.281c1d81@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 18:20:01 GMT References: <1991Apr28.221627.24547@utstat.uucp> Lines: 32 In article <1991Apr28.221627.24547@utstat.uucp>, philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes: > In article whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) writes: > > [stuff dealing with the AA, GS sound, 12bit,8bit,4bit,etc...] > >>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 have both a GS and a NeXT(cube/040). There is this issue of digital > versus synthesized sound. I have yet to hear anything on the NeXT that > comes anywhere near the quality of some of the sounds coming out of > Diversi-Tune. Digitized sounds take up enormous space and use a lot of > RAM. It would seem to me that MIDI( using the Ensoniq's midi mode) is a > far better way to store musical sounds at least, and as for digitized > sounds, one would be better off (I think, not sure here) storing the > Fourier coefficients of the decomposition rather than the whole waveform. > Somehow I have this feeling that digitizing is simply not the way to go, > not only for music but also for other forms of sound. (\ /) |A| lot of movie companies are moving toward using digitized sound for the (/ \) soundtracks and special effects. The music for the movie Born on the Fourth of July was all digitized and edited with an Atari ST. (I figure they had to use some outside electroncs, since the old STs weren't capable of reproducing that quality of sound) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins Question for MAC Users: rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET |||| Power Without What IS the format of a rc1dsanu@miamiu.BITNET / || \ The Price!! MAC HFS floppy disk? R.COLLINS1 on GEnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------