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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip...
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Date: 29 Apr 91 18:30:03 GMT
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From 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao):
> But once someone does, with 16 bit sampled instruments, and unlimited
> size for the instruments, things could be hot!

    Maybe someone should design a MIDI card with extra sound support onboard
for the GS (like a megabyte of dedicated waveform RAM, a few ADC/DAC chips,
noise-reduction circuitry, 16-bit sampling, all the various MIDI stuff, etc.).
The problem with keeping good 16-bit waveforms in RAM is memory space.  That's
why I suggest having a sound card with a separate dedicated memory space. 
Most people don't realize how much a decent instrument waveform can take up. 
For a really nice grand piano sample, 1 megabyte is not unrealistic (separate
samples for every key).

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."