Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jimomura
From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: MM/1 Software Suggestions..
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 23:36:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.233612.17124@lsuc.on.ca>
Keywords: Software
References: <96@sandv.UUCP>

In article <96@sandv.UUCP> Steve@sandv.UUCP (Steve Laisch) writes:
>
>We'll.. a while back somebody asked what kind of term program that would be
>available for the MM/1.. We'll.. if IMS/IDEA really wants to do good inthis
>area they shouldlook at Jr. Comm for the Amiga...
>
>Another thing that they should look for the Amiga in terms of Rendering
>software is a program called Imagine...
>
>One more thing.. if their looking for games to either mold or port over to
>the MM/1 they should look at companies such as Psygnosis & Cinemaware..
>
>.. One thing that i >>>REALLY<<< hate about the MM/1 is though even though it
>has dual stereo sound theirs only 2 voices! And not only that their 8 bit but
>their is not really any music(note) chip envolved.. so I wouldthink the only
>way people could produce sound in this thing is digitize every note/sound in
>a synthesizer and put together the required criteria for their
>application..(A very tedious thing in its self!).. - Regards..

     Well not really.  The MM/1 hardware is a direct subset of CD-I.
For CD-I one expects "mass digitizing" for sound.  That is to say
First you compose and produce your music as you would any song you'd
want to put out on a CD record, and then you digitize the whole thing.
This may sound like a wasteful idea for traditional "computer music"
people, but it's the "wave of the future."  It's undoubtably why the
Atari STE has only a small handful of fixed D to A speeds for DMA
sound production.



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