Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!flatline!sugar!ssd
From: ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: stereo sound (and Dynamic Drums)
Message-ID: <1445@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 08:27:29 GMT
References: <5899@utcsri.UUCP> <2793@masscomp.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 17
Keywords: sound channel allocation MIDI
Summary: Well Behaved Stereo Sound

In article <2793@masscomp.UUCP>, rad@masscomp.UUCP (Bob Doolittle) writes:
> Pro MIDI Studio.  Even if I only lay down 2 tracks (using 2 voices),
> when I play it back the tracks jump from right to left between notes.
> I've heard the same problem holds for Deluxe Music Construction Set.
> This effect can really ruin an otherwise reasonable sounding piece.  I
> presume that these packages are simply allocating a free channel on a
> note-by-note basis, rather than being intelligent about channel
> allocation.
> 
I don't know just why they do it that way, but it is annoying. Sonix is
apparently not prone to this particular little nasty while playing back
a track, though it does bounce the keyboard channel back and forth.....
The effect in DMCS is rather like over-done 70's acid rock mixing!!!