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From: czei@neutron.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger)
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Subject: Re: Lousy input sound
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Date: 27 Oct 88 19:42:18 GMT
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In article <25890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <907@accelerator> czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes:
>>I'd be suprised if they could play 44.1Khz stereo audio directly from
>>the optical disk.  More than likely they just load up several megs of
>>audio directly into memory and play from there.
>
>Neither.  It synthesizes in real time from notation, which has a much
>lower storage bandwidth and size requirement than the sound itself.
>-=-

My answer was in response to a previous statement that the audio
input was only 8 bits, because it is probably impossible to
record stereo 44.1Khz audio directly to the optical disk.  While
the DSP chip on the NeXT has been highly touted as an audio wonder,
it is certainly not the only way to make sound with a computer.  It
is a definate requirement that a computer music workstation be
capable of recording or playing directly from disk.


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