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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Lousy input sound
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Date: 27 Oct 88 18:43:17 GMT
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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.
-=-
Zippy sez,								--Bob
This ASEXUAL PIG really BOILS my BLOOD...  He's so..so.....URGENT!!