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From: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Re: Apple VS IBM
Message-ID: <2345@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 18:33:30 GMT
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Reply-To: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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>of the best samples achievable on the IIGS, still pales beside the Amiga. What
>happened Apple? Give us a machine we can be proud of again. Lets see a COU that
>will lay the aging Amiga to rest once and for all. 
>						Mark Kern

   I'd just like to point out a few things about GS sound.  
   First, there are a few programs that have excellent sound
   quality.  (Like Skate or Die and Winter Games).  but there is
   a hardware limit to the samples a GS can have (correct me if I
   am wrong).   The Ensoniq has 64K of RAM to itself but I think
   that this is the ONLY RAM that you can put instrument samples.
   I have 1.25 Megs of RAM, and therefore plenty of room for samples
   larger than 64K.  If we could find a way around this, we could
   start porting samples off of the actual Mirage disks.  That would
   improve clarity (I've found that just the interference from the GS
   adds a lot of noise).  
      If there is a program that I think will do this, it is Diversi 
      Tune.  Bill Basham has not finished his instrument definition
      module yet.  I hope (I don't know what it will be like when it is
      done) that it will solve these memory problems (if they can be
      evaded by software means).  All of the samples that Diversi
      Tune has (Piano, Organ, "String", and a pretty complete Drum Kit)
      all fit in about 32K.  when/if the instrument definition module
      is complete, I plan on dedicating as much memory as I can to
      on one sample.  

      Anyway, don't count GS sound out yet.  There is still much more
      comming out.

					Collin Douglas