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- From: mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M.S. Ashton)
- Subject: DSP not as good as we thought?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.184901.15161@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:01 GMT
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- Am I to understand (from reading a review of the Falcon) that the DSP chip
- is not capable of reproducing digital sound at variable frequency (like Paula
- can) and is, in fact, limited to fixed rates such as 12.5,25,50KHz.
- If this is the case then all the nice DMA sound is completely unusable for
- computer generated music (soundtracker/Med etc.) and only useful from replaying
- a sample at the frequency it was sampled at.
- Am I to understand that to get round this, one needs to use masses of
- real-time CPU intervention,thus spoiling the whole point?
- Is this why Commodore left it out?
- Any more info?
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- people that visit me from time to time.They are not those of my employer,
- basically,because I haven't got one.
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