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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: DSP not as good as we thought?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.022846.18971@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
- References: <1992Nov20.184901.15161@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:28:46 GMT
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- In <1992Nov20.184901.15161@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M.S. Ashton) writes:
- >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?
-
- One of the major points of having a DSP in an audio system is that it is
- very capable of changing a sample frequency in real time (and it can even
- keep the playback speed which is impossible if you 'just' have a variable
- rate DMA channel).
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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