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- On 15 May 1996, Douglas Little wrote:
-
- > > I'd be happy just to see Falcon developers making use of the DSP we already
- > > have before adding even more. Relatively slow it may be, but it's still much
- > > more capable than Falcon users seem to think.
- >
- > > That's why I wanted a c-compiler for it.... :-)
- >
- > Unfortunately, C compilers don't count in this case. You just end up with
- > code nearly as slow as it is on the CPU. Maybe even slower. :)
-
- Yep, two gyus I know that are both studying DSP here at AUC, says exactly
- the same.
-
- > If there were advantages to using C on the 56K, I'd be encouraging it all round,
- > but the truth is there are no practical advantages.
-
- Apparantly not....
-
- > > a variety of purposes, but most still treat it like an add-on sample player.
- >
- > > Yepp, I know but it looks like the 56001 is an expert on soundprocessing.
- >
- > Yes, it's great for sound processing - but 'sound processing' is not limited
- > to sample remapping, mixing and silly effects. That's about as far as it goes
- > in Falcon software. What about phase vocoders, fft modelling & decent quality
- > time-stretching software?
-
- Actually there has just been released a new piece of commercial software
- called VOXX, which works as a vocoder and stuff.
-
- It's for professional use indeed.
-
- >
- > It's still mostly an under-used gimmick.
- >
- > > Yes, there appears to be a 32-bit local data bus in addition to the standard
- > > expansion slot.
- >
- > > Hey, that's cool. Are you sure?
- >
- > Well, I can see it! :)
- >
- Me too, but from the ST-Computer magazine :-/
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- Keep Cool and Flying...
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- ChainXOR...
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