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>  Like the subject line says.  is it two per channel equaling eight? 
>or just four, one per channel? or something else entirely?  Thanks,

A funny question...       ...take a synth, put all your fingers on
its keys, and press. Sample the result, and play the sample on all
8 channels in OctaMED. That's 80 notes, isn't it? :-)

Back to reality. You surely meant to ask, how many samples can an
Amiga play at once? On the hardware, it can do 4. Nearly every
good moduleplayer can mix in software, and play 32 samples at
once. That will, of course, require the Amiga's CPU come and
push. Even an Amiga 500 can play 32 channels, though. Or that's
what they tell me. My basic A1200 played very high quality 16-
channel music with 14-bit output while still having enough
horsepower to run Wordworth 3.1SE at the same speed as my
Pentium-75 runs MS Word 6.0 without anything else on. :-) No,
really.

Some new trackers can do a max. of 256 channels at once,
if you have the horsepower.

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