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Salutations David for on the 11 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;

 DN> Unfortunately a DSP is not magic.  1 channel of 48Khz 16 bit sound  is
 DN> 96K/s.  Assuming your samples are spooled from hard disk, Zorro-II can
 DN> only transfer a max of 2.5 MB/s, which limits you to about 25  channels
 DN> and that is assuming that your drive have no seek time as they swap
 DN> between 25 mono AIFF files.  Ie 16 will be your max. At 16 
 DN> channel your bus will be close to saturated (that is why Sunrise was 
 DN> only 8 channels).

Assuming you don't use some nifty more efficient method to store your
samples of course...

 DN> That is the main reason the Audio card I have been working on is 
 DN> Zorro-III.  Bus saturation is a very important thing when you are
 DN> playing back 8MB/s video at the same time.  The product is called
 DN> SoundStage by Applied Magic Inc.  Currently all developement is focused
 DN> toward Video and Audio combined editing, although developer for stand
 DN> alone audio tools are welcome.

Ah ha. Sounds interesting. Personally I think we need a CyberSFX RTA system
and a relatively cheap multi channel sound card for the Amiga. Just this
with Octamed Sound Studio support would make the Amiga a killer audio
platform again.

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