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To: etxdagr@tn.ericsson.se
Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA

In article <4i3r74$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se> you wrote:

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

: Ehh? What is wrong with having the samples stored in RAM? I think that
: the purpose of this card is to work as a sampler for composing music, 
: not for recording 16 realtime HD tracks.

The main purpose of this board in not for composing music (that is only 
one application).  It is designed for television and film production.
A 1 hour TV production with voice, music and foley tracks HAS to spooled of 
hard disk.  Only a certain number of tracks can fit at once thru a 
zorro-II bottle neck.


David Newman
Applied Magic Inc
ftp://ftp.cts.com/pub/dan/index.html