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In article <4i7b5f$qhu@news3.cts.com>, dan@cts.com (David Newman) writes:
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>To: etxdagr@tn.ericsson.se
>Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
>Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA
>
>In article <4i3r74$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.

Are you really sure about this? What do you Delfina guys say?

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

/Dan