Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga

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From: Joern Plewka
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:04

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endres@ism.isys.net (Martin Endres) -> "Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga"
(14.03.1996)

> > >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.
> 
> And don't forget, that a fast CPU can MIX the tracks, too.
But normaly you need a fast CPU for other things than mixing sound;-(

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