#AMIGA-MUSIC
10-Oct-86 01:04:43
Sb: #AMIGA-MUSIC
Fm: Dave Haynie/C128 Land 76703,2047
To: Mark Hubbard 76576,1021
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The number of voices is really dependent on your program. The Amiga has
four hardware channels. An CD player has two (higher resolution, but
otherwise similar) channels. For simple tone generation, the Amiga can on
the fly combine several voices into each channel{_; I don't know of any
limit on this other than the speed of the CPU. For more complex sounds,
where the 68000 is busy trying to help make the sounds, you'll be able to
get even fewer voices, down to the point where you're just using each
channel for one voice. Going even further, the sound device can be set up
so that one channel modifys the other, resulting in two channels capable of
FM synthesis, like on a Yamaha DX keyboard. You basically trade voice
quality{_ and features for the number of voices. -Hazy