synthesys of amiga
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what kind of synthy method does the amiga uses? is it wave synthy?
is it like any kind of pc sound board?
The Amiga uses sampled sounds. It is like a digital sound recorder and it
creates different pitches by effectively changing the playback speed.
There are programs avaialable for the Amiga which can synthesise sounds
and store the results as a sample. There are plenty of sampled sounds in
the public domain, and hardware to record your own samples is fairly
cheap.
so you mean the amiga uses wave synthy like the pc sound board gravis
ultrasound?
I don't know anything about PC sound boards. Does anyone else here ?
The AMIGA uses a WAVEFORM TABLE LOOKUP method. The sound is an actual. Sample
of the REAL sound (like in PROFESSIONAL equipment!) All the clone sound cards
that are cheap (and i mean price wise) are FM Synthsis. They created the sounds
on the fly. (Just about every 16 sound card that samples on the clones does (8
bit sampling) but does 16 bit playback. Thats like digitizing a picture at
12bit and displaying 24, a waste!
Plus clones are locked at 11khz 22khz or 44hkz as a general rule. Where as an
AMIGA can digitize up to 48khz (This is the DAT sample rate) For the price of a
GOOD (not professional or great) clone sound card. You could get a TOCCATA 16
and an AMIGA to put it in!
Plus Blue Ribbon SoundWorks has the Ultimate Music Software tools. NOTHING on
anyother platform can touch Bars&Pipes Pro, SuperJam! or PatchMeister. Nor the
Support they give!
I'm strictly a layperson on this subject, but I'll give it a go: The
Amigas come standard with 8-bit digital sound output, expressable as four
discrete channels. The range in output is partly a function of software
and partly a function of the speed of your particular machine, but it's
possible, for instance, to sample near-CD quality audio up to 44khz. The
Amiga's native output is not like the FM synthesis type of output
typically found on PC sound boards.
Typical Amiga sound files offer stereo output but that's not a
requirement. Software tricks can boost the four-channel output to eight or
more channels. You can add 12-bit or 16-bit audio boards that provide
near- or full-CD audio quality and many more simultaneous channels.
In my experience, the native Amiga sound output tends to sound better than
typical synthesized FM type cards available for PCs. I'm aware of
utilities to let both types of computer recognize audio output from the
other — e.g., .WAV files to the Amiga, .MOD files to the PC. Beyond that,
my technical knowledge is nil. Hopefully, someone else can help out if you
need to know more.
i know the fm synthy can not be compared to the amiga but how about the wave
synty? those are instrument samples achieved at 44.1 khz and at 16-bit quality.