Hello Colin,
>From: Colin G Piggot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: New hardware Coming Soon
>
>I think (with all this talk of DACs on printer ports) i better
>reveal to you now that a sound card should be emerging for the
>sam early next year, hopefully middle to end of Feburary.
Are you getting anxious about someone releasing a parallel-DAC
before your card is out, taking you all potential customers away?!
;-)))))
Well perhaps it would also be useful to talk about the OS Ian Spencer
is developing in Germany for his SAM-HD interface, so perhaps
Simon speeds up his work on his HD-IF and OS .... ;-)))
>The board is called 'Quazar Surround' as (when you have 2 pairs speakers
>plugged in) it will give SURROUND sound, or just stereo if you only
>connect 1 pair.
>It has six 8 bit sound channels which gives great sound (believe me...
>it sounds awesome! Even when playing old 4 bit samples through it
>sound cleaner).
What do ya mean, does it have a digital 6 channel 8bit mixer
on board?????? If yes it would mean that it is like a little
Gravis Ultrasound for the SAM....
(Even the Soundblaster cards do have only 2 digital audio channels..)
Which is the maximum frequency supported by the card playing
al 6 channels and which is the maximum frequency the SAM
is capable to send?
(I just calculated that 6 channels 8 bit would mean 130K/second...)
>The prototype IS working, and has been for about 3 weeks now,
>software is being written at the moment, such things like full sample
>manipulation studios, sample players, and of course the screen is on!
Very, very interesting, 'though I personally would use it only
for playback not for sampling, the quality of the 16bit 48Khz ADCs
of the GUS are unbeatable, and if I convert 16bit sound to 8bit
it still sounds much better than anythink sampled at 8 bit ...
>More info later, plus all the details of how to program the card....
I can't wait... ;-)
>Colin Piggot.
>(Megatron of Entropy)
Bye,
Arne
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