cp@UKC.AC.UK (03/06/90)
In a recent article tlimonce@drunivac.drew.edu wrote... >Amiga sound stores 8-bits for every "number" when it digitizes or plays >sound. A CD player uses 16-bits (or 18 ...depending on how you think >about it) per number. A CD player plays at 44.1MHz; this means that it >records 44.1 million numbers per second! Now you understand why a DSP >has to be able to do fast math. If you have an equation that will >lower a sound 2 octaves and you want to do it in real-time; you need to >do that equation 44.1 million times per second. A CD stores the sound data using 16 bits FULL STOP. The data is stored at a rate of *44.1 Khz* ie. 44,100 samples per second per channel, ie. 176,400 bytes per second. >Amiga Development Kit's price is unknown. This lets you compile, etc. >on the Amiga and download code to the DSP. It will include a .library >for accessing the DSP so that all languages can access it. 1/2 a CRAY >accessible from AmigaBASIC! Let us know.....! Errrmmmm.... as an extra interlestin thingy.... (-: There will be a DAT ( Digital Audio Tape ) system for the Amiga 'out soon'. Developed by yours truly.... What that will do is give you Gbytes of storage, approx. 2.5 Gbytes.... Lots and lots of usages again.... Don't want to say to much yet.... let you know soon. BUT DAT and DSP would be somin.... Hyper-Media --> next? Chris ( cp@uk.ac.ukc )