Subject: Re: SoundSmith on a PC???
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: Sun, Nov 1, 1998 5‚48 
Message-id: <1dhucmn.8y0ywo1sjyg5xN@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjefbla@bconnex.net> wrote:

> "Mix rate", if it is what I think it is, is how fast the sounds can be
> mixed together by the audio hardware.  After all, we are trying to mix
> the audio output of 30 oscillators into 1 or 2 channels.  How this
> would affect the audio output, I'm not sure as I've never encountered
> this phrase before so haven't had time to think about it.  :-)

Yes, that is exactly what it must mean.  The IIgs is normally mixing all
32 oscillators, and the step time between oscillators is 1.2
microseconds.  There are 26041.67 samples output each second for each
oscillator.

If you managed to run two oscillators so that they stepped through
alternating samples in a waveform, you could double the output rate for
each stereo channel.

It isn't possible to reduce the number of active oscillators in normal
circumstances, because the last oscillator is used by the IIgs, probably
for refreshing the RAM in the DOC.

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David Empson
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