Digital designs?

[Martin Fay]

> Look I just can't resist this. On a P166, TripleDAT, under win95 can; Play
> back 16 stereo tracks whilst processing them indavidually or together in the
> mix, with, compresson (Soft knee), Gating (Soft knee) equalization and
> reverb and still have time to sync the sequencer running concurrently on the
> same platform driving 4 sound cards. And if need be, process and mix
> something from the real world. All in Real time. All with quality that would
> make a DP/4 owner spit shit. Oh and I should point out that it can do this
> under win3.11 as well. Makes little difference. And this is all done by the
> CPU. So 5 voices on a K6 @ 200 would seem a little lame to me. Or they'd
> wanna be 5 amazingly complex voices.

Doesn't TripleDAT gain a touch of a boost from the DSP on the bundled 
soundcard? I'm pretty sure I couldn't get near that with Cubase VST 
(or whatever else)...and yes, the voices are fairly complicated, more 
so than a JP8000/Nord with full semi-modular mod routings. I doubt 
this is close to what you _could_ get with carefully hand-optimised 
assembler, but I was attempting to debunk the argument that a 95 box 
couldn't do more than emulate a monosynth...


Martin

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