From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000 & HYPE! -Reply to Jerry Shekkel
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10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG) writes:
>
>>Digitized music *does* sound like it's being played by real musical
>>instruments, but its quality (clarity and richness) depends heavily
>>upon several things, such as frequency and sample resolution.  CD's play 
>>16-bit 44.1KHz stereo music.  MODs utilize only 8-bit samples, and the
>>frequency is what, 22.1KHz?  This is *not* CD quality, even if we ignore the
>>fact that MODs are compressed, sampling only one note per instrument.
>
>Gosh, I can't hear anything higher than 19 kHz, so you and the dogs must be 
>real happy with the high pitched 44kHz screeching :-)
>

I see the smiley, but I wonder if you understood that I was talking about
sampling frequency, not pitch.

>
>Those Amiga mods 
>being played on the IBM don't suddenly have their samples resampled at 
>16bits!
>

No, and that's why I said that I wish there were a higher-quality MOD
format -- one with 16-bit samples at least.

>>
>>The SoundBlaster, as well as the newer sound cards, have digital channels
>>as well as FM channels.  Yes, they can play your exalted MODs just fine.
>
>But SoundBlaster doesn't sound very good.  The Amiga sound sounds much 
>better.  The newer sounds cards (for many different platforms) are much 
>nicer.
>

I hear no difference between MODs played on the Amiga and the SoundBlaster.
Maybe you heard a defective SB?

>
>I like the Roland (something or other) on the IBM.
>

Why?  After all, it's just a Beep Generator(tm)!  Seriously, the Roland is
a fantastic synthesizer, but it has no digital record/playback.

>
>Look, you could have a driver for your Super-Duper-X-Hi-VGA but if all it 
>did was to give you a CGA display, what's the point?  Using the features and 
>just supporting the card are two totally different things!
>

I see what you're saying, but again, when I said "explicit support for",
what I meant to say was, "support for the special features of".

>
>What do you mean by REAL digitized music?
>

Compact discs.

>
>My CD's sound better than most of 
>the Mods I've heard, except for some real big one meg mods.  Get the CD "
>Hats" or "A Walk Across the Rooftops" by the Blue Nile, they you lots of 
>samplers and stuff.  It's probably the best combined digital and accoustic 
>music I've heard.
>

Are talking about the same thing?  I thought we were talking about sound
quality.

>
>Well, there's not much difference between MODS and real? digitized music if 
>an Amiga MOD can make it onto the music charts.
>

When did this happen?

>
>Jim Fang - Bachelor of Economics (3) / B.E (3) .-_|\        Snail Mail
>
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