In a message of 20 Aug 96 Markell Moss wrote to me:
 MM> While I've never owned one (except this A500 I picked up at a garage
 MM> sale for $20 and have no good software for...) I've always admired the
 MM> Amiga  machines for their abilities in animation and sound. It's
 MM> unfortunate that their sound HASN'T kept up with the level of graphics
 MM> they've been upping.  They still use the basic 4-channel  22.05KHz 8-bit
 MM> sound chip they've ALWAYS used.  The days of the 4-channel MOD have long
 MM> passed.  :)  Even PC's are doing 32 and 64-channel tracker variants of
 MM> the MOD format in lush 16-bit stereo; irrelevant when you start
 MM> discussing MIDI though...  
 MM> I'm just surprised they didn't upgrade the stock sound chip....  I know
 MM> you can get cards and dongles that increase you to 16-bit sampling (over
 MM> how many channels?  I don't know.....) but I think they should have
 MM> taken audio a little more seriously.
 MM> My opinion only.  :)
Hmm.. Very interesting.. I agree, it gets.. annoying? If you have a midi 
expansion, there is no comparison.. And as far as your figures, those are not 
accurate... Here is the rundown of sound rates I can get:
Mixing buffer can be up to 32k
Mixing rate can be up to 58.0kHz
... Could be inaccurate, but that is what "Hippoplayer" tells me it can be 
mixed at with the current card and chipsets... 
Paul Taulborg
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