#: 16633 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    08-Oct-92  00:54:43
Sb: sound gen.
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227


Kevin,
      I just had an idea today, that I thought I would throw at you and see
what you think. You know how I have been bugging you about a SS_Tone syscall
for the MM/1, well maybe one isn't needed. I was thinking about the IFF sound
calls,(SS_Play & SS_Record), and how they take analog input, digitize it for
storage in memory or take that stored digitized info and convert it to analog
for output. The thing is, that at one point in the recording or playing process
this audio info is just a bunch of bytes, set to a particular value. With this
in mind, couldn't we just have a sound editor type program that would generate
the frequency, amplitude and wave shape data for the sounds, and output the
result into an IFF sound file.
 The main point going for doing it this way is that the processor wouldn't be
bogged down trying to generate these sounds, and it could take its own sweet
time in building up the IFF sound file.
  This idea sounds so simple to me that I must be over looking something.
  Has this idea already been kicked around ? Its so simple that someone must
have come up with it already, I just havn't heard any mention of it.

Larry