| From: | Victor I. Haaz |
| Date: | 26 Aug 2000 at 15:30:47 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Ami Sound System ? |
From: Matthew J Fletcher <amimjf@connectfree.co.uk>
>Hi,.
>
>>>I don't know A3D, but I know the audio team is working to get sound done
>>>the way it should be and the way most others don't do it - i.e. right.
>
>As regards the sound subsystem for the new amiga i have a few buzzwords to
>through around, i hope they are already in the spec (code ?), but here they are
>anyway.
>
>Plugin modules for dsp effects that can either be be executed in hardware or
>emulated in software (like opengl does), so games sound the same whatever sound
>hardware you have, but with a reduction in performance. And of course an option
>to turn them off...
Yes, I hope a good plugin system fits well in the "right way" definition. It's good
to have the big names aboard, but what I always hated in the PC is the lack of
intervention possibility to such subsystems. Would be good if independent
developers could make own effect modules, fitted in at any, or at least, at some,
point of the audio (and video, BTW) system... So, I hope Ami will be very
modular. (Then I could release my imagination... :) )
Regards,
Victor I. Haaz
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