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To: Savoirman who wrote (9230)	1/30/1998 2:11:00 AM
From: Fred Mah	Read Replies (2) of 13925

Savoirman says: "My understanding of MIDI/Sampled sounds is that they are not mutually exclusive. To transmit over the internet: 1. Audio CD sound is like trying to send pianos/guitars over the phone line, bit by painstaking bit, but 2. MIDI is like telling someone with pianos and guitars at home exactly how to play these instruments (if they have lousy instruments the music will sound lousy)." These are correct. "3. Wavetable synthesis is the way people stock up on their musical instruments by having a "table" of instruments at home. These can be either sampled (using small portions of real instrumental sounds) or using FM synthesis (bashing pure sine waves together to produce something similar to real instrumental sounds). Now people like Creaf have extended that to physical modelling - not just recreating the instruments but also the very space in which those instruments played. This requires trememdous processing power which the EMU10k1 affords (with the capacity to process more than 1 billion instructions per second)." Not exactly true, in that Creaf only distributes software that performs physical modeling which is programmed by a totally different company. The 10k1 has not been claimed to be capable of generating physical model instruments. The 10k1 is just a more advanced "wavetable" chip that should be able to bring professional quality audio and wavetable to the PC.

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