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To: Fred Mah who wrote (9231)	1/30/1998 2:50:00 AM
From: Savoirman	Read Replies (1) of 13925

Hi Fred, interesting point I said: "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)." You said: 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. My response: EMU (I'll assume this is what you meant when you said "a totally different company" correct me if I'm wrong) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Creaf. This company provides the Emu 3D Positional Audio used in AWE64 etc, and also will provide E2M (E squared M) which is what they call Environmental Modelling to be used in SB Live! From Creative's brochure it seems EMU10K1 is not just for wavetable processing, it's designed to take the load off the CPU with more than 2m transistors (processing more than 1 billion instructions per second). Other features include advanced hardware accelerated digital effects processing and 8-point interpolation. I'm not entirely sure this is correct (EMU10k1 may after all be just a better wavetable chip) but it looks like it's more like a sound-specific CPU or sorts (DSP?).

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