Re: sample based looping vs. delay looping

[Mark Hamburg <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>]

on 8/10/02 11:42 AM, Hedewa7@aol.com at Hedewa7@aol.com wrote:

> mark_hamburg@baymoon.com writes:
> 
>> Kim and Matthias can now explain why this isn't reasonable.
> ..... and, i hope they do, but:
> i suspect that the next edp-type thing from aurisis will hafta use a
> different processor.
> stereo would be nice, storage & recall would be nice, polyphonic 
>capability
> would be nice, but..... there are still *many, many* things possible in 
>the
> realm of 'real'-time audio manipulation.....
> best,
> dt / splattercell

As I noted, there are probably plenty of reasons why this isn't reasonable
from a hardware standpoint, but I figured that a stereo version of the EDP
could involve relatively few changes and would resolve probably the most
frequent complaint about the EDP -- i.e., what do you mean that to do 
stereo
I have to buy two of them and then not all of the features work unless I
play some other tricky games?

What might be a semi-reasonable approach long term would be to do a 
hardware
revision to support stereo (and an effects loop if one were feeling
ambitious) and go to a faster 680x0 processor keeping the software mostly
the same. That would then leave room for more significant software
enhancements in the future.

Kim can now explain why even this raises the engineering costs to the point
where it's hard to justify.

Mark