(If anyone wants to see the details on how the EMU8000 works and how complex The MMX technology can be 3-10 times faster, though - that may be a realĬhance for software-mixing players. And what's even worse, we still don't have any reverb and chorus. This means that the sole multiplication would consume all cycles on a P120 Without effects, the sound is dry and flat.Īny good effect processing requires many additional complex computations. The software-mixing players usually can't afford such smooth volume ramping.Ĥ. starting/terminating the notes and changing the volume without any clicks Sufficient sample RAM and any 386 or better computer.ģ. With AMP, all you need is a Sound Blaster AWE32 compatible sound card with Sound in 30 channels at the 44kHz mixing rate with a software-mixing player.Īnd it would eat most of the CPU processing power. You would need a very fast Pentium machine to get just a simply interpolated mixing at 44.1 kHz frequency allows output frequencies up to 22 kHz Preserving the high frequencies contained in the original waveform.Ģ. Therefore such interpolators can't remove the unwanted artifacts while Those basic mathematical algorithms are not suitable for signal processing, Magic and meaningless names like FFT, FOI, IDO, 32-bit, spline etc.). Linear or rarely three-point quadratic (or they are unknown - hidden behind

Their interpolators (if any) are mostly two-point

This allows the removal of signal distortion that is so typical for all high quality pitch-shifting using a patented dynamic four-point Performs the following tasks in hardware (that means with no CPU load):ġ. The major advantage of AMP is the direct use of the EMU8000 synthesizer that I'm sure AWE32 emulation would be available in dosbox if programming it was not so hard. You will understand what I am talking about.

Compare module playback using DOS module player for SB16 on AWE32 and then AMP on the same AWE32 with 2MB RAM or more. Nothing can beat this player in terms of quality (including today's windows players). Most of them was for SB16 DAC, but the one: AMP (awe module player by Lada Kopecky) used EMU8k synth for hardware mixing. I checked many module players to find the best quality. I used to play Amiga music modules (*.mod files, 8bit 11kHz samples inside) on this card. The difference is only heard when game/program REALLY uses EMU8K synth. Many games shows AWE32 as playback device which is simply alias to SB16 driver. Moe, I think you try to compare SB16 DAC with AWE32 DAC which are both the same. I would like to see AWE32 emulation for games using EMU8k features (sample upload which enables HW mix with sound interpolation to give smooth, clean sound) Swaaye I also think that there is nothing better for midi playback than Roland or Yamaha. For DOSBOX just use the perfectly capable MPU-401 wrapper and run either a Soundfont on a SBLive or higher, or just with DirectX's semi-sweet Roland softsynth. Stick with Roland, Yamaha, or Ensoniq for your retro needs. Too bad they didn't make a DOS soundfont loader, so you have to play games in Win9x and hope they'll run ok. Load it up with Synergi 8M, or some other good font, and find a game that will actually support the card, and it actually sounds good. 😀 Sound cards - from best to worst.ĪWE's only advantage was those cool 30-pin RAM slots. Lets not compare the pristine Roland SCD-15 to anything from Creative. Then listen to the Soundscape Elite, and think about how Soundscape Elite cost $160 while the AWE32 was around $250. It sucked in quality, and the DOS protected mode compatibility nightmares were worthy of some award in marketing stupidity (put a real MPU-401 interpreter on your chinzy card Creative.)īTW, I've recorded my AWE32 playing Dark Forces thru its ROM set to help you all get your ears bleeding. It's just another wavetable synth, and it was a board with one of the worst sound sets ever produced. Why in hell would you want emulated AWE32? That's just dumb.

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