Paula used in professional audio equipment?

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Paula is complex beast that does a whole lot more than just Audio... It would have been/is much cheaper and easier to use a dedicated highspeed 8bit (or even 16bit) DAC, which would then have multiplexed to give the required number of channels...


Paula isn't like the audio chips of those "lesser" machines

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Don't know the facts, but considering there's nothing special about Paula audio at all, I somehow doubt it (might be wrong .

Basically You are right... Paula is little more than 4 8-bit DACs, which have a fair amount of "colour" due to their implementation, but really a Synthesizer designer could put a simple 8resistor ladder and a single opamp in place of Paula for a fraction of the cost and probably better quality :-/