@anyone who knows
The talk about panning register, and using 2 channels with volume to create your own panning solution is an interesting one.
Is it always true that a voice/channel is hardwired to output to just one speaker? Classic Amiga hardware was this way. Is new hardware this way? Is the FPGA board used for NatAmi this way? Imagine if you had 16 voices, but what speaker they came out on (literally, which RCA connector on the back of your Amiga) depended on this panning register. Thus you would only need 1 voice to be generated or played, but this output is sent to potentially both channels, but with various resistance on each channel to effect a reduction in volume, to effect panning effects.
ie
100% left 0% right (register = 1000)
75% left 25% right (register = 0100)
50% left 50% right (register = 0000)
25% left 75% right (register = 0010)
0% left 100% right (register = 0001)
Only with more resolution than that. (say the 7 or 8 bits suggested in previous posts)
tiffers
