SuperPAULA - if you have experinece in amiga music please give feedback

[Cheeeky]

That answer lies not in what can you make the hardware do, but what the blend of software and hardware can do.

basically for the pro/semi-pro it is PCI Cards and AHI drivers, USB Midi should definitily have drivers written but this is all out of the scope of your question. Yet in pure digital the line between what is pro and what is not is blurred...


My Personal preference:

sp/dif or optical out should be a serious consideration.

basic upgrade for paula standard should be:

8 channels

left right assignable

8/16/24 modes

forget the centring - anything like that is stereo and played at different volumes - I think people are getting confused by dolby surround - yes it has a centre channel, but this has an independent output and requires a compatible amplifier system.

How may outputs are you thinking of putting on the board (could we have 6 mono outputs - assignable?) **

What I would really like to see is a paula mode + toccata emulation mode for 6 channel output with existing software, but this requires writing a toccata emulation library - a stable one!

** extra upgrade mode would definaltly be 32 channel mode set up as above but there needs to be an AHI driver created for this to work with existing software (I still want a working toccata library also :-) ).

So, without a toccata library or AHI driver the thing is pretty much useless to use with existing software - if these can't be written then stick with 4 channels but with the upgrades that you have already specified and see what happens with 3rd parties... We can plug in PCI cards.

on a side note - I have considered DSP stuff (my Flipper is great), but once again a serious lack of software in this department will hold this back and may be a wasted feature addition - Personally I would serious consider the ability to add Cell Clusters (oh yes!) to the system.

[Cheeeky]

As the sample rate can be any value I understand that Digital-Out would be complicated as it won't sync - but would it not be possible for the hardware to enable the digital out when a syncronizable play rate is chosen? such as :
8,000
9,600
11,025
12,000
16,000
22,050
24,000
32,000
44,100
48,000
88,200
176,400
192,000

I've never heard of ADAT Lightpipe and don't have any equipment that would support it... thing is, it doesn't make the music any better ;-)