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Offline Thorham

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Re: Amiga sound playback routine/format questions
« on: August 10, 2010, 05:38:46 PM »
Quote from: bubblebobble;574163
But we are talking about a hack that adds two audio signals to resemble 14bit. Because the playback is far from beeing perfect/linear etc., the result is not perfect 14bit. I would say the noise from artefacts is somehow comparable with something like 12bit.
Paula 14 bit sound becomes quite a lot better when you use a proper calibration table and properly down sampled audio files. No calibration: lowered quality. No proper down sampling: lowered quality. Add these two together, and it won't sound very good.

Furthermore, it's not really a hack, because Paula is a 14 bit D/A converter ;)
 

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Re: Amiga sound playback routine/format questions
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2010, 10:41:13 AM »
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If Paula is a 14bit DA Converter, what is the "calibration" for then?
Paula is 14 bit because both sample and volume data are handled by Paula.

The calibration part is only needed to compensate for the non-linearities in the audio hardware, probably the analog parts, but I'm not sure. Seems reasonable (all Paulas are the same?).
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