- i.e. Paula audio for that distinctive sound, and trackers. Otherwise, what's the point?
Could anyone comment on this ? What makes the Paula audio distinctive ?
Surely its only as good as the sampling hardware and techniques used to capture the sounds?
The limitations of Paula (number of channels, max sampling rat, bitrate etc) can be done with any modern tracker or DAW .
I get the "SID" chip thing being analog in nature its hard to get emulation right - but paula's audio is basically all digital.
I composed music on the Amiga for years , mostly using soundstudio - using the stock hardware and a midi interface. I got some great sounds out of the machine and knew a fair few techniques for getting the best sound quality. (perhaps someone recognises my nick (polyp) )
But I never once thought the Amiga had a "unique or distinctive sound" (other than the limitations of 8bit samples) - I always thought the sound hardware could have been better - i wanted a successor to SID.
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