RE: Cinematronics/Sega universal sound board...

G'day Clay (and folks)

What about a hybrid solution that could use one of those newer chips
(help me here, Joe) that cans simulate simple analog circuits? I can't
believe the Cinematronics circuits for background noises were that
complicated. Maybe even have a dual speaker approach to cheaply solve
"mixing problems" between the two systems for generating sounds?

               Steven S Ozdemir
               sso@plpt.com (my company renamed itself in Feb)
               sso@dsc.com (good for a few more months)
               ozdemir@xenon.stanford.edu (permanent...weekly)

> ----------
> From: Clay Cowgill[SMTP:ClayC@diamondmm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 1998 2:40 PM
> To: 'vectorlist@spies.com'
> Cc: Clay Cowgill
> Subject: RE: Cinematronics/Sega universal sound board...
>
>
> > At first glance this does seem to be an elegant solution to the
> > simpler
> > sounds. I question how well it would handle continuous shifting
> > background sounds like in Star Castle. But hey, if the solution
> even
> > handles 2/3's of Cinematronics sounds that alot closer than we are
> now
> > to a universal sound board!
> >
> Yeah, any of those long filter/frequency sweep sounds are hard to do
> with samples. You could do it with a low-rate sample (maybe switch
> the
> 6295 to 8KHz mode with an I/O line), but you'd probably get pops on
> the
> loop point since you have to tell the 6295 to "play" the sample over
> and
> over at the right rate.
>
> Still though, I agree-- if I could have the vast majority of sounds
> for
> a multigame with a single ~$30 card I'd probably be willing to
> overlook
> any little "inaccuracies". ;-) I might try to get a quote on the
> 6295...
>
> -Clay
>
Received on Thu Apr 23 14:51:18 1998