From: testarne@athena.mit.edu (Thad E Starner)
Subject: Re: Virtual Sound
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 03:26:44 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology



In article <16816@milton.u.washington.edu> xhost91!lance@uunet.UU.NET (Lance Nor
skog) writes:

>On the subject:

>I brought up MIT's Csound package under 386 UNIX, and it takes
>1-30 times real-time to compute scorefiles.  That is, 1 minute
>of 8K/s samples takes 1-30 minutes to generate.  Quadraphonic or
>3D placement will take a little longer.  (Now, if only I could
....
>They claim a Sun-4 can generate in real-time.  It has stereo and
>quad sound by panning volume; this is cheesy.  Real placement needs
>phase control.  

Can vouch for the sun-4 stuff.  The stuff I do was the original basis
of the claim.  I run a virtual drumset (polhemus, hidden line removal,
etc.) and still have enough time to run csound real time option for
the sound (on a SparcStation 1).  In general sun 4's can handle
csound real-time generation stuff easily (8k, mono).   

                                        Thad Starner