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PCI Sound Posted on 30-Sep-2017 21:16:38
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Am i missing something or is pci sound on AMiga with 030 a waste of time i get better performance with Paula output. Sound also has a bit of a lisp to it. Prisma megamix might be in order Last edited by g01df1sh on 30-Sep-2017 at 09:17 PM.
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 30-Sep-2017 21:24:40
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What AHI mode are you using? My Sound blaster 16 sound fine.
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 30-Sep-2017 21:24:43
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was using hd-rec multitrack even via pci sb on mediator to record and playback guitars realtime. it was 060 though. dunno about 030 however. might limit things. prisma wont work for ahi stuff afaik. it isnt system transparent. at least not what concerns popular api. it will allow you to play compressed audio streams such as mp3 with dedicated players. it would allow you to play stereo channel or background music with dedicated apps or games, if there were any, maybe save for one or two.. but it wont influence the general productivity of the system with its legacy software. |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 30-Sep-2017 21:26:45
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tried 8bit and 16bit
What player are you using?
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 1-Oct-2017 15:46:30
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What are you trying to do with it? Modules? Single track streams?
In the case of modules that would be slow compared to Paula, since chunks of audio would need to be mixed together, sent to AHI, which then converts it in the driver to the souind card format.
Single stereo tracks should be fine as there is less overhead.
That said, Audio Evolution was able mix two 16-bit stereo tracks in realtime using AHI on my 030@40. But the result would have been scaled down to 8-bit and sent to Paula. Or the 14-bit Cyber driver. So different hardware output. |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 1-Oct-2017 15:51:04
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Just play a simple mp3. Having lots of issues sometimes it will play test sound in AHI somentimes not. Mp3 play back via amiga amp is crap to the point it stutters so bad you loose all mouse control and need to reboot. _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 2-Oct-2017 8:53:07
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The problem isn't the sound card, it's that your CPU isn't powerful enough to decode an MP3 properly. You need an 060 minimum to decode MP3s at reasonable quality. A PCI sound card just gives you a way of playing and recording sound at full 16-bit, 48kHz quality - the Amiga still has to process that information, and in the case of compressed audio, it just isn't good enough. Try play some uncompressed audio, e.g. AIFF or WAV format tracks and you'll see. _________________ RobTheNerd.com | InstallerGen | SMBMounter | Atoms-X |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 2-Oct-2017 12:56:50
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I use Amiga AMP v3.22. Keep in mind an 030 wont be enough for good quality playback in stereo. A Prism card would be a good piece of hardware to have.
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 2-Oct-2017 14:26:41
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Only problem I have with prisma is how to mount it in A1200 ?
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 2-Oct-2017 14:28:21
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If cpu is not good then how can my Paula chip do it perfectly fine ?
Paula at 128bit mp3 plays fine
Same files using sound card is a joke... _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 2-Oct-2017 14:53:40
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It can't possibly be playing it fine. An 030 cannot mathematically decode an MP3 like that in realtime. What might be happening is that you're playing a reduced quality version, and it doesn't sound as bad through Paula. Maybe you're playing it at 11025Hz. Maybe it's 8-bit mono. But I 100% guarantee you're not hearing the full quality of the MP3 - and it's got nothing to do with Paula or a sound card. AHI has a small overhead that makes little difference, you simply don't have the horsepower. But really, try my suggestion. Rip an audio track from CD to an AIFF file and play it through the soundcard. See if that works. _________________ RobTheNerd.com | InstallerGen | SMBMounter | Atoms-X |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 2-Oct-2017 18:35:40
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PCI sound is seriously doing my head in cane get even test beep to work now. Card shows in pciinfo but no audio _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 0:55:17
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If its a tower, you can use the PCI backplate, if it is a desktop you can use the nice rear trapdoor adapter.
Hope that helps?
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 2:48:43
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Before I got an 060 I would put the music on a CD and connect the CDDA out on the CDROM drive to my sound card. Sounded great.
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 8:11:27
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That's for the ports board what about the main prisms board that would normally plug in zorro slot. I have PCI _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 12:22:22
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Your Sound card should have an Auxiliary or CD header. I have my Amiga Audio hooked up to the AUX header and the DVD ROM audio connected to the CD header, works great.
I use a Soundblaster16.
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 13:06:03
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HI
I cant get the sound card to work at the moment so cd audio out is not going to work until I can get its basic functions to work.. Its seen in Pciinfo and at one stage I did get it to play test beep in AHI but now I get nothing. I'm using Ahi 6 and sb128.audio
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 13:17:07
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As I already said, the soundcard mixer does not depend on AHI to work. You could have two different issues. Try the Mediator's Mixer utility and see if it works. AHI can have separate issues but CD audio (and mixing with Amiga audio) should still work in those cases, and would be a good indication that the card itself is working.
As for the Prisma, it would be tricky perhaps, but not impossible to use in a tower. You'll just need to fashion some sort of bracket. In this case, the version for a desktop A1200 would be preferable as it is fully insulated, thus protecting it from contact with the tower case. _________________ RobTheNerd.com | InstallerGen | SMBMounter | Atoms-X |
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 13:34:11
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This is from one of Epsilons blogs
Below that is the Indivision AGA MK2 DVI out (for native Amiga output graphics), Audio/Video module card with RGB port (not used) native Amiga RCA audio out - which is fed back into the case to be mixed via AUX IN into the PCI sound card output. The PCI sound card has a DSP that can decode MP3's in hardware, meaning the 060 is not needed to playback MP3's!
His sound card is the same as mine. So is he wrong or is my 030 not used to decode the mp3's ?
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Re: PCI Sound Posted on 3-Oct-2017 14:02:01
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If the DSP on the soundcard is decoding the MP3, then the 68030 is not decoding the MP3. That setup is very different different however - it does not use AHI for audio output, instead using a *.mhi or *mpeg.device driver. I have never seen either of these drivers for a PCI card, so I'm not sure if it was wishful thinking on Epsilon's part. They do exist for various native Amiga sound cards however, but I'd be very interested to hear of any DSP card that works over PCI.
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