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Codetapper · 03 October 2013, 10:04

I know very little about audio but just wondering if any software ever "cheated" by having anything played on one of the channels having an identical sampling rate/frequency to allow very fast mixing?

If the sound effects for a game were all tuned to the same frequency as whatever else you played on that channel, presumably you could do something simple like add the 2 samples together and divide by 2 (with a shift), or maybe just use the highest value? You'd get 5 channels that way, very easy computationally and you could "merge" in sound effects with the music as long as it was a drum or something on that channel.

Would that work?

03 October 2013, 10:04	#21
Codetapper 2 contact me: email only! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Auckland / New Zealand Posts: 3,187	I know very little about audio but just wondering if any software ever "cheated" by having anything played on one of the channels having an identical sampling rate/frequency to allow very fast mixing? If the sound effects for a game were all tuned to the same frequency as whatever else you played on that channel, presumably you could do something simple like add the 2 samples together and divide by 2 (with a shift), or maybe just use the highest value? You'd get 5 channels that way, very easy computationally and you could "merge" in sound effects with the music as long as it was a drum or something on that channel. Would that work?