Floppy drive sound vs sound emulation

mark_k · 07 February 2012, 20:49

Hi,

Floppy drive sound emulation seems to only be active when sound emulation is set to Enabled. So there's no drive sound when sound emulation is disabled or "disabled, but emulated". Is that intentional?

I'd find it useful to have floppy drive sound emulation without Amiga sound hardware emulation. When Amiga sound is not needed, disable it to reduce CPU use, but use floppy sound for e.g. hearing that something is loading and hasn't crashed, or that a program has finished loading if you have minimised WinUAE.

Supamax · 08 February 2012, 01:49

Interesting consideration

Toni Wilen · 09 February 2012, 16:32

Floppy sound is mixed with Paula audio stream. Not good enough reason to change this, sorry.

mark_k · 09 February 2012, 21:28

Okay, I'll try to think up some more reasons for having separate floppy & Paula sound...

If you have decent external speakers connected to your laptop, you could configure floppy sound to come from the laptop internal speakers, leaving the external speakers to handle Paula sound. Kind of like a real Amiga where the floppy sound comes from the computer and Paula sound from the TV/monitor.

If you're recording Amiga music to disk (WAV or MP3) that could also be useful since you probably wouldn't want floppy sounds in the recording.

By keeping Paula and floppy sounds separate, you could let Windows handle mixing them when necessary. If the sound card hardware can efficiently mix streams, that could reduce the WinUAE CPU load slightly.

That's pretty much all I can think of for now.

amilo3438 · 14 November 2016, 11:36

Using headphones it feels that the output sound is significantly muted when the floppy sound is enabled ! (maybe separate audio stream would solve this problem)

07 February 2012, 20:49	#1
mark_k Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Posts: 3,340	Floppy drive sound vs sound emulation Hi, Floppy drive sound emulation seems to only be active when sound emulation is set to Enabled. So there's no drive sound when sound emulation is disabled or "disabled, but emulated". Is that intentional? I'd find it useful to have floppy drive sound emulation without Amiga sound hardware emulation. When Amiga sound is not needed, disable it to reduce CPU use, but use floppy sound for e.g. hearing that something is loading and hasn't crashed, or that a program has finished loading if you have minimised WinUAE.

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08 February 2012, 01:49	#2
Supamax Da Digger :) Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Monza, Italy Posts: 2,822	Interesting consideration

09 February 2012, 16:32	#3
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,510	Floppy sound is mixed with Paula audio stream. Not good enough reason to change this, sorry.

09 February 2012, 21:28	#4
mark_k Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Posts: 3,340	Okay, I'll try to think up some more reasons for having separate floppy & Paula sound... If you have decent external speakers connected to your laptop, you could configure floppy sound to come from the laptop internal speakers, leaving the external speakers to handle Paula sound. Kind of like a real Amiga where the floppy sound comes from the computer and Paula sound from the TV/monitor. If you're recording Amiga music to disk (WAV or MP3) that could also be useful since you probably wouldn't want floppy sounds in the recording. By keeping Paula and floppy sounds separate, you could let Windows handle mixing them when necessary. If the sound card hardware can efficiently mix streams, that could reduce the WinUAE CPU load slightly. That's pretty much all I can think of for now.

14 November 2016, 11:36	#5
amilo3438 Amiga 500 User Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: EU Posts: 1,504	Using headphones it feels that the output sound is significantly muted when the floppy sound is enabled ! (maybe separate audio stream would solve this problem)

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