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On Amiga 1000 ( and first Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 model ), the power LED had no relation to the filter's status, a wire needed to be manually soldered between pins on the sound chip to disable the filter.
* Sound: TIA video and sound chip, same as the 2600.
** Optional POKEY sound chip on cartridge for improved sounds.
To ensure software developers had an economical means of producing better sound than TIA, GCC had originally planned to make a low-cost, high performance sound chip, GUMBY, which could also be placed in 7800 cartridges to enhance its sound capabilities further.
When operating in “ 2600 ” mode to play Atari 2600 titles, the 7800 uses a Television Interface Adapter ( TIA ) chip to generate graphics and sound.
Other early forms include " chipmuck " and " chipminck ," and in the 1830s they were also referred to as " chip squirrels ," probably in reference to the sound they make.
The ColecoVision contains the same CPU and graphics chip as the MSX and Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000 but the MSX contains a different sound chip, the AY-3-8910.
ColecoVision shares the same CPU and a sound chip with Sega Master System, also a similar but inferior graphics chip.
# Telstar Colortron ( model 6135, 1978 ): Four Pong variants, in color, built in sound, fixed paddles, uses AY-3-8510 chip.
The sound and floppy controller chip, Paula, remained unchanged from the OCS design.
It even offered, via an additional AY-3-8910 sound chip inside the ECS module and an optional 49-key Music Synthesizer keyboard, the possibility of turning the Intellivision into a multi-voice synthesizer which could be used to play or learn music.
A sound chip is always included on the motherboard, to allow sound output without the need for any extra components.
The Apple IIGS used a digital sound chip designed for the Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer, and later models used a custom sound system and upgraded processors, which drove other companies to improve their own offerings.
A custom video chipset allowed the system to display 4, 096 colors and 380 individual sprites onscreen simultaneously, while the onboard Yamaha YM2610 sound chip gave the system 15 channels of sound with seven channels reserved specifically for digital sound effects.
Paula is primarily the audio chip, with 4 independent hardware-mixed 8-bit PCM sound channels, each of which supports 65 volume levels ( no sound to maximum volume ) and sample rates from roughly 20 Hz to almost 29 kHz.

sound and named
The local Ojibwa named the settlement kaw-goosh-kaw-nick, after the sound of Allen's sawmill.
The ratio of the flow speed to the speed of sound was named the Mach number after Ernst Mach, who was one of the first to investigate the properties of supersonic flow which included Schlieren photography techniques to visualize the changes in density.
“ Let the Music Play ”, by Shannon, is often named as the genre's first hit, and its sound, called " The Shannon Sound ," as the foundation of the genre.
One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named " Gnomus " ( Latin for " The Gnome "), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.
The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian " chinanto / mnigs " which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan " tzjin-anthony-ks " which kills cows at a hundred paces ; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
A young harmonicist named Marion " Little Walter " Jacobs revolutionized the instrument by playing the harmonica with a microphone ( typically a " Bullet " microphone marketed for use by radio taxi dispatchers cupped in his hands with the harmonica, giving it a " punchy " mid-range sound that can be heard above radio static, or an electric guitar ).
Marrow enjoyed the single's sound and delivery, as well as its vague references to gang life, although the real life gang, Park Side Killers, was not named in the song.
The iklwa-so named because of the sucking sound it made when withdrawn from a human body-with its long ( c. 25 cm in ) and broad blade was an invention of Shaka that superseded the older thrown ipapa ( so named because of the " pa-pa " sound it made as it flew through the air ).
A few extra words were named similar to known BASIC sound, video and tape commands, as behavior was the same.
His father Lamech named him nûaḥ ( the final ḥ is a more guttural sound than the English h ), saying, " This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
In English, for example, there is the universal fastener which is named for the onomatopoeic of the sound it makes: the zip ( in the UK ) or zipper ( in the U. S .).
He named it after the sound that sonar makes, since its methodology is similar to sonar's echo location.
Squire and Couzens started a new band, The Fireside Chaps, with bassist Gary " Mani " Mounfield, later recruiting a singer named Kaiser and drummer Chris Goodwin, and changing their name to The Waterfront ( after the film On the Waterfront ), their sound influenced by 1960s groups and contemporary bands such as Orange Juice.
Block Island and its sound were named after him.
The effect was used in the 1930s on " Sugar Blues " by commercial Dixieland trumpeter Clyde McCoy, who built a long career around the sound, and even today has a popular wah-wah pedal by Vox named after him.
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
: This page is about the ( now defunct ) sound card company based in Quebec City, Canada, named Ad Lib, Inc. — not to be mistaken with the software company Adlib Software or Adlib Information systems.
Cake considered the album more professionally produced than Motorcade, despite references to its " raw " sound, and the reception was again generally positive ; critics noted the broadening of Cake's sound, with Joshua Green noting in the Westword that " Nugget spans a broader range of topics than did Motorcade, with similarly appealing results ", and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer saying that " The gimlet eye and sardonic humor of 1994's Motorcade of Generosity is intact, but Fashion Nugget is aptly named ; it updates Motorcade with beatboxy soul and hip-hop rhythms ".
The Warner Bros. technology, named Vitaphone, was publicly introduced on August 6, 1926, with the premiere of the nearly three-hour-long Don Juan ; the first feature-length movie to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout, its soundtrack contained a musical score and sound effects, but no recorded dialogue — in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film.

sound and Paula
Paula can read directly from the system's RAM, using direct memory access ( DMA ), making sound playback without CPU intervention possible.
Paula has four DMA-driven 8-bit PCM sample sound channels.
The first trackers supported only four channels of 8-bit PCM samples, a limitation derived from the Amiga's Paula audio chipset and the commonplace 8SVX format used to store sampled sound.
In January of 2002, CNN executives were embarrassed to find out an on-air promotion that was not approved by top executives was being aired that called Paula Zahn " sexy " and included the sound of a zipper.
Paula joined Genesis's band Psychic TV in 1983, playing drums and creating sound collages.
The style and sound of the album was compared to that of Beyoncé, Paula Abdul and Jennifer Lopez by several critics, as well as Britney Spears, Aaliyah and Ashanti.
Jim Farber of Entertainment Weekly felt that the songs from It's About Time " sound like they fell off a Paula Abdul album ".
However, there was probably no other Amiga game released in 1986 that utilized the capabilities of Amiga's Paula sound chip like The Pawn did.
QSound logo as shown on Paula Abdul's Spellbound ( Paula Abdul album ) | Spellbound album CD. QSound is the original name for a positional three-dimensional ( 3D ) sound processing algorithm from QSound Labs that creates 3D audio effects from multiple monophonic sources and sums the outputs to two channels for presentation over regular stereo speakers.
* Paula, the sound chip of the Commodore Amiga computer

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