Re: (idm) all this talk of computer-based song writing.

From david turgeon
Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 18:26

> It often seems to me that, since CDs run at 41kHz and most PCs run in the
> MHz range, there should be more than enough processing power in the average
> PC to do music.

you're mistaking 'doing' & 'playing'.  any half-decent computer can play
a cd (provided you have a sound card), but a 286, even though it's in
the mhz range, will have a hell of a time _rendering_ your song into a
wave file, which takes a lot more computational power than just playing
it.

that said, any pentium-based computer can run most current software to
professional results, so i'm really just picking here.

--
david