* "Magic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 04 Mar 2000
| They could have at least made it an optical output for the MD!
Well, that is a bit more difficult, and more expensive.
| The signal is already digital and there's more than enough bandwidth on
| USB to output SPDIF directly meaning only minimal interfacing would be
| needed.... and a red LED of course... :o)
Yeah, but you still have to convert the audio signal in whatever format it
is stored (cdraw or whatever) to S/P-DIF somewhere in the chain, and that
requires hardware that is more expensive than an inexpensive wavetable
synth chip, as well as the software required to support it.
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