Abstract
This paper describes Digidesign's Sound Accelerator, a digital signal processing card for the Apple Macintosh II and SE based on Motorola's 56001 digital signal processing (DSP) chip. The card also includes dual 16-bit digital-to-analog converters allowing 44.1 KHz stereo playback. An expansion port on the card provides connection to a stereo 16-bit analog-to-digital conversion box as well as an Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcast Union (AES/EBU) digital interface for digital audio tape (DAT) or compact disk (CD) player interfacing. This paper describes the card's hardware and then outlines the development environment that has been created for the Sound Accelerator. Finally, there is a discussion of the limits of this environ-
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