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In order to cater for the many options of the Audio System WAMI BOX whilst
maintaining compatibility with DOS games, a number of large-scale integrated
circuits have been used in the sound c ard; these perform their own special tasks
according to the signal path. Because of this, the signal paths are switched according
to the task. This may appear somewhat complicated at first glance, but we have
made the use of the many different functions of the WAMI BOX as simple as
possible for you through pre-defined settings of the control panel.
The synthesizer component of the WAMI BOX has several virtual devices. These
are: 3 sound-producing (in the broadest sense) devices (MIDI synthesizer, wave
playback and signal input), 5 effect devices (reverb, chorus, echo, equalizer and V
space) and a wave record. These 8 devices are for the most part software algorithms
which are implemented in the synthesizers operating system. Each of these
algorithms uses a more or less large number of processor units (slots, see also
hardware manual). By switching off some devices (in general, effect devices), the
number of units available for other devices can be increased. The sound-producing
devices only use processor units if they are active and allocate the slots variably
among themselves. The corresponding number of slots is requested according to the
number of channels and voices in use. The wave devices have a higher priority than
the MIDI device. If needed, voices are therefore borrowed in the first instance from
the MIDI device.
The different sound sources can be routed in various ways to the effects and outputs.
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