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From: Jim <jim@micronetics.com>
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Subject: Re: Sound Buffer
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:32:24 +0100
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Benjamen Siroshton wrote:
> 
> How do I copy the SPU's sound buffer to main memory for further analysis?
> 


I don't think you can.  The Spu has its own 1/2meg buffer which
is loaded from main memory via dma.  Once its there its there, and no
getting it back.  You could have a bit of a play with the SPU hardware
registers that are located somewhere in the 0x1f81000-0x1f85000 region I
believe.  Where exactly I'm not sure.  

If you want to trigger events on certain notes I guess you could try and
spy on the audio lib functions and see when a note is keyed on.

Is this to sync visual effects with audio?

Jim