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The S-DSP was made by Sony and got used inside the Nintendo Super Famicom / SNES. It features 64kb of RAM and runs at 2.048 Mhz. It does not actually generate waveforms but plays back Samples stored in the so-called BRR Format.

Technical Specifications

• Channels: 8
• Channels 1-8: BRR Sample playback (a form of ADPCM)
• Stereo: Yes
• DSP Effects: Panning, ADSR, Echo
• can generate Noise too
• 64 KB PSRAM for storing samples and the sound driver
• Output: 16-bit, 32kHz

The Super Mario World Soundtrack comes from the SPC700 Chip

Used in

• Nintendo Super Famicom / SNES
• Nintendo Super System (Arcade Version of the SNES)

Emulation

• SPC | A File Format to store SPC700 Music is .spc, which is actually an Image of the SPC700 RAM that contains all the samples, song structure and the replay code. These days you will mostly encounter .rsn, which are just rar’ed .spc files. You can grab most known files over at snesmusic.org.
• Lots of players can be found over at snesmusic.org too. They also work fine in Hoot.

Music Creation

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