Atari STE had 2 channels 8 bit DAC à 25kHz on DMA.
It was the Falcon who had incredible sound capacity with its matrix channel mixer and DSP.
It was the Falcon who had incredible sound capacity with its matrix channel mixer and DSP.
When we talk software mixing, STE maxed out CPU at 8 channels 50kHz, here's an example: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/YERZMYEY-Octopush_ATARI_STe.mp3
Even plain 520 ST can do a lot on this YM chip.
Amiga 500 on the other had could a bit of this but only with 12kHz samples, and no volume control per channel, also those pesky filters.
Amiga 1200/4000 could do same - as per much faster CPU, but... they still left the old audio 8-bit chip in it :/
Other packages (DBE tracker?) allow the STE to play 32channel mods albeit not at 50Khz
All Amigas except the A1000 could turn the high-pass filter off, and pretty much everything tended to do this.