vwestlife
Veteran Member
As demonstrated in this YouTube video, recording audio in DeskMate using my Tandy 1000RL's DAC chip works fine and sounds pretty good, but the pitch is off-key when played back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2t8ZBPIhMs
Those recordings were all done at the default sampling rate of 11 kHz. At 22 kHz, the pitch is even lower. However, if I take a WAV file of either sampling rate from some other source, convert it to DeskMate .SND format and play it on the Tandy, it plays at the correct pitch. So the pitch problem is with recording, not playback.
Is this just an inherent glitch of the DAC chip and/or DeskMate, or is there something wrong with mine? I've never had a Tandy with DAC sound capabilities before, so I have nothing to compare. Otherwise the computer functions 100% perfectly. It was working fine when I bought it from eBay last year, but I still reformatted the hard drive and did a clean installation of Tandy DOS 3.3 and DeskMate 3.04 from disk images of the original 1000RL setup disks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2t8ZBPIhMs
Those recordings were all done at the default sampling rate of 11 kHz. At 22 kHz, the pitch is even lower. However, if I take a WAV file of either sampling rate from some other source, convert it to DeskMate .SND format and play it on the Tandy, it plays at the correct pitch. So the pitch problem is with recording, not playback.
Is this just an inherent glitch of the DAC chip and/or DeskMate, or is there something wrong with mine? I've never had a Tandy with DAC sound capabilities before, so I have nothing to compare. Otherwise the computer functions 100% perfectly. It was working fine when I bought it from eBay last year, but I still reformatted the hard drive and did a clean installation of Tandy DOS 3.3 and DeskMate 3.04 from disk images of the original 1000RL setup disks.