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Explanation of words
 Phrase 
 Meaning of phrase 
 SCSP 
 An abbreviation for Saturn Custom Sound Processor. . Built-in DSP for sound. 
 Sound data  
 Data stored in the sound memory. "There are three types of" DSP program ". 
 Tone data  
 Tone data for playing sequence data. It consists of PCM waveform data and pronunciation parameters. Includes FM sounds. 
 Sequence data  
 Music performance data. The music data composed by MIDI is compressed for Saturn and consists of performance information such as the intensity, height, and start / end of sound. Sound effects are also created in the exact same format. 
 DSP program 
 This is a DSP microprogram to operate the sound DSP. Effects programs such as reverb and sub-round are available. 
 DSP work RAM 
 An area for DSP delay RAM and effect coefficients, used by DSP internal processing. 
The size of this area varies depending on the microprogram.
 Sound Creator 
 Sound creation part of the sound system, such as creating sounds, composing, creating sound effects and effects 
A person in charge of minutes.
 Main system 
 The game program on the SH side. The sound driver on the 68000 side is the sound subsystem, and the game program that controls it is the main system. 
 number of samples 
 1 sample depends on the data width of the PCM waveform, so 1 for 8-bit PCM Bytes, 2 bytes for 16-bit PCM. Therefore, if 4K samples are used, it will be 4096 bytes for 8 bits and 8192 bytes for 16 bits. 


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