Hi Adrian,
Access recently announced they will be releasing OS v2.7 which adds 3 more stereo outputs through USB, using more of the available USB bandwidth. (12 megabits is equivalent to ~1.5 megabytes/second.)
Total Integration is a fairly new thing with synths these days. I can only think that the things Access wanted the TI to achieve (such as having the above 4 x stereo audio channels, Virus Control, and MIDI over USB) wouldn't require/necessitate a 480mbps chip, and also being business conscious decided to forego it for this round.
There could be other reasons. Maybe the available DSP isn't powerful enough for doing anything significantly greater than that, meaning it would make slightly bad business sense to get anything higher at that point.
Or, maybe they wanted to hold out until a TI mk2.
Or it could be a combination of the above.
Just my thoughts.
Timo
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