Re: sound cards med-high end

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On Friday 26 March 2004 14:39, [email protected] wrote:
> ** I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we aint
> all there **
> I am turning one of my Suse boxes into a video editing-movie/dvd
> creating box.. at least that is the current plan

Ok, first off, the SBLive (5.1) cards don't do midi that well - if at all.  
They have a fair amount of features and seem nice enough.  However, when the 
devs working on this finally got up to some appreciable amount of speed the 
Audigy came out - and tech heads there loved the idea of 24 bit over 16 bit 
sound - of course.  So, it seems that the better part of the ongoing devel 
was more focused on the Audigy 24 bit cards.  I just  bought an Audigy 1 for 
about $60 (and of course two freaking days later the put it on sale and knock 
of $20 bucks ... grrrr!).  I find this card to be fairly robust and the sound 
quality is very nice IMHO.  I can't tell you about the Audigy 2 (LS/ZS 
versions) but I would say a good bet is the in fact an Audigy card.  

Turtle Beach puts out a Santa Cruz version (lol - zealots may not buy merely 
for the namesake "Santa Cruz"/Santa Cruz Operations [aka SCO]).  Turtle Beach 
is known for putting out Pro grade cards - some can be very expensive.  The 
Santa Cruz cards are 20 bit and fairly nice.  I do believe however that the 
driver devel has been more by OSS/OpenSound more over - they make fairly nice 
drivers but are proprietary in some cases.  Also the Turtle Beach cards 
(including the SC version) has been known to have I/O anomolies or 
"tendencies" (if you will) that can lead to the off problems with programs - 
due to the mem addresses vs the programs that can conflict at times.  I have 
not used the SC card so I could be wrong.   The Creative Labs Audigy (v 1) 
should do you nicely.

If you're in a position not to be so concerned over money then there are other 
Pro cards to discuss.  I assume that a 24 bit consumer card such as the 
Audigy would otherwise meet your needs.  If not repost and I can lead you to 
some sites so you can check them out for yourself. 

HTH, Curtis.  :) :) :)  
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