Re: sound cards med-high end

Curtis Rey wrote:

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>On Friday 26 March 2004 14:39, [email protected] wrote:
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>>** 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
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>Ok, first off, the SBLive (5.1) cards don't do midi that well - if at all.
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Don't do midi?
I have a SBlibe, and it works 10 points in midi (depending the soundfont 
that You loads in the memory with sfxload). With a soundfont of high 
quality, from about 40 mb, You can get very relistic instruments.

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>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.  
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>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.
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>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. 
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