Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:1480 rec.music.synth:16072 comp.music:1861 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cs.columbia.edu!abrams From: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,rec.music.synth,comp.music Subject: "Fun" Sound card for PC's... Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 12:43:51 GMT Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Distribution: na Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 45 I'm looking for info on the Sound Master and Sound Blaster type cards. Let me preface this query by saying that I'm not looking for professional quality sound or super-duper anything. I've got all that already. I'm looking for something that's going to be a lot of fun to use, but not too limited. Apparently, the SoundMaster PC is non-controllable via any software package they sell, but makes really prety sounds when used with a bunch of games. Is this correct? How many games is this really supported by? Does it have any other use at all? Price: $89.95. AdLib makes a Music Synthesizer card with composition software, instrument makers, etc. Is this any fun at all? Is this supported by more/less/same games as the SoundMaster? Price, $149.00 + 75 for Composer software, 40 for Instrument Maer, 30 for MIDI option on Composer. According to an ad I have, the SoundBlaster does everything the Music Synthesizer card does PLUS it has a MIDI port (irrelevant, I've got one already). It also comes bundled with a composition program and VoxKit software for digitizing and playing back sound, esp voice. It is NOT made by AdLib, as best as I can tell, but it is supposed to be compatible. Price: $199.00 Does anyone know anything about these? How about others? The SoundBlaster sounds like the best deal, but is it? Anyone have info on any of the various speech/vocoder cards for the PC? Or generic A/D-D/A systems? Please e-mail responses, I'll summmarize if warranted. Prices quoted are from a catalog, not sug. list. ~~~~Steve -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu * **************************************************/ #include #include