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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Sound cards
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.165028.20181@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 90 16:50:28 GMT
References: <9895@lanl.gov>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <9895@lanl.gov>, by rdw2030@venus.tamu.edu:
> I am interested in purchasing a sound card for my PC and am wondering what 
> the different advantages are to owning the various boards are.  What I really
> need is your opinion of such boards as AdLib, Sound Blaster, etc.
> 
> Which ones support stereo, sampling, MIDI?  Which ones can emulate other 
> boards?  Any other pertinent info...

Adlib supports 11-voice mono FM music (only?), while SoundBlaster supports
the same 11-voice FM music, plus 12-voice stereo CMS music, digitized sound
sampling (4kHz to 23kHz?), digitized voice output, MIDI (optional box 
required), joystick port, includes a voice synthesizer, and some
user-play-around softwares.  More important to microchannel computer
users, the micro-channel SoundBlaster is coming out in about 2 months...

E. Teng Ong (ong@d.cs.okstate.edu)
Oklahoma State University