Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 2000/03

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Advice on sound cards
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:17:54 -0500

Hi Janet,

I have computers with four different sound cards: At home I have a Gateway
2000 with whatever sound card came with it. My wife still uses a Windows
3.1 machine with a Turtle Beach Tropez sound card. My laptop computer has
a Roland PC card sound card and my computer at work has some kind of "plain
vanilla" sound card which came with the machine. I bought the Turtle
Beach sound card (which uses "wave table synthesis) when people were still
using FM synthesis sound cards and hating them. I was told repeatedly that
wave table synthesis was the way to go. I was also told that Roland is the
standard in the field, but I didn't have the money to put out for a Roland,
so I bought the Turtle Beach Tropez wave table synthesis card. It was and
is just fabulous. The instruments sound the way they ought to and I have
always been completely satisfied with it. I can't give a testimonial for
current Turtle Beach cards because a couple of years ago Turtle Beach
merged with Voyetra. When I got my laptop I needed a PC card sound card
and I paid the price for a Roland. I have not been disappointed. It is on
par with the Turtle Beach, if more expensive. The two plain vanilla cards
don't give sounds which are true to the assigned instruments. The one in
the Gateway 2000 isn't bad, but the one at work is really pretty horrible.
If I didn't own these four boards I wouldn't believe that there can be such
a large difference in quality between wave table synthesis boards.

If you do anything in which other people are going to hear the output of
your sound board you must have something near the top in quality. If it is
only for your own editing and notation creation, it doesn't really matter.
We can all put up with crappy stuff if we know that when it gets performed
it will sound good.

There's my two cents worth.

Oliver

At 09:50 AM 3/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I would like some advice about the best sound card to buy. I am using a
>PC, Windows 98. This is strictly for personal use (ie. does not need to
>be recording engineer quality or price), but would like to transfer data
>from mini disc to computer with reasonable integrity. I would assume
>that I would need optical inputs to do this, as well as line input.
>
>I looked in Klarinet archives, and found a brief discussion about the
>Prodif 24. Is there something reasonable on the market for less money?
>
>I don't have a sound card now; when I had my computer built, I decided
>to wait and install a "good" sound card rather than pay for the
>soundblaster that came with standard package.
>
>TIA
>
>Janet
>
><and when you've finished with this question, could someone please tell
>me the best clarinet to buy :-) >
>
>
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