RE: Sound Blasters

[Roy-Anders Larsen <royal@bellsouth.net>]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Scorpion wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Nerijus wrote:
> 
> > You said you "wanted to get a Sound Blaster 16", so I think you talked
> > about ISA version, because it works very well with Linux. Be careful
> > with PCI... it might be difficult to setup.
> 
> I originally wanted the ISA, but all they had down there was the PCI and
> that's what I want to know more about.  What about the wavetable one?

I would probably recommend a SB 64 ISA AWE card.  After I bought the SB 16
waveffects ISA, I found that everywhere I checked for info on how to
config it they recommended the SB 64 ISA AWE.  AFAICT, it has a wavetable
built in and you cand expand its memory.  With a slow computer like mine,
you'll soon wish that the expansion hardware (like the soundcard) is fully
capable of handling its own stuff.
I'm able to play WAV files and the lousy MIDI that's built in.  Beep,
beep..  OK, so maybe you get what you pay for... :-)
I've never tried recording with my sound card.  Any views on recording
with these card folks?

Roy


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