Sound Blaster 16 Upgrade?!?!

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3 total messages Started by Aaron Smith Sun, 01 Nov 1992 04:05

#49

Author: Aaron Smith
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 04:05

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Creative Labs has finally got around to getting out a GREAT sound board.
Or at least, by its specs, it should be great.  If anybody has one, I'd
love to hear comments.  The specs that CL sent out are as follows:

"Get the full power of 16-bit professional-quality sound!  Sound Blaster
16 offers affordable CD-quality stereo sound for a variety of applications.
From boardroom presentations to point-of-purchase displays.  For
audiophiles of any level, the state-of-the-art Sound Blaster 16 is the
latest Creative Labs sound board to break through the PC sound barrier!"
     - 8-bit Stereo sampling and playback from 5KHz to 44.1KHz
     - Enahnced 4-operator, 20-voice, OPL-3 stereo FM music synthesizer
     - Sound Blaster compatible
     - Stereo digital/analog mixer for all audio input and output
     - Built-in 4 watts per channel amplifier
     - Software controls for volume, bass & treble tone, and input &
          output gain
     - Microphone and stereo line-in jacks
     - MIDI interface ( Sound Blaster and MPU-401 UART modes ). Available
          expansion for PCM wave table synthesizer. 
     - Windows 3.1 and MPC compatible
     - Bundled software included

I don't work for CL, and that was not a sales pitch, merely giving you
some information that might get those of you who have an SB Pro interested
in buying it because I have a plot.  If you do own an SB Pro and want to 
upgrade, I would like for you to contact CL and ask about an upgrade offer.
I figure, the more people they have call, the better the chance of them
giving a decent upgrade offer.  ( Personally I can't afford the $349.95
price tag that they put on it. )

The board won't hit the market until the end of the year, but that's not
all that far away when you think about it.  So call them...PLEASE...for a
poor college student's sake.  THANKS!

Aaron Smith
ajsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Upgrade?!?!

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Author: Allan TEO
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 02:19

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By the way,
  the SB 16 has a DSP chip on it also... so does the
  Microsoft Sound board .. It has a Analog Devices DSP chip
  and comes with voice recognition software that can
  be easily updated...

  Not won't it be a nice feature if the SB16 can use the
  microsoft board's voice features via MCI??? Maybe it cannot
  because of MS's dirty coding tatics but we'll all have to
  wait and see.. and don't rush out to get anything..

  The SB16 also has the capability to add 4 MB worth of
  real digitized instruments from the turtle beach
  board, it uses the SAME daughter board..

  I also understand that creative labs has also 
  gain EXCLUSIVE rights to a version of the sony XA cdrom
  drive with multispin technology..

  Regds

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Upgrade?!?!

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Author: brian schmidt
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 02:53

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In article <52520012@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> teoallan@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Allan TEO) writes:
>By the way,
>  the SB 16 has a DSP chip on it also... so does the
>  Microsoft Sound board .. It has a Analog Devices DSP chip
>  and comes with voice recognition software that can

Sorry, but that information is wrong.  The Microsoft Sound Board
does NOT have an AD DSP on it.  It DOES have an AD codec on it.  All
this is is a stereo A/D,D/A pair.  Analog Devices HAS announced that
it will have one of its DSP's on an upcoming sound board by
ECHO Speech Corp, with a number of algorithms on it including
speech compression DOLBY XA, as well as ad-lib combatible music
synthesis and speech recognition..

Also, the current SB16 does NOT have a programmable DSP on board.

-Brian Schmidt, free-lance game sound programmer.

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