Re: Do SBLive and Audigy cards only have 128 GM/GS sounds?!!

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From: js33
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:06

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Hi Doc,

 I used to use an SBlive and still have it in my old
PC and it is OK as a pc soundcard and game card.
IMHO it's not that the SBLive or Audigy sound bad but here are 10 reasons
I can think of NOT to use one.

1.  The hardware is locked to a 48khz sample rate.
2.  Sample CD's will have to be resampled to 48khz.
3.  Some VSTi's won't work properly at 48khz such as the EVP73 which needs a
44.1Khz sample rate to play in tune.
4.  Creative drivers are buggy.
5.  Creative software is shitty and buggy and installs, or tries to, a lot
of crap that is either unusable or useless.
6.  The Audigy is advertised as a 24 bit card but is incapable of recording
at 24 bit.
7.  It is advertised as having low latency but try using 2ms with 10 VSTi's
and effects at once. hehehe
8.  No professional +4db setting
9.  No professional XLR mic inputs or preamps
10. SB and Audigy do not work with GigaStudio on W2k/XP

...and the list goes on

Cheers,
JS


"Doc" <docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Dave G" <SpamS@ndwich.com> wrote in message
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>
> > >> Would YOU be one of the ones willing to put a grand on the line over
the
> > Audigy? (Of course, it's easy to say yes when it's not a reality)
> >
> > Haha-I did!
> >
> > Why?because I could hear the difference the "better" soundcard made to
the
> > sound I could capture of my Sax playing.
> > That's right I COULD hear the difference.
>
> When you KNEW which recording was made with which card. I said a blind
> test. In my hypothetical test, you hear 100 recordings you didn't
> make, of the same material made on 6 different cards. Pick out the
> Audigy at least 95 out of 100 times. If you're wrong, it costs you a
> grand.

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