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In article <39401s$bau@news.cloud9.net>, khuang@cloud9.net (Kevin Huang) writes:
_]Richard (cs5rcs@humus.ucc.hull.ac.uk) wrote:
_]: On 28 Oct 1994, Heiko Hoffmann wrote:
_]
_]: Oh No! - I had a Maui once - 7 months ago - and I'm sorry Turtle Beach but
_]: it was honestly totally and utterly Crap! I already had a SCC1 so I could
_]: compare the two cards running simultaneously switching between them
_]: (playing the same midi track) on the amp. Ok, I bought the Maui to use the
_]: sample-store feature (making instruments out of samples) but believe me,
_]: you don't want to hear the Maui! God! The sounds sounded muffled, as if
_]: coming from behind a pillow, and was just very low quality. It may have
_]: been from a bad batch but I didn't think so (although the waveblaster
_]: upgrade pins were missing from the board!) I think the design was simply
_]: flawed. The sound card I use now - AWE32 is much better than the Maui,
_]: quality wise, and in fact, 'everything else' wise as well! I'm referring
_]: to supplied documentation and software. But, then the Maui never did catch
_]: on so I was glad to see the back of that card only a few days after trying
_]: it out. (I sold it to someone who had never heard the SCC1). Well, that's
_]: what I think about the Maui. It disgusts me! :-(*)
_]
_]: Richard ---->>---->>---->> r.c.shidhu@dcs.hull.ac.uk (Hull, N.E.England)
_]
_]  I'm a bit comfused.  I heard a lot of good things about the maui, this 
_]post just said it sucked badly.  Hopefully it's just a bad sample of a 
_]Maui 'cause I'm seriously thinking of buying a Maui.  Any Maui or 
_]ex-Maui owners want to comment on their Maui?  
_]
_]                                              /<evin
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_]Kevin Huang                                E-mail:  khuang@cloud9.net
_]Cloud 9 Internet
 
 Maui is a Grey, not black or white.
 
  GOOD STUFF
 
   - A lot of functionality for $130US. 32 Voice Wave based synth
     with very flexible control of Modulation/Envelopes etc. Via Midi.
   - Can be expanded to 8M sample Memory (Almost a full minute of
     Stereo Sampling at 44.1/16Bit) for only about $300US.
   - The Basic Audio Quality is excellent.

  BAD STUFF

   - Maximum Sample Size is 1MB. 
   - Software with it (WavePatch and Wave SE) is ambitious but 
     very bug-ridden and you have to work around its problems.
   - The ROM samples are pretty bad.

 All in all I'd say its probably only a fair choice for gaming
(General Midi) because the resident samples suck, although it
does make Doom sound radically better than SB16 (not much of an
achievement). I am inclined to discount the report above 
that the Maui basically sounds bad. It must have been defective
or wrongly configured if it was sounding muffled, cause I
have plenty of proof that it can sound really great.
 
 Any one who wants to talk Maui, send me an EMail.
 
     Regards -
 
       Jeff Skinner (tigger@bnr.ca)