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In article <C0JIx2.4CA@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> csd25@keele.ac.uk (C.M. Yearsley) writes:
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>At the moment the choice seems to be Orchid or GUS and I don't like what I've
>heard of speed loss under GUS. How bad is it? I'd rather have the best
>performance from my software than the soundcard, if I have to sacrifice
>something.

The speed loss only occurs when using the GUS's SB emulation TSR.  In its
native mode, the GUS does not cause a performance penalty.  In fact,
because of its wavetable chip, the GUS can take care of a lot of the
processing when playing music that relies on sampled sounds, such as
MODs.  In a game that uses MOD music, such as Star Control II, machines
with the GUS run the game much faster than machines with only SBs or
SBPros.

Is the Orchid a wavetable/wavesample card?  If not, it will sound *much*
inferior to the GUS.

Phat.