From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 11:38:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28422 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baygate.bayarea.net (baygate.bayarea.net [204.71.212.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28416 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mcnab@localhost) by baygate.bayarea.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA25378; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:31:51 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:31:51 -0700 From: David McNab Message-Id: <199607081831.LAA25378@baygate.bayarea.net> To: tdl@widomaker.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (tdl@widomaker.com) Subject: Re: Sound board question Reply-to: David McNab Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Troy wrote: |OK, I know very little about sounds boards, looking at the FAQ and the |prices of the boards I have narrowed it down to either a Gravis Ultrasound |-or- a SoundBlaster 32. Here's an option you might want to consider. Buy a plain old SoundBlaster 16. It's cheap and compatible with /everything/, and unless you buy the lame "value" edition it has a daughterboard connector that allows you to attach a wave table card (like the very fine Roland SCD-15 -- I think that's the model number). This way, you end up paying a little more, but you get guaranteed SB-16 compatibility and the option to upgrade to wave table synthesis that's superior to the AWE/32. (At least according to the reports I've read on the net.) -- Dave McNab