Category: Sound Cards
The Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live!, announced back at Fall Comdex 97 in Las Vegas, exploits better than any previous Creative Labs product the audio hardware expertise the company bought when it acquired E-mu Systems Inc., back in February 1993 and, more recently, Ensoniq Corp., in Jan. 1998. Both E-mu and Ensoniq are brand names well known to...
Is it a viable option as an audio/MIDI workstation?
As noted in our Music Hardware feature elsewhere on this site, we do not recommend Windows 3.1 or Windows NT for musical applications, unless the software you want to use runs best on either of these OSes (and there are a few cases where it does). As detailed in that article, Windows 98 or Me...
Guillemot's Maxi Sound ISIS: Sound Card is big on I/O
Product: Maxi Studio ISIS
From: Guillemot International Inc.
5505 Blvd Saint Laurent, suite 4204
Montréal H2T 1S6 Québec - Canada
Tél : (514) 279-9960 - Fax : (514) 279-0194
Price: US$399.99
Pros: PCI card with external I/O box, 20 bit converters. Full duplex, 8 analog...
New chip promises four times the processing power of the EMU 10K1 processor used in the SB Live
The Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live!, announced back at Fall Comdex 97 in Las Vegas, exploited better than any previous Creative Labs product the audio hardware expertise the company bought when it acquired E-mu Systems Inc., back in February...
Software bugs may mar early adopters' listening experience
Product: Audigy OEM
From: Creative Labs
Price: C$99
Pros: Low latency ASIO driver, FireWire port, multi-channel (4-speaker or 5.1 modes) audio, digital and analog I/O, fancy audio effects.
Cons: Bugs galore, particularly in the PlayCenter software. No EAX support in Windows 2000 or XP. (...
The Best Audio Entertainment Soundcard on the market?
Product: Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX
From: Creative Labs
Price: C$349
Pros: Big software bundle, full-featured external multi-I/O box for digital and analog I/O, infrared remote control, low latency ASIO driver, front and rear IEEE1394 (FireWire) ports, multi-mode (up to six-channel) audio...