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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!news.ucsc.edu!ruby.cse.ucsc.edu!not-for-mail From: eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: SoundBlaster alternatives Date: 31 Jul 1996 21:04:34 -0700 Organization: Image Processing & Multimedia Lab (UC Santa Cruz) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4tpaci$ak1@ruby.cse.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ruby.cse.ucsc.edu I'd like to collect feedback from any and all who have attempted to use sound cards other than Creative Lab's SoundBlaster under BSD/OS 2.x. I will post a summary if I get enough information, so e-mail is fine. I am particular interested in A/D and D/A usage. The Gravis UltraSound, for which an unsupported driver is distributed with BSD/OS 2.1, offers significantly better signal quality than CL's SoundBlaster. I know of one person who has lightly used an original GUS under BSD/OS with good results. Turtle Beach's card have even better SNR stats, but these cards operate as SoundBlaster compatibles using a software (DOS/Windows) driver and hence won't work with the sb driver under BSD/OS 2.1 (at least, we have not been succesful in getting a high end TB card to work with the sb driver). An exception *may be* the Turtle Beach Monte Carlo card. Has anyone tried this? --Eric