Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500 ?

[Henry Low]

Hi guys, i was just wondering if the Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500 is a good card if i want to connect my midi controller to my computer to record stuff on N-track cause I have downloaded many sound fonts and I was wondering if this soundcard is able to use the soundfonts. I use to use SB live value but the card died on me.
How is it in comparison with my old SB live card for midi and stuff like that? THanks

Heres the Tech Specs

Full-duplex, 48kHz digital recording and playback
Sample rate conversion with 27-point interpolation
A3D™ 2.0 acceleration (16 streams with 60 wall reflections at 16-bit 48kHz)
A3D™ 1.0 acceleration (76 streams)
DirectSound3D acceleration (76 streams)
DirectSound acceleration (92 streams) Synthesizer
Professional 576-voice wavetable synthesizer
Reverb and effects (chorus, delay, flange, distortion, wah-wah, and more)
General MIDI and DLS support
4MB of professional studio samples
Audio specifications

SNR: >98dB Typical
Frequency Response: 20Hz-20kHz (-3dB intercept)

Input/Output Connectors

Bracket connectors

Line 1 output - front speakers
Line 2 output - rear speakers
Line input
Microphone input
Game/MIDI port
Coaxial S/PDIF output
Internal connectors (all MPC3)

CD input
Auxiliary input
TAD (modem) input/output

Compatibility

A3D™ 1.0 & 2.0
Microsoft DirectSound, DirectSound3D, and DirectInput
Sound Blaster Pro support
OS Support

Windows 95/98
MS-DOS (Windows DOS box)

 

[riotshield]

I had this card for a while. It's similar to an SB Live, maybe slightly quieter. But it does not support SoundFonts and Aureal is long out of business. I would look for another SB Live or perhaps an Audigy for SoundFonts.

 

[Henry Low]

Say if I still got this Aureal sound card, is there a way of adding sounds to it like I would add sounds on my old Live using soundfonts? is there like another file format? Ive heard that the aureal can use soundfonts though, i might have heard wrong. Cansomeone clear that up for me? Thanks

 

[riotshield]

Sorry it appears I gave you the wrong information. According to vortexofsound.com the Vortex2 does support SoundFonts, along with DLS 1 and ARL (Aureal native format) with the newest drivers. I had read a page by Creative that said only their products worked with SoundFonts, but apparently they are mistaken. If you are using WinXP you may have to double-check because the native MS drivers removed some features to ensure compatibility.

 

[Henry Low]

Thanks, im guessingthey will work with win2k? hopefully =O)