distortedrumble
all up in yo grill!
ok what are some cheap recording thoughts on turtle beach since soundblaster has been branded with a scarlet letter?
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Jim Y
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If you mean the Santa Cruz?
It works fine. No ASIO driver though. No problem if you're a Cakewalk or CoolEdit Pro user.
The second aux line input using the "versa-jack" is noisy though no worse than most on-board sound chips. The main line-in isn't bad at all.
That versa Jack can also be a 3rd output pair or s/pdif to suit some AC3 input surround speakers. The rear output can be used as a headphone feed for the normal front output. All ins and outs appear in Sonar etc so you can have a 4in-4out recorder.
For some reason, driver updates are huge files - especially slow over a dial-up modem d/load.
The drivers are mature and stable. You can have WDM under 98SE.
The midi synth is DLS rather than SF2 soundfont. I noticed percussion voices dont have "exclusive" groups - that is you can hit an open hat sound over the closed hat - you should only be able to hear one or the other. The latest driver update is supposed to cure this.
You can hang a Daughterboard synth on it - Yamaha DB50XG etc.
Recording/playback is limited to 16bit/48Khz max.
There is no proper s/pdif i/o nor any option to add it.
Although it's been on the market a long time, in its price range, and if you want to avoid Creative (I dont blame you) it's pretty much the only thing available. Unless you go upmarket to M-audio, Echo, Terratec cards etc.
It works fine. No ASIO driver though. No problem if you're a Cakewalk or CoolEdit Pro user.
The second aux line input using the "versa-jack" is noisy though no worse than most on-board sound chips. The main line-in isn't bad at all.
That versa Jack can also be a 3rd output pair or s/pdif to suit some AC3 input surround speakers. The rear output can be used as a headphone feed for the normal front output. All ins and outs appear in Sonar etc so you can have a 4in-4out recorder.
For some reason, driver updates are huge files - especially slow over a dial-up modem d/load.
The drivers are mature and stable. You can have WDM under 98SE.
The midi synth is DLS rather than SF2 soundfont. I noticed percussion voices dont have "exclusive" groups - that is you can hit an open hat sound over the closed hat - you should only be able to hear one or the other. The latest driver update is supposed to cure this.
You can hang a Daughterboard synth on it - Yamaha DB50XG etc.
Recording/playback is limited to 16bit/48Khz max.
There is no proper s/pdif i/o nor any option to add it.
Although it's been on the market a long time, in its price range, and if you want to avoid Creative (I dont blame you) it's pretty much the only thing available. Unless you go upmarket to M-audio, Echo, Terratec cards etc.