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== Sound Card Brands ==
▲|'''Audio Advantage''' - Popular line of USB sound cards, all of which have digital SPDIF outputs. It comes in three models: ''Micro'', ''Amigo'', and ''Roadie''.
▲|'''Cancun FX''' -
▲|'''[[Turtle Beach Catalina | Catalina]]''' - 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 [[Dolby Digital]] Surround Sound, [[EAX]] 2.0 without on board sound processing. (uses [[CPU]]) The disappointing Catalina takes 2nd to [[Sound Blaster]] Audigy 2 in sound quality.
▲|'''Daytona PCI''' -
▲|'''EAR Force''' gaming headset - headset that does true 5.1 Surround Sound.
▲|'''Maui''' - Maui was an inexpensive wavetable synthesizer add-on card. It used the ICS WaveFront synthesizer chip and offered optional RAM slots that would allow users to add their own sounds to the wavetable playback. This product pre-dated the Creative/Microsoft "SoundFonts" concept by two years. This card was intended for Sound Blaster owners who wanted to improve their MIDI playback by adding wavetable synthesis.
▲|'''Monte Carlo''' - Monte Carlo was the first Turtle Beach sound card that was not designed in-house. It was based on a Crystal semiconductor reference design for a "Sound Blaster Compatible" card. It was very inexpensive and did not really live up to the Turtle Beach quality or reputation.
[[Image:Tbmontegoa3dxstream.jpg|right|thumb|Montego A3DXstream]]
▲|'''[[Turtle Beach Montego DDL|Montego DDL]]''' - [[Dolby Digital|Dolby Digital Live]]-capable. 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound, [[EAX]] 2.0 with on board sound processing. Priced around $80 [[USD]]. See also: [[Montego DDL Control Panel]]
▲|'''Montego A3DXstream''' - unrelated to the current Montego DDL in every way but the name. The Montego was based on the Aureal AU8820 (Vortex) chipset.
▲|'''Montego II Quadzilla''' - the Montego II was a family of cards that replaced the original Montego card. The card was based on the [[Aureal Semiconductor|Aureal]] AU8830 (Vortex 2) chipset but differed from the reference Aureal design. The Quadzilla was the 4-channel version and achieved this via a separate daughtercard, whereas the other AU8830 cards such as Aureal Vortex SQ2500 and [[Diamond Multimedia|Diamond]] Monster Sound MX300 used a single card.
▲|'''Monterey''' - Monterey was the first cost-reduced version of the MultiSound. In essence the synthesizer (the Emu Proteus) was replaced by a less expensive RIO card that was based on the ICS WaveFront chipset. The DSP and A/D was identical to the MultiSound, as were the specs.
▲|'''Multisound Classic''' - was a 430 [[US Dollars|USD]] full-length [[industry standard architecture|ISA]] sound card produced from [[1992]] to [[1994]]. It contained an [[E-mu_Systems|EMU]] Proteus 1/XR professional MIDI rack engine with 2 [[megabyte|MB]] or 4 MB [[read only memory|ROM]] sample pack and a [[Motorola]] [[Motorola_56000|56001]] / [[Motorola 68000|68000]] [[digital signal processor|DSP]] chip pair for [[digital audio|wave]] recording and playback. The card supported [[Windows 9x]] officially and can be used on [[Windows NT 4.0]] and [[Windows 2000]] using Peter Hall's drivers. The sound quality and feature set offered by MultiSound Classic was truly revolutionary at the time, but [[Creative Labs]] acquired EMU in 1994 and the supply of XR chips stopped. The card had to be redesigned accordingly, creating the Tahiti.
▲|-''' Rio '''- The RIO was a daughtercard MIDI synthesizer that was compatible with the Sound Blaster daughtercard pinout. This product was intended for Sound Blaster owners who wanted to improve their MIDI playback by adding wavetable synthesis. The RIO offered optional RAM slots that would allow users to add their own sounds to the wavetable playback. This product pre-dated the Creative/Microsoft "SoundFonts" concept by two years.
▲|-'''[[Turtle Beach Riviera | Riviera]]''' - affordable [[Dolby Digital]] 5.1 Surround Sound without on board sound processing. (uses [[CPU]])
▲|'''Santa Cruz''' - Santa Cruz, is based on the [[Cirrus Logic]] SonicFusion (aka Crystal 4630) DSP. It featured four analog channel outputs, a line input and microphone input are included on the back panel. Also included is a connector TB has dubbed the "VersaJack." The VersaJack has multiple functions selectable by software including digital SPDIF output, a second analog input, analog output or 5th and 6th speaker outputs. This card also supported an open source software based EAX.
▲|'''Tahiti''' - Multisound Classic derivative without the on-card synthesis
▲|'''Tropez 32 / TBS2000''' -
▲|'''Tropez Classic''' -
'''Tropez Plus''' -
▲|'''Tropez Plus''' -
==See also==
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