The Santa Cruz is a superior soundcard for music.
Lots of games these days are very complex when it comes to sound (EAX, A3D,
Dolby surround sound etc.) and have soundtracks too so a good sounding
soundcard is important for gamers too.
The Santa Cruz is a superior soundcard for music.
Lots of games these days are very complex when it comes to sound (EAX, A3D,
Dolby surround sound etc.) and have soundtracks too so a good sounding
soundcard is important for gamers too.
And how much is it?
Chris
> > I have been using the SBLive for ages now and am quite happy with it.
But
> > then again, I am a musician and probably use all of it's features and I
> have
> > it linked up into my Technics amp (which is only old fashioned stereo).
> The Santa Cruz is a superior soundcard for music.
> > If
> > it's just noise to play games to won't any soundcard do? As for
conflicts
> > with the Geforce, I have the same card and if you disable the SB16
> emulation
> > (like you're ever gonna play a DOS game again) on the SBLive and
reinstall
> > the Geforce, the IRQ conflicts are solved. I have to confess that the
IRQ
> > conflict was a huge problem when I first installed the cards.
> Lots of games these days are very complex when it comes to sound (EAX,
A3D,
> Dolby surround sound etc.) and have soundtracks too so a good sounding
> soundcard is important for gamers too.
Yep. DLS soundfonts, up to 64 in hardware, up to 1024 in software. Has jacks
for front speakers, rear speakers, versa jack which you can use for
headphones (this is how I use it because I can leave the headphones plugged
in and just use a software switch to give them priority and turn off main
speakers)or you can use the versa jack for digital or analog 4.1 speakers or
a virtual 5.1 mode. Also has mic in, line in and your joystick/midi port. SC
also has a 10 band graphic equalizer done in hardware, has MP3 hardware
acceleration, supports EAX 1.0/2.0, Directsound3D, emulates A3D through
directsound3D if needed, ILDS (some other 3D sound API, maybe got the
acronym wrong). Has a load of effects you can set like reverb and chorus
etc.
About $50.00 USD if you shop around.