Amiga Sound Cards

[pVC]

It depends a lot for what you need the audio.

For myself (as non musician or audio editing person) the two main reasons for having sound card in classic Amiga are:

1. playing mp3 files without cpu-load with full quality
2. having a mixer for Paula, CD-ROM, TV-card and AHI-audio.

I have both PCI and Zorro bus in my Amiga and sound card is Delfina Lite. Soundblaster wouldn't do the 1. thing, so that's why I prefer Zorro cards. Delfina Lite was cheap when I got it... if the money wouldn't have been the issue, then I'd got Delfina Plus instead

Paula is bit faster for games etc, so I use it for those. Only music needs the better quality IMHO.

Sampling is also easy and good quality with sound cards, but never actually needed it

[pVC]

Uhm.. where can I find good information of this mp3@64 in Amiga? And it really have at least 3 external inputs for mixing sources? And software for playing mp3 files?

And BTW. I only have CV64/3D and Voodoo3

[pVC]

Hmm.. checked it even before asking, but still can't see product like that on those pages...

[pVC]

Fixer wrote:
Yeah.. but what I mean is to say is are these mp3 decoders (like mp3AT64) Sound Cards or are they just mp3 players for your Amiga?

Separate mp3-decoders like MAS-player or that mp3@64 are just for playing mp3 files. They won't work as soundcards for other areas. They were usefull couple of years ago, but it's bit less use for them nowadays, when almost every electronical device can play mp3 files But still you can have bigger collection on music on real computer like Amiga than on those portable devices etc

[pVC]

Reflex wrote:

@Reflex

The overclock util is DelfTweak. Look for it on Aminet.

I use DelfInit instead of the initialisation tool that comes with the card. Also on Aminet.

I use the patch 2 version.

ah OK but if I have an hardware overclock maybe I don't need none of these, or maybe yes?

With HW overclocking you won't need DelfTweak (and shouldn't even try! Remove HW overclock first, if you want to use software overclocking.), but others could be useful.