TerraTec 512i better audio-card than SoundBlaster Live???

[Blomberg]

Tomas wrote:
no idea.... no experience with terratec.

But it isnt supported by os4.0 is it? i thought only sblive and ac97 via was supported?

The Terratec 512i and 128i are also supported.

AHI - supported sound cards

[Blomberg]

Here's a review of the Terratec contra one of the Creative Soundblasters. Haven't read it myself yet.

French review

Babelfish translation

Also, I heard from a rather questionable source that the s/pdif output of the 512i doesn't work and that it was a hardware problem. Don't really know what that's about, surely they must have fixed it by now.

[Blomberg]

@ SlimJim

General MIDI is a (old) standard for MIDI "instruments" (sounds) and their respective part and bank numbers.

Read more

Re: MIDI connectors on sound cards

Most "normal" sound cards only have the standard joystick/MIDI port with the 15 pin D-sub connector.
Some middle end cards have a set (or more) of MIDI connectors (the round DIN thingies), usually In, Out and Thru.
The high end audio cards often have no MIDI functionality at all, and instead rely on people having separate MIDI interfaces (PCI, USB, joy/MIDI port).

Some keyboards have a serial interface that connects directly to the joystick/MIDI port.

[Blomberg]

@SlimJim

When you record MIDI on your computer, it uses the internal sound module of your sound card, not your keyboards sounds.

If you want to record the *sound* of your keyboard, you have to connect its audio out to the line-in on your sound card as you would with any other instrument.
This produces an audio track - a long sample which is uneditable as opposed to MIDI events you *can* edit.

You can also program a sequencer (eg. a computer) to "play" your keyboard via MIDI. Or control a slave keyboard (or several) from a master keyboard.

MIDI is a system designed to send 'events' (notes, data) between a master and a slave, not sounds. It simply triggers a sound in another sound module.

I have a simple MIDI controller keyboard (no sounds), which I use to record into a software synth/sampler, and the sounds are then rendered by the software which produces the audio output.

[Blomberg]

@SlimJim

I'm not entirely sure if conforming to the General MIDI standard also includes using a standardized set of sounds.

Congrats on post 400, though I'm sure Helgis will pass you in a weeks time  :-D

[Blomberg]

No idea, sorry  :-D   :python:

[Blomberg]

Yea - well, don't read it then