Nvidia has done it again...

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DLS is not sound fonts. Maybe DLS2 is, but not exactly. The only cards that support *.sf2 files is Live! and any Vortex2 card ( only can load soundfonts with no reference samples ). Futhermore, AE soundcard isn't as good as GTXP, which rocks.
 
Yes, I know soundfonts and DLS's are different, but only just. I suppose I should have said "soundset" or "soundbank" or "synthbank" to make it clear ... but nevertheless, there isn't much between an SF2 and a DLS. You can even convert between the two formats, for a start.
 
Yes ... and? We weren't debating that it had DLS support, just that the all the specs say about its memory size is about 6MB.Tech specs for the card say under music synthesis:

"96 channel hardware CD quality (16 bit, 44.1khz) wavetable synthesizer with 5.9MB sample set."

That is, to put it bluntly, crap. DLS support is nice, good. But if it can't use system RAM (or comes with less than 32MB of its own) then the midi synthesis isn't great, regardless of which format (DLS, SF2, ECW) it's taking its sound samples in.

My *normal* GM synth set is 28MB, and I have a 58MB one for high quality synth. If the card can't use samples that big it ain't going to have as good music synthesis.
 
Well, you could just overcome the 32MB limit by plugging in 2 SBLive's and using the APS drivers. IIRC, the APS drivers have a much lower latency. Can you put 2 Philips Acoustic Edge's together?Less than 6MB is a really really big limitation. Actually, the SBLive does have 'simultated' DLS support under Win2k but what I don't really understand is why this isn't implemented in WinME?

And if you're complaining about Soundfont support, that's what you get when a certain company gets a monopoly over the market.  :)
Let's take for example 3Dfx. They had the advantage of Glide accelerated games while other users with better 3D cards still went unsupported. You get what I'm trying to say? That's when DirectX comes in. Not that I'm a supporter of Microsoft but honestly with only one API to program for, it makes thing a hell of a easier, both for soft. developers and hard. developers.
 
Even if you could put 2 AE cards together you would only have 12Mb... I dont know about you people but my PcI Slots are dwindeling...
 
Get a Vortex2 card then  :). It's cheap, don't have the 32MB limitations for *sf2 or *arl, support DLS too and better digital sound quality than Live and philips AE.
 
XD Ok, ok. You got me there.
Still, though. If you're looking for music and such (not midi) it's the best card to buy. OF course then again if I wanted to increse the sound set I could do some of my patented "Warranty-Voiding(tm)" tweaking. :D
Then again, with one of these boards and an AE and that sound chip, think of all the possibilities (oooohhhh! Possibilities!)
 
Oh yeah; if you aren't worried about midi it does look good. It's just that quite a few people - me including - are worried about midi. Otherwise the Philips does look nice. Even if it is more than the Live!.
 
Yeah. He's sending out the government's money to try and "boost the economy"
He's an idiot.
Anyways, costs more?
Where I'm at, theyt both cost 99 bucks...and I can find them both for cheaper online...like 77 bucks...
So it's a tough choice...
 
I keep having problems with cookies. I would normally edit, but it doesn't wanna.
Well, I am concerned about midi just a tad. As long as it doesn't sound bad, I'm not complaining. When I had Doom for my PC and was listening to the damn computer speaker, then got my SB 16, I thought it was the greatest thing on the planet! Then when I got the Wingroove soft wavetable synth, I thought that was the greatest. Yamaha, directly outta the VIA chip with some tweaking...etc. I guess if I could hear a Live!'s full midi ability instead of just listening to it's musical and sound apps, I might change my mind. The Dominance of the AE's proccessor kinda sells me, though...Anyone out there who can help me with a decision?  :D
I need to buy an actual soundcard outside of the MAXI MUSE which was worse (ugh) than the onboard chip! I can't decide between a Live! Platinum or am AE. Gotta boost the economy with those tax checks Bush is sending out  :D
 
Kojiro, was that some BUSH BASHING??? If so, my undying support and applause.  Damn right-wingers. :P**The 'tongue' smiley is to represent huge disgust, and not to be understood as a symbol to represent tease.
 
Heh, I honestly can't figure out why everyone hates the guy so much. Especially the media, they seem to take every opportunity they have (and then some) to smear his public image. I don't see why people call it the "government's money". Don't they know that the government's money is really taxpayer dollars? I also don't get why people are criticizing his tax cut plans. Heck, Ireland did something similar last year (which was also heavily criticized), and now Ireland's got economic boom because of the cuts. Besides, IIRC, tax rates in the US are the highest they've ever been in history.
I also don't get what the big fuss over Kyoto is. Apparently the prez pointed this out while he was in Sweden, but all the countries in Europe are up in arms about him rejecting Kyoto when not even *one* EU country has ratified it themselves. C'mon. It's not a new US position either. Clinton had that big buildup for it, but his administration ended up not signing it. And before the US' current leader was even on the scene, the US Senate voted 95-0 against it.
Besides, dismissing environmental agreements so bizarrely self-flagellating that they exclude India (population 1 billion), China (population 1.3 billion) and the rest of the Third World from their pollution restrictions while forcing the US to undertake a ruinous 30 percent cut in C02 emissions is just the smart thing to do.   :)
I also don't understand what the big deal over Missile Defense is.
I found these two opinion columns from the Washington Post:   [url="<a]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/krauthammercharles/A42023-2001May3.html[/url]" TARGET=_blank>The Bush Doctrine  
and  [url="<a]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/krauthammercharles/A12585-2001May10.html[/url]" TARGET=_blank>Dense on Missile Defense  
to be very eye opening as to what is really going on.[This message has been edited by Srethron Askvelhtnod (edited June 19, 2001).]
 
Did the EU top-meeting in Göteborg, where Bush attended, reach the media in US? Just curious.(Aside from all the violence and so on, the news in Norway managed to show us some phootage of a guy wearing an exxon shirt, having some other people with Bush masks tied in ropes after him...excellent! Humor is the way to go, not violence...)
 
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