Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:49:07 -0500 From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to buy Advanced Gravis Ultrasound MAX Message-ID: <199507130049.TAA02003@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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> Is the Advancded Gravis Ultrasound MAX _THE_ card to have for doing > sound under FreeBSD? If so and the price above is in line I might > do some leg work and see if I can start to stock these things. > The Gus cards do full duplex; but, there are some drawbacks to the gravis, as the driver only supports 8 bit on the dsp. For things like sound recognition 16 bits is a must. I must admit though the other options aren't much better. I run both Gus and Pas cards in the machines here. The Pas cards have a better mixer and 16 bits, but they seem to hang and need a kick start every once in a while. In any case, I would certainly avoid the SB cards as they can only do 1/2 duplex which is a bummer if you want to listen and talk to someone at the same time. We pick up Pas cards for about $79 and the last gus-max card I purchased was $129. If you want to run the Mbone applications, then the gus-max is probably the choice. If you want to do 16 bit samples then the pas is probably a better choice. I don't even know if they make the pas cards anymore -- they were sort of a kludgy card. -Jim
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