From: tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani)
Subject: Re: TURTLE BEACH SYSTEMS-MULTISOUND
Organization: Dept. Of Psychology,  Queen's University,  Kingston
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:00:29 GMT

In article <bheagney.0fnu@amiganet.chi.il.us>, bheagney@amiganet.chi.il.us (Brian Heagney) writes:
|> I have just purchased the MULTISOUND soundboard made by Turtle Beach Systems. 
|> 
|> The list price USED TO be $999, then lowered to $599 due to customer complaints
|> on overpricing.
|> 
|> I bought the soundboard from COMPUTABILITY for $579 DELIVERED!
|> 
|> Let me just say that the soundboard, in my opinion BLOWS AWAY all others away
|> on the market.
|> 
|> I have tested the PAS 16 along with the SB 16 and neither of them compare in
|> sound quality or performance near MULTISOUND.
|> 
|> The documentation and installation was very easy, yet in the book, and on my
|> system I "HAD" QEMM 386 running and had several problems getting the memory
|> settings to work, yet I eliminated this problem by remapping my TSR's to
|> different memory locations.
|> 
|> The installation of the software into WINDOWS 3.1 was very easy and I was
|> amazed at the graphical capabilities and "LOOK" of the actual utilities for
|> this soundboard.
|> 
|> MultiSound Features:
|> 
|> - Full compatibility with MPC standard for multimedia computing on the PC.
|>   This means that MS will work with ALL Windows multimedia applications.
|> 
|> - Sample-playback-based E-mu Proteus/1 XR (TM) synthesizer, using 4MB of     
|> digital waveform memory, providing up to 32 MIDI voices simultaneously.
|> 
|> - Very HIGH QUALITY digital audio using 64x oversampled, 16-bit A/D converters.
|>  D/A converters us 8X oversampled interpolating filters and sigma/delta
|> conversion technoloty.
|> 
|> - Fast DSP providing 20 MIPS performance for data compression, etc.
|> 
|> - Hurricane Architecture (Provides throughput 8X greater than 8-bit sound)
|> boards
|> 
|> - Included FREE is WAVE Lite and DUAL RCA-1/8" Stereo cable
|> 
|> ---
|> 
|> There are several inputs/outputs on this board.
|> 
|> The board itself is full size yet designed very well, reducing heat.
|> 
|> There is an IN from the MAIN source such as CD and then an AUX input that can
|> be interanlly connected to an INTERNAL CDROM also!
|> 
|> There is an out to AUDIO amplifier and also an in/out MIDI port.
|> 
|> For TRUE 44.1KHz, 16 bit, Stereo, WITHOUT compression it is roughly recorded at
|> 10.5MB/MINUTE.  The sound quality is AWESOME, better than most DAT decks, and
|> blows away other soundboards.
|> 
|> 
|> There is SO MUCH to talk about, and since I am not getting payed for my time, I
|> would suggest that if you would like to get more information - really detailed
|> I would say that you should contact TURTLE BEACH SYSTEMS at:
|> 
|> Turtle Beach Systems
|> PO BOX 5074
|> York, PA  17405
|> 
|> Oh yeah, the UTILS that come with the system are ALSO AWESOME, well made
|> creations for the WINDOWS environment.  VU METERS, MIXERS, EVERYTHING
|> 
|> Hope this persuades some of you.
|> 
|> SUPPORTS ".MID & .WAV" formats.  Will support other files if converted to these
|> formats.
|> 
|> The 4MB of 126 CD samples that are not really synthesized really adds REALISM
|> to .MID files instead of soundblaster quality instruments...really AWESOME...
|> 
|> That's all - if people want more or have SPECIALTY questions, just ask!
|> 
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What about a software development kit? If you pay that much
for it I think that it should come bundled with it (IMHO).
-- 

Tarun Kripalani (of Permanent Wounded Knee )
e-mail:   tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca
Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard