From: bheagney@amiganet.chi.il.us (Brian Heagney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: TURTLE BEACH SYSTEMS-MULTISOUND
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:25:26 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

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

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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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