Also, if you are making your won music, the card plays the instruments not only realistically sounding, but with all the wind movements, etc that effect the sound. The card also has a total of 64 voices. Feel free to email me if you have any questions, etc. Gold is truly the nicest sound card I have vere owned. ISA bus does NOT slow down the performance of the machine appreciably.
Gold is anything but slow.
I've owned mine for two and a half years and never experienced a single bottleneck or slowness. This card has 4mb of RAM just for sound, so it doesn't draw from the rest of your system. As for the ISA vs PCI thing, if you research a little, you'll find that ISA is the better performer when it comes to sound cards. Don't get me wrong, PCI is definitely better for other things as it has better bandwidth. I agree, this one is great for DOS, but it makes too much noise and you have to buy this memory only from Creative and too expansive.