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Original Message 1/14 09-Nov-98 @ 12:23 AM - Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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I was just looking at Turtle beaches sound cards and they are resonably priced for being rated as very good by an independant rater. I was looking at the Malibu and the Montego, they were 99 bucks each. I'm looking for a better card because I want to get a CD-R and I have a junk card now. I want to be able to record music mainly with the CD-R, anybody have any suggestions or comments on these cards?

Thanks,
Bill

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Message 2/14 09-Nov-98 @ 03:28 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

astro

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I have a Montego and love it. Very, very low noise. It would work well for what you want to do. I'd definitely pick if over the Malibu. It has less noise and uses the PCI slot with will make installing it much easier.

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Message 3/14 09-Nov-98 @ 03:30 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

kilo

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yup TB make great cards... not good with VST tho it appears

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Message 4/14 10-Nov-98 @ 05:57 PM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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kilo did you mean turtle beach does not work well with vst. i'm looking at buying vst now and don't really want to find out it doesn't work well wiyh my card.(pinnacle)

what are the problems that people have with turtle beach and vst?

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Message 5/14 11-Nov-98 @ 03:19 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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I've got a Tropez+. It was great when it worked, but no loger works due to some problem. The error I get is that it's bios is being misreported. I never even knew soundcards had a bios?

I'll eventually get around to writing to TurtleBeach about it, but will most likely end up getting a new card, preferably from another company...Creative perhaps? I've never had any problems with my AWE64, but it's slightly noisier than the Tropez+, from what I can remember. A PCI card would be nice. Does anyone know if those cheap Ensoniq PCI cards are any good?

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Message 6/14 11-Nov-98 @ 03:42 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

astro

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I had one of those cheap Ensoniq cards awhile back. It was okay. The noice level was pretty good for a card its price. Very basic card with decent sound. I think you'd be better off getting a Montego though. I know you dont want to get another Turtle Beach card, but I think its about the best deal out there. And its one of the few cards that has a daughterboard connector, so you can stick a db50xg on it if you want. If you want to get a Creative Labs card than that SB Live! isn't all that bad a card really, considering its a Creative card. It makes a pretty nice sampler at any rate. I had lots of snags installing it though so I took it back.

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Message 7/14 12-Nov-98 @ 02:14 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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The Montego's the one with the sloped edge, right? I might look into that.

By the way, if I ever had a DB50x board connected, would it be possible to mixdown the output of it to a .wav file?

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Message 8/14 12-Nov-98 @ 02:16 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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Oh yeah, another thing I'm to fond of the Turtlebeach cards for, is that they use up 2 IRQ's.

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Message 9/14 12-Nov-98 @ 05:28 PM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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Im not sure about being able to mixdown to wav from the db50xg. I've always routed everything out to a mixer and then back into the input on my soundcard. I have a sneaking suspicion you cant mix down to a wav. I'll look into it tonight though. Another bad thing about a Montego/db50xg setup is that the daughterboard is treated as being an MPU-401 device. This means that if you have an external keyboard or module attached to the joystick port, and the db50xg attached, they will both be triggered by the same midi data. So its one or the other. As far as IRQs go, Im almost positive it only uses one IRQ. It may use two if you use Soundblaster emulation or whatever for DOS compatability, but you can easily disable that if your not planning on playing any DOS games. I dunno, for $50 the Ensoniq card may be just fine for your needs. Ensoniq was bought by Creative Labs though and Im not sure they're still even making the AudioPCI cards. If they are, I think they've slapped some Creative name on it instead.

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Message 10/14 22-Nov-98 @ 11:24 PM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

wat

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I'm using a Montego and love it. I just had one question. Does anyone know where I can get a S/PDIF connector to connect to the card? I know the AWE64 gold has a seperate blade with the connector in it. Does anyone know if the sound card end is the same between AWE64 and the Montego.

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Message 11/14 25-Nov-98 @ 04:52 PM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

Melbong

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I heard from a COMDEX report that Turtle Beach was going to release a version II Montego in December. Supposedly a beefed up digital I/O to be included. Tbeach is selling factory refurbished Pinnacles for $250 with warrantees on their site.

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Message 12/14 26-Nov-98 @ 07:19 PM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

wat

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Dell sells a Montego II right now.

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Message 13/14 01-Dec-98 @ 09:35 AM - RE: Turtle Beach sound cards...anyone using them?

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I have a Montego and I am impressed in terms of cost/performance. It especially has very low noise and for hd recording it is therefore great. Forget about wave table synthesis though- it is crappy, like all other combination sound cards I've seen or heard. If you want good wts sounds get a Sound canvas (virtual or stand alone or even the old SCC1)
I have owned the AWE-32, AWE-64, tested the AWE-64 gold and Live, and my opinion is still that Sound Blaster is for gamers or for those musicians who only want to mess around.

Brad

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Message 14/14 04-Dec-98 @ 06:10 AM - Turtle Beach: thanx, NEVER again

baris.eren

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I own a Turtle Beach Tropez (and for the playback quality it's really not bad) BUT I'm realizing now how BAD the drivers support of Turtle Beach is (e.g. they don't have any Windows NT drivers for the Tropez card). But maybe they have changed their policy now (for their newer products, what I don't think). So if you want to be forced by Turtle Beach which Operation System to use, you can get a Turtle Beach product. A good alternative would be maybe ST 128 DDMA Gold SoundTrack ( http://www.hoontech.com/sndcard2.htm) and be sure that I'm only a poor *** ; ) *** student and not anyone from Hoontech. Greetings, Baris.

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