flaming gerbil (Jun 26, 2001 12:54 p.m.):
hey pinky check out the turlte beach santa cruz card. I do a lot of hard disk recording and this card is a great bang for the buck. (75.00) I also have a mark of the unicorn sound card as my primary card, but it costs more than most computers. turtle beach has a midi jack and midi sequenecing software (digital orchestrator), software mixing, 6 speaker support with 20-bit conversion. (sb is 16 bit) a mic jack with phantom power (for condensor mics). internal and external spdif. tad, cd, and aux internal jacks. a daughterboard riser for an optional synth card and another riser for future upgrade support. and there is also a headphone jack. mp3 software, a dsp chip which takes most of the processing away from the cpu. it also has 3-d sound encoding software. p.s. i do like soundblaster but right now i think turtle beach is the best dollar vs. performance value.