COMPARE 2005 DATABASE

[Salient]

About 4 years later, is this topic still 'actual' ?
I mean, is anybody still interested in additions to the comparison 2005 page?

[jharris01]

If by 'actual' you mean modern sound cards then I think the answer would be no.

Personally I would love to see the Yamaha Waveforce 192XG included, but that's because I own the card. In my opinion the default mode is slightly better than the S-YXG50. For me the waveforce was the hardware version of the S-YXG50 with better reverb/chorus (and excellent PCI DOS support). Not sure if anyone would care though.

[Salient]

If by 'actual' you mean modern sound cards then I think the answer would be no.

I was aiming at my collection of midi devices (including the creative midi blaster) and all the wavetable boards I have from the past.
I recenlty acquired an Akai general midi module and recorded the midi file from that page with it. Doesn't sound very nice but just for the sake of it.
Also recorded from my MU2000 already.

-- Edit # 2 --

Recordings now done for :

- Creative Midi Blaster Sound module
- Creative Wave Blaster (1) Daughterboard
- NEC XR385 (Yamaha DB60XG Clone) Daughterboard
- Pine Technologies PT-202 Daughterboard
- Unknown brand DBII A Rev. 1.1 Daughterboard
- Terratec Mini WaveSystem WT64 v1.0 Daughterboard
- Terratec Mini WaveSystem TTWT-11M v1.0 Daughterboard
- Diamond Monster Sound Wavetable card 2MB Daughterboard
- Roland SCB-55 Daughterboard
- Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
- Yamaha MU2000 Tone generator
- Akai SG01k GM Sound module


Coming soon :

- Creative Wave Blaster II Daughterboard
- Gallant GMW-1000 Daughterboard
- Roland SCB-7 Daughterboard
- Roland SCC-1 ISA Soundcard
- Roland RAP-10 ISA Soundcard


Here are the files: Comparison 2005 contributions

[jharris01]

Good job. Of the daughter boards I like the NEC XR385 and Terratec WT64 the best.

EDIT: Allright Salient. You got me motivated enough to record the Waveforce performing the reference midi. If anyone's interested, here it is:

http://www.mediafire.com/?xzjjwnaoqyd

EDIT: Oops. I posted the wrong mp3. Here's it:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/uzjn4kmeent/waveforce.192XG.compare.2005.mp3

[Tom]

When I originally put the page together in the late 1990's/early 2000's, people were still using all these cards, routinely.  Today, only a few people use retro systems containing these old sound cards -- and only a few people still play the old adventure games...so I abandoned the Sound Card Comparison Page.