Right from the Horse's Mouth
                          The Ad Lib "Gold Card"

According to a slick magazine ad pre-print which I now hold in my
hand, which was sent to me by Ad Lib INC., yes, Virginia, there IS a
Gold Card. At least there will be by this summer.

Official Name: Ad Lib Gold Multimedia Stereo Sound Adapters

Model Numbers: Ad Lib Gold PC-1000 for PC,XT,AT for normal disk based
        applications. Microphone jack, tabletop microphone, game and
        MIDI ports, standard 1/8" stereo out/in jacks.

        Ad Lib Gold AT-2000. For use with AT class machines. Same
        features as above, but with SCSI interface port for use with
        CD-ROM based applications.

        Ad Lib Gold MC-3000. Same as AT-2000, but for Micro Channel
        computers.

Board Functionality: Multivoice sound synthesizer and digital to
        analog converters for stereo playback of music, sound
        effects, speech.

        Microphone input and tabletop microphone for voice recording
        and sound sampling.

        Auxiliary input for digital recordings from CDs, audio
        tapes, and other analog sound sources.

        Audio mixer for combining CD audio, voice,
        synthesized sound, and sampled sound signals.

        MIDI in/out for interfacing with any standard MIDI
        device.

        Game port for all standard analog joysticks.

        Fully downward compatible with Ad Lib Music Synthesizer
        Card.

        Full compliance with Level 1 multimedia extensions to
        Microsoft Windows.

Sound Quality: 20 channels of synthesized sound plus two channels of
        sound sampling.

        Stereo output with programmable volume and tone controls.

        Enhanced FM synthesis from 36 operators in groups of
        two or four using eight differ forms.

        12 bit stereo DAC accepting 16, 12, and 8 bit data.

        Antialiasing filter, plus two times oversampling and
        two times undersampling digital filters.

Technical Versatility: Choice of PCM or ADPCM digital sampling at
         rates of 44.1, 22.05, 11.25, 7.35, or 5.5125 kHz.

         3:1 hardware compression/decompression.

         Two 128 byte sampling FIFO with a choice of 8 interrupt
         conditions.

         16 byte MIDI I/O FIFO with three programmable timers.

         Zero wait time between successive chip writes.

         Programmable microphone gain, card localization, DMA
         channel selection, interrupt selection, sampling
         filter and on-board chip select.

         Available ID code plus directly accessible/readable
         registers stored in non-volatile memory.