Labels:text | newspaper | screenshot | font | number OCR: Sound Bytes Pro AudioSpectrum 16 GIF News * Jan/Feb 93 * Page Three Soundblaster 16 ASP MEDIA DAY VISION For the Macintosh Currently in limited re- lease is the SB 16 ASP. Mac owners can now Backwards compatible with Windows Drivers enjoy 16-bit digital audio PCM sound with the PAS-16 Mac version. Like_its the SB Pro, it features PC counterpart, is has the FM OPL3 a stereo CODEC 16-bit Update v1.44 Released DAC. ASP (Advanced chip, 16-bit stereo digital audio Signal Processing) is Owners of the PAS-16 & CDPC will recording and playback at 44.1 KHz, another feature that be pleased to learn that new MIDI, and a mixer. It comes with Windows drivers have been re- LucasArt's Indiana Jones and the performs realtime data compression, as well as leased, fixing many previous bugs. Fate of Atlantis, which has been the ability to receive Users can now open a DOS Window programmed to take advantage of hardware updates. Also and play .MID files at the same the PAS-16 on the Mac. There are optional is a Waveblaster time, samples no longer get cut off two versions: the LC version which add-on daughtercard, near the end with certain programs retails for $395 and the NuBus which_gives the card like EZ Sound, and Pocket Record version which retails for $495. WaveTable synthesis. How- has some bugs fixed. However, Wave Table Synthesis to ever, it's not Aria com- data compression has not yet been OS/2 users are Take Market By Storm patible. Retail: $350 Card implemented. + $250 Waveblaster. becoming angry at MV for what FM synthesis, used in the AdLib/Soundblaster series, is the seems like an endless wait for the standard for music synthesis on the PC. However, the problem OS/2 drivers to come out. Promised with this is that FM is really outdated technology and the in November, MV has yet to produce instruments do not sound realistic at all. Another way of a beta form of these drivers. music synthesis, called WaveTable, is beginning to make waves PAS Mailing List Available to of its own in the PC soundcard market. WaveTable instruments Internet Users sound much more realistic and richer, as the instruments are actual sampled sounds from real instruments. The first low-cost Users of the Pro AudioSpectrum line WaveTable board to hit the market is the Gravis Ultrasound. Due of products now have a way to cor- respond to hundreds of other PAS chipset. out in January 1993 is the first wave of boards using the Aria The Aria chipset is produced by Sierra Semiconductors users. A group mailing list has been (not the game company) and is sold to manufacturers to use in set up, and people with access to their soundcards, just like Yamaha selling their FM chips to AdLib, Internet E-mail can subscribe. To Creative, Mediavision, etc. The good news is that Aria will be do so, send your subscription request used in over 11 different manufacturers' cards, so it may very to: pas-lovers-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu well become the next standard. Among Aria-based boards are: Genoa's Audiobahn and Diamond's Sonic Pro. Retail Price: ~ #250
