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- From: thureen@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Thureen)
- Newsgroups: alt.emusic,comp.music,rec.music.synth
- Subject: DAK BSR Mediamaster
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:28:39 GMT
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- The wonderful world of DAK (Dakonians Unite) is advertising a multimedia PC
- sound board (BSR MediaMaster). Its hard to separate the hard data from all
- the advertizing glitz, but they apparently claim it has:
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- 16 bit A/D w/41.1 KHz sampling
- 16 bit D/A
- 128 voice MIDI sound module (Roland GS compatible)
- 16 bit processor w/384K RAM
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- Multimedia Software
- CD Music Launcher
- Text-to-Speech software
- Mentor MIDI sequencing and music notation program
- Band-in-a-Box
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- All this for $199.90.
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- Has anyone had any experience with this card or seen any reviews of it?
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- Questions:
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- 1) Is this too good to be true? DAK can sometimes make the most horrible
- trash look gold-plated. Is it a piece of junk or a good deal?
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- 2) What is the quality of the sound module? Did they use someone else's or
- build their own. Is it polyphonic? (how many?). Multi-timbrel? (how many?)
- How does it compare against some of the low end rack mounted or keyboard
- synths.
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- 3) How about the audio quality (noise, etc.)
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- 4) How does it compare against some other boards.
- (Gravis Ultra, ProAudio Spectrum 16, SoundblasterPro, Ad Lib, etc.)
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- 5) Is it compatible with any of the above? Any third party software support?
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- 6) How about the Mentor sequencer/notation program?
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- Thanks for any advice.
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- Dan Thureen
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- thureen@cobber.cord.edu
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