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- From: dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson)
- Subject: Re: ALERT GUS vs SB-16+Wave module,
- Message-ID: <dedmunds.724201120@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <BIGGLES.92Dec12135035@biggles.nsc.com>
- Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:58:40 GMT
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- biggles@biggles.nsc.com (biggles) writes:
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- >I think everybody should hold on a second before they buy their next
- >soundcard. (Un)Creative Labs has just released their next generation
- >SoundBlaster (SB-16 I believe -- I just saw a demo of it at CompUSA)
- >The new 16-bit 44KHz sampling board lists at $349 and the *Add-On*
- >Em-u chip WaveBoard is $249. Thats $598 to get te same sounds as a GUS.
- >It does come with some nicer software tho'
-
- Oh why did I rush out and spend $165 CA when I could have waited and
- spent $598 US? Just wait for the new software from Gravis that should
- be out in the next little while.
-
- I'm keen to do some serious midi. Are there any reasonably cheap samplers
- for guitars?
-
- --
-
- Darran Edmundson
- dedmunds@sfu.ca
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