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Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-07, 12:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I landed a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI with breakout cable and driver CD (no box) for $15, not bad I guess? I feel much better about using this than an SB Live! with kX drivers, to be honest! So it works with these drivers in Windows 10? EDIT: Great, I got the card shipped only to find out Win7 …

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-07, 06:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Relatively recent card with MIDI? Take a look at the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI. Comes with DIN MIDI in/out via a DE9 connector and proprietary cable. I picked up one with cable for EUR 25 not too long ago. Also has SPDIF and RCA in/out instead of crappy 3.5mm plugs. Works out-of-the-box under …

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 16:43

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Oh, clever! Of course that makes using the virtual cable deiver poimtless, I will report how well it worked 😀

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 15:31

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well I doubt an FX 8300 @ 3.9GHz is the latency issue here; regardless I have a plan: 1. Install SB Live! 5.1 SB0100 with kX drivers on Win10 box 2. Set up DOSBOX and Midiplayer to output to SB Live! MIDI port 3. Connect SB Live! MIDI port to MIDI Module 4. Connect MIDI Module Audio Out to SB Live! …

Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-03-06, 13:19

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

You guys are scaring me 😁 It will probably take me a year to finish mine. Did you get the brackets 3D printed?

Re: Video card newbie here, have Pentium II machine, AGP 2x

Posted on 2019-03-06, 12:46

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I wouldn't be so sure, Quadro cards can have strange VESA shenanigans - you never know.

Re: Getting into the Amiga: need some help

Posted on 2019-03-06, 12:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Amiga died with Commodore (CBM) and the last 'true' Amiga was the 4000T. RiP Well... technically ESCOM continued building Amigas for a while after it bought Commodore. I'll allow it... And the 'Walker' of course. :) Amiga as an X68000 architecture is dead and gone. The X68000 was a computer by …

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 12:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Kamerat wrote: If you look closely at the back of the X-Fi XtremeMusic it ain't no DB15 connector you see. Report back how it went with the X3MB then. *facepalm* ... So ashamed. Looking for an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum with external breakout box right now..

Re: Getting into the Amiga: need some help

Posted on 2019-03-06, 11:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm really not sure that it's so clear cut.. You have to distinguish between Amiga as a brand, Amiga as an architecture and Amiga as a design philosophy. Amiga as a brand certainly lives on. Amiga as a design philosophy is mostly dead. Amiga as an X68000 architecture is dead and gone. Think of it …

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 10:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I've had terrible USB Midi latency issues with my mainboard's USB 2.0 (AMD 970) or USB 3.0 (ASMedia) ports so I would rather not try to fix that if I can just drop in a PCI card..

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 10:43

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Wow, the options for a PCI card is really limited isn't it? The best I could come across is an X-Fi XtremeMusic, which I will actually grab, but I think I will try using my Dreamblaster X3MB as a USB MIDI interface for a while first.

Re: 89/90 best sound card

Posted on 2019-03-06, 10:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Best sound in 89/90 was definitely the Amiga. For the PC though, I believe Sound Blaster Pro 1.0 was the most advanced at the time. Pro 2.0 would not come until 1991. Check here: https://www.soundblaster.com/about/

Re: Getting into the Amiga: need some help

Posted on 2019-03-06, 07:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fascinating as FPGAs are, and I do consider them worthy replacements for most now OOP silicon, they are not the 'same thing' as real hardware. Yes, they are not 'emulation' per se but that doesn't make them authentic.

Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 06:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Maybe a Live! or Audigy card with the kX driver ? Do Audigies have MIDI ports? Maybe they have those as a breakout? I do have a CT4830 I could repurpose for this, but is there a utility that would allow me to route Live! kX drivers' WAVE Out to the Xonar DG's AUX In (Or Line In or whatever) in the …

Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-06, 05:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have an ASUS Xonar DG in my current PC and I love it as a headphone oriented gaming/music sound card, but its lack of MIDI ports is really hampering my ability to test and record MIDI devices. I know USB MIDI is an option, but I would rather not go that route as it is its own can of worms.. Are …

Re: Getting into the Amiga: need some help

Posted on 2019-03-06, 03:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am no expert in persuasive arguments but I really doubt saying “your an idiot” sways many opinions..

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 22:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Eleanor1967 wrote: Would you be so kind to maybe provide the exact name of the ebay listing so I can check out it aswell? I've checked every Matrox Millenium on ebay.nl and couldn't find it. He was referring to the monitors, not the Matrox card.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 13:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I feel all funny inside with joy whenever people buy something from Serdaco, everything I bought from him has been fantastic. I have my eyes on an X2 myself (S2 no longer cuts it after being spoiled by the X3M) just finding it hard to justify the double dip in a wavetable now that there's a toddler …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-03-05, 11:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Redguard does have the roughest first hour of any RPG I've ever played, I think. Yeah, there are quite a few games that are not NT friendly at all.

Re: BlasterBoard 2.0 : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-03-05, 11:50

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Wow, very nice.

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