First post, by Mau1wurf1977
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The Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold was Creative's last / final / flasgship ISA Sound Card.
It is quite an interesting cards with strengths such as golden RCA outputs, a good signal to noise ratio, no hanging note problems with the MPU401 interface, very flexible resource management (you can turn off features and turn it into just a Game Port if you want).
But it also has downsides, the biggest one: not having a real Yamaha OPL3 chip.
It uses a Creative OPL3 clone, refered to as CQM, which tried to sound like the OPL3, but sounds different. However there is one feature that makes the AWE64 Gold with its CQM quite interesting and that is the ability to apply Reverb and Chorus.
This video compares various Reverb and Chorus settings!
Every two and a half seconds the track switches. There is an image showing which Reverb and Chorus setting is currently used.
There are three parts. The first part compares Reverb, the second part Chorus and the final part Reverb + Chorus.
Personally, I really like this feature. It is especially handy if you don't have a MIDI device and want to improve / enhance FM sounds.
Let me know what you think? What setting do you prefer?
