Well, up to you guys... as i said before, it's a must one to me because i play Descent. And if there's something else better for that single title, why not use that instead--again just for that single title? Don't we have choice now?
Silent Loon wrote:Every wavetable card has its strengths and its weaknesses, that's what I mean.
And for that exact reason we should not pull Descent tunes out from the comparison. Call it a representation for the techno/electronic-tuned titles/genre. There are still a lot of differences to hear in the tune, and i personally think both the AWE and GUS version are far less preferrable to me than the Yamaha or Dream version, so we're different here (well, of course all of them are much more listenable than the Adlib/FM version 🤣 )
But see it this way: That Tyrian's CiQ you uploaded before, it sounded better on that card than on the Dream (thin and a bit too bright on the Dream sample).
valnar wrote:It's very electronic and doesn't show off the instrument patches very well.
It does, in a different way to other titles, because it used different instruments.
I only used that as one example. Not right, not wrong, not best, and definitely not worst. One example.
Please don't disregard a title (especially one so popular as Descent 😁), just as you should not disregard a wavetable device because it sounded bad on something.
OK, enough Descent. Here is two other 'must ones' (again... IMHO...): Kyrandia and Monkey Island. OK, they're not the best--so what? 😀