awgamer wrote:If I've followed along well enough it sounds like everything is going into the monster card where whatever overflow that doesn't fit on the main card will be put on a daughtercard. One card to rule them all, almost, no ultrasound, mt-32, scc-1a:)
Not exactly like that. PCM sound output (Covox Speech Thing, SB-compatible, whatever) will not be found on the main "monster" board. Only various sound generation chips (not including wavetable synthesis like GF1, EMU8000, WaveFront, MT-32, SSC-1, etc...).
Also there is planned a MIDI-host daughterboard, which will carry MPU-401 compatible, Intelligent mode compatible MIDI host controller, which will allow connecting external MIDI devices (Roland MT-32, SC-55, etc.) and internal MIDI synthesizers (Creative WaveBlaster, Roland SCB-55, Yamaha DB50XG, DB51XG, DreamBlaster S2, etc.) to the main "monster" board as a second nearby daughterboard, so overall pack of PCB will fit into one slot.
Probably there will be a PCM DAC of some sort on that "MIDI" daughterboard as well.