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First post, by llamaboy

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A beauty of a card came in the mail today, an Antex SX-9. This is a broadcast grade ISA sound card with balanced outputs and more ICs on it than...well there are a lot of them. I just wanted to show it off.

Anybody every played with one of these? This particular one works great; sounds better than the Aztech I have in there for DOS games.
Really wondering what those pin headers are for. The one with the jumper is used so the computer can tell multiple cards apart (the computer this came from had three). Not sure about the others; no markings other than telling me it's for jumpers? I'll see if I can dig up the manual.

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Full frontal shot. You should be able to read everything if you click to zoom in.

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Here is what is under the shield. I like those fatty resistors down there.

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Not much of a party on the back.

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I/O. I'm guessing that DB-9 is for an XLR dongle. Not sure what the HD SET is for, and I'm guessing the digital out needs some kind of dongle as well.

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Reply 1 of 6, by gdjacobs

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DB-9 can be converted to balanced outputs, either TRS or XLR. I believe HD SET is for headphones. The digital out is for either SPDIF or AES/EBU (the pro version).
http://www.pm-systems.com/pristine/support/sx23e_manual.pdf

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Reply 2 of 6, by SaxxonPike

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How did you get it working in DOS, and what kind of sounds support does it have? There's not a whole lot of info about these that I can find.

Sound device guides:
Sound Blaster
Aztech
OPL3-SA

Reply 4 of 6, by peklop

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Interesting card. Here is 1996 web article with specs:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961028092051/ht … com/audio2.html

Jade:
Antex Z1 and Z1E use OPL3 FM MIDI.
Z1E is expendable with Antex Z.Wav 32 voice wavetable db. Z1 is expendable with Enoniq Otto db. Unknown if both are same.

Reply 5 of 6, by cyclone3d

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peklop wrote:
Interesting card. Here is 1996 web article with specs: https://web.archive.org/web/19961028092051/ht … com/audio2.html […]
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Interesting card. Here is 1996 web article with specs:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961028092051/ht … com/audio2.html

Jade:
Antex Z1 and Z1E use OPL3 FM MIDI.
Z1E is expendable with Antex Z.Wav 32 voice wavetable db. Z1 is expendable with Enoniq Otto db. Unknown if both are same.

I have been looking for a Z1 and Z1E for a couple years now. I have not even been able to find any pictures.
Edit:
Actually, peklop posted some really crappy pictures of the Z1E in my original thread about it on vogons:
Antex Z1/Z1e ?

And the specs page from Antex about it:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961028092059/ht … com/audio3.html

End Edit.

If you search for either on Google 2 of the 3 top results are me asking about them in different places.

PC Mag scan on Google Books with info about the Z1E.
https://books.google.com/books?id=eMKimy4DFaE … x%20Z1e&f=false

Yamaha modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG repository
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Reply 6 of 6, by peklop

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Here are drivers and sdk.
Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/ante … Ss/4NNXXYjUGwAJ

Antex Software Development Kit for Intel Platform
https://web.archive.org/web/20031005012738/ht … K_i386_V332.exe

Antex Application Software
All Windows Operating Systems (except DOS & 3.1)

Download the latest version of the Mixer, Demo, and Meter.
apps-v1058-x86.exe (644k)
https://web.archive.org/web/20031005012738/ht … s-v1058-x86.exe

Support: SX-3, SX-7, SX-9, SX-12a, SX-20, SX-22, SX-23e, SX-33 and Z1e.
File: 95drv400g2.exe

https://web.archive.org/web/20031005012738/ht … /95drv400g2.zip