Message 17/17
Date: 04-Dec-98 @ 06:47 AM -
NOT turtle beach tropez, this is not a joke
I own a Turtle Beach Tropez (and for the playback quality it's really not bad) BUT I'm realizing now how BAD the drivers support of Turtle Beach is (e.g. they don't have any Windows NT drivers for the Tropez card). But maybe they have changed their policy now (for their newer products, what I don't think).
So if you want to be forced by Turtle Beach which Operation System to use, you can get a Turtle Beach product ; (
A good alternative would be maybe ST 128 DDMA Gold SoundTrack
( http://www.hoontech.com/sndcard2.htm) if you don't have so much money and want to spend about 200 DM (german marks). In this price class you could compare this card maybe to SB Live! Value. So I would say the poor students solution would be:
ST 128 DDMA Gold SoundTrack OR SB Live! Value (both cost about 200 DM).
btw me and a friend of mine (who also owns a Turtle Beach Tropez) can't find our Turtle Beach Tropez Wavetable Device in Windows95 (this means: at the moment I CAN'T use my wavetable of the Tropez even if I have 8MB RAM on it) which worked sometimes ago and we couldn't find out why? We tried almost everything.
Now something for all (more or less) serious musicians: My experience is "Forget all the soundcards for making music and get a real hardware sampler if you can afford it! If you can't: God SHAVE the musician."
Greetings, Baris aka Erouinn B
(http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_beren) for those of you who have too much free time ; )