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	Soundcard tips
		Soundcards are typically used by people who do not know how to use audio systems properly which causes that they set up the systewm baddly which leads to very poor performance.
		Soundcards nowadays typically have many sound generating parts on them (D/A converter for sample playback, syntetizer, etc.) and the sound from all those sources are mixed on the mixer chip.
		This distortion which is not caused by the soundcard different than the normal overload distortion because it is actually short breaks in the sound (so short that you can't noce them as breaks).
	www.epanorama.net /documents/pc/soundcard_tips.html (3793 words)

	MIND THE GAP
		All the soundcard developer needs to do is provide a way for you to route the signal at the soundcard input socket to one or more of its output sockets - a sort of hardware thru.
		This is because, although the soundcard utility is still running in software, it displays the signal levels measured by the soundcard driver, rather than those that emerge from the sequencer buffers, and so much more closely reflects what you are hearing.
		Many of the latest soundcards are excellent value for money, with some of them offering multichannel recording and playback, digital mixers and multiple effect busses at less than it would have cost to buy a single dedicated mid-range rackmounting effects unit a few years ago.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/apr99/articles/letency.htm (3566 words)

	VIRTUAL DJ SOFTWARE - MP3 Mixing Software - Time Coded Vinyl
		Plug the RCA sockets of your turntables to the inputs of your soundcard (the white and red sockets of the left turntable go to the inputs 1 and 2, and the white and red of the left turntable to the inputs 3 and 4).
		Connect the outputs of the soundcard to the inputs of your mixtable.
		Then, connect your soundcard to your PC if it's an external soundcard, and install the latest possible ASIO driver (you will certainly be able to find a more recent driver on the manufacturer website than the one who came with your soundcard).
	www.virtualdj.com /products/timecode (1496 words)

	soundcard resource selector
		SOUNDCARD is intended to be an audio version of common collage postcards of cities and provinces around the world.
		In future, SOUNDCARD aims to become a permanently growing database of independent Serbian audio art, giving a look upon the various approaches to thinking about sound by local artists, sort of a publicly accessible mailbox (a soundbox).
		Therefore, SOUNDCARD is also dedicated to radio (in a general meaning) as our extended ear, letting us know that things still happen in remote places.
	www.crsn.com /soundcard (711 words)

	Electronics: Soundcard-Oscilloscope
		Using a 10:1 oscilloscope probe at a typical soundcard input with an impedance in the order of 1 kOhm would give an attenuation of 10000:1 instead and since the impedance of most soundcards is not even known to the user, a complicated calibration would be necessary.
		The output impedance is determined by the output impedance of the used opamp and thus easily low enough to adapt to the input of the soundcard.
		Schematic of the input adapter for the soundcard oscilloscope.
	www.geocities.com /~uwezi/electronics/projects/soundcard_osci.html (574 words)

	Personal Computer Audio Interfaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		soundcard or other audio interface is a requirement for any computer-based home studio setup.
		If you are using a 'multimedia soundcard' I recommend using a small mixing board for your microphones, instruments and other sources and sending the output of the mixer to the LINE IN on your soundcard.
		I find it amazing that a company that makes such a popular soundcard, with millions in use, would not be able to deliver stable drivers to users of the most current version of the world's most popular operating system, running on the world's most popular computer hardware.
	home.earthlink.net /~rongonz/home_rec/soundcard.html (8351 words)

	WaveWarp Users' Guide-- 7.2--Soundcard settings options
		Simultaneous use of multiple soundcards and/or multi-channel soundcards is fully supported, enabling you to create elaborate multichannel effects limited only by the number of physical channels available on your soundcard(s).
		For example, if the soundcard input buffer is set to a length of 2000 samples, the latency will be about 46 milliseconds (independent of the number of buffers used) for a sample rate of 44.1 kHz.
		By default, the buffers for all soundcards are set to nominal values which are found to perform reasonably well over a wide range of hardware set-ups.
	www.soundslogical.com /support/wavewarp/documentation/english/documentparts/wwuserguide-59.html (2655 words)

	Software stereo encoder
		This project makes it possible to use a “normal” soundcard to generate a stereo signal for FM radio transmitters.
		If you have experience with other soundcards, share it with us and write it in the forum.
		Connect only 1 output channel from you soundcard to the input of the transmitter.
	www.heinecke.nl /stereocoder_en.html (871 words)

	Turtle Beach Montego PCI A3D soundcard
		The installation of this soundcard is pretty similar to the MAgicWave soundcard as the Win95 CD is also required several times during installation so I had to switch back and forth between the Win95 CD and the Montego installation CD to complete the installation of this soundcard.
		The strong points of this soundcard are: the quality as well as the variety of all the audio applications included, the good overall quality of its wavetable, the excellent user's manual, the countless audio samples included and it superb signal to noise ratio.
		The weak point of this soundcard are: the absence of tone controls for the bass and treble levels adjustment, the lack of a wavetable manager and the slowing down of the booting process of Win95.
	active-hardware.com /english/reviews/soundcards/montego.htm (1832 words)

	Lyndsay William: Soundcard Design for IBM PC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Richard Watts Associates, Leighton Buzzard, UK, designing soundcards for Commodore, Atari, MSX computers, et al, and rather than design yet another different soundcard for another computer decided to design a soundcard for the IBM PC as this was becoming a standard for personal computers.
		This chip was designed into a soundcard for Olivetti Computers, Italy, for their prototype Olivetti PC1 computer in 1987 and fitted into an external slot.
		The PC soundcard design was similar but converted to interface to 8086 processor by Williams.
	research.microsoft.com /users/lyn/soundcard.aspx (719 words)

	MaxPC - Tutorials - Essential soundcard advice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It’s worth noting that the soundcards included with most PCs are rather basic and usually lower end, so if you’re serious about your sound a new card may be a worthwhile investment.
		For example, you could use the line-out jack to connect your soundcard to your stereo receiver, which would enable you to listen to MP3s from your stereo receiver.
		While the 15-pin serial port on most soundcards will enable you to connect a joystick without issue, you will require an additional adapter if your plan is to connect a MIDI device such as an electronic keyboard to your PC.
	www.maxpc.co.uk /tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=11038&subsectionid=705 (752 words)

	ePanorama
		The PC or soundcard you have should have come with an Owner's manual as well as a large hook-up sheet that explains what all the connections are.
		Soundcard mic inputs are generally pretty crappy, meaning usually that they are noisy and frequency response leaves much to be desired.
		Note for serious audio recorders: Soundcards with mic inputs on minijacks are usually low-quality devices, which means that they are not suitable for high quality recording odf audio (they are still OK for general multimedia use or internet telephony).
	www.epanorama.net /links/pc_sound.html (7714 words)

	Klub - Create the best Karaoke System at Home
		The microphone(s) are connected to the MIC enter of your soundcard and KaraokeKanta reproduces the music through the speakers.
		The microphone(s) are connected to the MIC-IN of your soundcard.
		The audio output of your soundcard has to be connected to the input audio of your music equipment.
	www.karaokekanta.net /klub_paso_siskar_en.html (933 words)

	Soundcard Audio Tools and Toys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A standard PC soundcard (or sound chipset) includes, among other things, an analog to digital converter (ADC) for converting external sound signals to digital bits, and a digital to analog converter (DAC) for converting digital bits back to sound signals.
		As long as your soundcard is 'full duplex' (most are) and the driver is set up to enable it (check), you can use the ADC and DAC to simultaneously input and output sounds - though usually you have to do both at the same sampling rates.
		But if the soundcard's bass and treble controls are put in their "mid" positions (which we established before leaves a 6dB dip in the region of 1-2kHz -- see above) the pattern is as shown below.
	www.techmind.org /audio/index.html (2153 words)

	DART Software Forums - Soundcard input source and level adjustment
		If you are using the "Record" tool (to get audio from the PC's soundcard), and seeing very little or no input level, the issue you're seeing is fairly common and easily fixed.
		This is because this is the mixer section that is dedicated to adjusting input levels for your soundcard.
		You'll also likely be able to hear the input passing to the output.
	www.dartpro.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12 (312 words)

	FAQ: Questiions about Soundcard and Audio Interface Drivers
		Most soundcards that take balanced connectors will also take unbalanced, but the reverse is not true.
		Getting a soundcard or audio interface with balanced connections and switchable impedance is, in my opinion, the best way to go.
		Today, rule of thumb is not to us MME drivers in audio applications, unless the soundcard maker took the pains to develop and excellent driver.
	www.tweakheadz.com /soundcards_page_2.htm (2459 words)

	USB headset and soundcard speakers - Computer Forum
		Before the sound would come both from speakers and headset at the same time because everything was connected to the soundcard.
		Is there anyway i can make the sound come out of both devices at the same time or with USB headset I have to change setting everytime.
		Your USB headset is, in fact, an USB soundcard and a headset.
	www.computerforum.com /288-usb-headset-soundcard-speakers.html#post8848 (382 words)

	Soundcards for the Home Studio
		Unless someone is whacked enough to buy every soundcard in existence, test them all on every OS/CPU configuration and have enough sanity left to recall the results.
		Most soundcards on the market have acceptable quality DACs these days, compared to a few years ago when you had to spend premium dollars to get good DACs.
		Once correctly installed and driver parameters tweaked in your application, the PCI soundcard or audio interface will be rock solid reliable, fast, and be able to spit out audio tracks in great number.
	www.tweakheadz.com /soundcards_for_the_home_studio.htm (4877 words)

	Will a better soundcard help my system? - Hydrogenaudio Forums
		Currently I'm using my computer as the source for my stereo system, and am running a line out of my integrated soundcard (its a soundblaster live! 24 bit) to my real amp which is driving my 2 speakers (they aren't crappy computer speakers).
		I replaced their 'soundcard' for them (I should really refer to it is a 'noisecard', not a 'soundcard'...
		The main purpose of this soundcard is to be a good source for music (this gets back to needing a good DAC).
	www.hydrogenaudio.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=34116 (1402 words)

	MAMMA MIA!
		One solution is to use a multi-output soundcard, and (drivers permitting) to allocate a separate stereo hardware output to each application.
		This keeps the cost of the soundcard down, since you only need one set of D-A converters, and has the added benefit that your signals don't have to re-enter the world of analogue before being mixed together.
		Echo use only two different drivers to support their entire range of soundcards: one for the older Darla, Gina, Layla, and Darla24 range, and the other for the Mona, Gina24, Layla24, and Mia, which they generally refer to as the Echo24 family.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/jun01/articles/echomia.htm (3017 words)

	Incurable Soundcard Stuttering?
		If all devices have high settings they may each have to wait longer before they get a chance to send their own data over the PCI buss, but once they get hold of it they will themselves be able to hang on to it for a longer period.
		The majority of soundcards seem to adopt the BIOS or motherboard default setting, including Emu's 1820M and Yamaha's SW1000XG, but Echo's Mia and Indigo both have a high forced value of 192, presumably to give them more of a chance against various graphic cards.
		To sum up, this can be a hugely confusing area, even for the expert, since you'll find a different combination of PCI and AGP devices in each PC, and they and their particular driver versions may interact in various ways.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/Oct04/articles/pcnotes.htm (2225 words)

	History and Specifications of the Blubb-2 Soundcard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Some time ago, we (namely Markus Hadwiger and Andreas Varga) set ourselves to developing our own soundcard for PCs and Compatibles using the beloved SID 6581 tone-generator which had been the very heart of famous C64's highly praised sound-generation capabilities.
		soundcard (originally short for Blubb-Blubb; wondering how non-native German-speakers are gonna pronounce that properly - in German we call a bubbling sound "blubb" and we've always liked rather childish names for electronic devices :-), and thereafter dive into some serious implementation details...
		But as the Soundblaster series was already widely in use at the time we didn't want to build some sort of a boring clone.
	stud1.tuwien.ac.at /~e9426444/blubb1.html (1331 words)

	Diamond MX300 Vortex 2 AU8830 soundcard
		The frequency spectrum analysis performed on this soundcard is using the Fast Fourier Transform method which is a mathematical tool developed and named after Jean Baptiste Fourier (1768 - 1830) commonly used to convert a signal from the time domain (amplitude-vs-time) to the frequency domain (amplitude-vs-frequency).
		In conclusion, we are pretty perplexed by the flaws we've discovered on this soundcard and we can only hope that they are only present on the unit we were testing and not on all of them.
		However, even with this in mind we really liked this soundcard and if we were not to take them into account we would have recommended this soundcard.
	www.active-hardware.com /english/reviews/soundcards/mx300-2.htm (819 words)

	Zoltrix Nightingale Soundcard Review
		This little quest began earlier this summer, when I found out that there were certain soundcards that could easily be modified for SPDIF output, the digital audio signal used by CD players and MD recorders to transfer perfect digital copies.
		A digital soundcard with SPDIF output would be perfect for recording MP3's and other sound files from my PC to MD discs to carry about.
		As a soundcard, the Zoltrix isn't half bad-previously an IBM MWave Pro (shipped with the Acer) and a SoundBlaster 16 Pro (purchased later) were in the machine and the Zoltrix actually sounds better with the Acer monitor's speakers.
	www.minidisc.org /zoltrix.html (1717 words)

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		We are able to keep things real with close crowd interaction, a sweet sound system, tons of couches and chairs, wicked video projections, and featured drink specials.
		Soundcard is dedicated to bringing you the best live artists as well.
	www.boombox.org /soundcard (142 words)

	SoundCard Detector 1.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Soundcard Detector is a small program that retrieves available information regarding your sound card.
		SoundCard Detector is a system information program which detects all information about your soundcard.
		Use this software SoundCard Detector before you will get any trouble with your soundcard, so you have all information handy if you need it.
	www.padring.com /soft/Other/Other/SoundCardDetector.html (97 words)

	Aria Soundcard FAQ v1.20
		From: dtauritz@wi.leidenuniv.nl (Daniel R. Tauritz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.games, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech, comp.os.os2.multimedia, comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup Subject: Aria Soundcard FAQ v1.20 Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:46:30 GMT Message-ID: <5dvk1m$nkk@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl> Summary: This posting discusses hardware related issues concerning soundcards based on the Aria chipset from Sierra Semiconductor Corporation.
		In this document soundcards based on one of the members of the Aria family will be called Aria soundcards.
		This document is aimed at everyone who already owns an Aria soundcard, or wants to learn more about Aria soundcards in general.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/PCsoundcards/aria/faq (2294 words)

	GamersHell.com Forums -> Soundcard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Audigy 2 ZS for â¬50-60 is a ok tune soundcard for low budged.
		well i use the soundcard that is connected to a mixer and this connected to the decks.
		If the earth would be a sphere and not a disc, i wouldn't be so afraid to fall of the edge......
	forums.gamershell.com /index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=7684 (474 words)

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