> From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > For sound, a Soundblaster Audigy, > > > >The only real difference in these newer soundcards is the ability to > >play midi (and since it's mostly soundfont based now anyway, a > pretty > >moot point). But the creative drivers for the audigy are not very > >good. SB Live! is therefor better. > > Hardly. The Audidy is the step up from the SBLive!, and has > effectively EAX3 and several other features which while you can do > with a SBLive! eat CPU power. > > I agree, tho, that unless you're a musician or a gamer (or have lots > of money), get a SBLive! value. >
Yes, but there is nothing an audigy can do that a SB Live! can't do, even if it take more CPU. Plus the drivers for the SB Live! actually work. A significant portion of video games use Midi. Musicians are the people most likely to use the midi feature's (composing, in midi) because midi files are just sheet music (mostly). And the audigy drivers don't playback right. > > BTW, that reminds me . . . > > What is the name of the standard default program in Win 9x for > playing > stuff like .wav and .midi files? Somehow some of my sound files seem > to have gotten associated with something like Windows Media Player, > and I'd like to change them back, but as usual I can't recall what to > change them back _to_ . . . Just download the full version of winamp (winamp.com). The default program is in fact media player [evil player, as I refer to it].
