On 1 March 2011 20:49, D. Michael McIntyre
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, February 28, 2011, Darcy Kahle wrote:
>
>> I currently have a SoundBlaster Live! that has the embedded hardware MIDI
>> Synth...  I would like to get another soundcard with an embedded hardware
>> MIDI Synth for the new system.  I have found that Creative Labs has created
>> the SB X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty, which appears to me to meet the requirements.
>
> I don't know anything about that hardware, and haven't researched it, but I
> would be really surprised if it has a working hardware MIDI synth.

Indeed -- this was true even five years ago.  Many soundcards are
promoted in a way that implies they have hardware MIDI synths, when in
fact the sound generator is in the Windows driver.  I don't recall
hearing of any card with a real hardware synth more recently than the
SBLive -- those things are a valuable resource!


Chris

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