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From: e.m.d.burger@stud.tue.nl (Erik den Burger)
Subject: Re: Aria Questions
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>Hi all,
>  I've got an Prometheus Aria (non-SE model) sound card, and I've got
>a few questions that I hope someone can answer.  (I did read the 
>FAQs).
>
>1) Do the wavesamples sound really bad or what?  I'm sorry, but the
>sampled sounds on this card can barely be called musical.  It sounds
>like a lot of the samples are just digitized FM synth sounds!  The
OK, So it is true that is isn't Roland or Turtle Beach Sound, but the price 
was half of it (if it isn't more) and you will have a perfect 16-bit 
sampling card (much better compared with the GusMax or SB16 (=SBawe32)). 
However if you were using the card only for the wave tables you should 
considering to connect an external Synth to your Midiport.

>horns and strings sound pathetic and the drum sounds are just the
>worst.  I can only hope that these terrible samples are due to
>the bank file and not to the card. 

>
>Are they 16 bit samples?  I can't imagine they are, cause 
>I have a really old 12 bit Yamaha box that blows 
>these wavesamples away.  
Yes, but compressed.
>
>Does anyone know the origin of the General MIDI bank files?
>Where did the samples come from?
>
>Has anyone created an alternate wavesample bank for the General
>MIDI subset?  Apparently with the SDK, this is possible.
This is not possible because the sounds are stored in ROM. Other patch banks 
just redirect some instrumens to some others. This is the same on most 
Roland and Turtle Beach-cards (although some newer cards will give you the 
option to download samples in RAM)
>
>Do the cards with bigger ROM have better sounding samples?  Does
>the Aria SE sound better than the vanilla Aria?
>
>Thanks.

>
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