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"Bleh! Not that great."
2.5 starson by opjosePros: Good SNR and latency
Cons: No MIDI SYNTH!
Summary: This is basically a good A/D D/A board with NONE of the synth features found on even the cheap SBLive series.
Midi is interpreted and emulated via Creative's software synth... which is frankly quite poor.
For a card in this price range I at least expected a full hardware midi implementation and synth.
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There are so many good software MIDI sampler solutions now that I'm a little puzzled why you would even *want* onboard MIDI from your sound card.<br><br>There are a ton of very good MIDI solutions that drive right past affordable and don't stop until they hit dirt cheap cheap. You can download Cakewalk Music Creator 3 (with Virtual Sound Canvas) from Cakewalk for a whopping $29, and if you have soundfont patches for other Creative cards, there are free VST and DXi soundfont players on the web that will work with Music Creator.<br><br>For that matter, if quality is more important than price, the GigaStudio software sampler will dust any hardware sampler ever made, whether for a computer or standalone.<br><br>At this point, hardware MIDI samplers build into sound card are relics of an earlier era, and shouldn't be necessary for any practical use.
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