A 21/01/2013, às 21:50, Eric Benjamin escreveu: >> what was the first commercial multichannel sound card > I don't know what the first was, but in 2000 I used an Echo Layla 24 to put > together an 8-channel system with an old 100 MHz Pentium PC (Barely enough > CPU > power. I had to trim the OS to get it to work in real time). Before the > Layla24 there was a Layla20 (just called the Layla), introduced in 1997. > Before > that I used two CardDeluxes strapped together to get 4-channel I/O in a PC. > Driver support wasn't great.
Thanks for the info, that’s really interesting stuff. Found this interesting review of the CardDeluxe also: http://www.stereophile.com/content/digital-audio-labs-carddeluxe-pc-soundcard-page-2 I would be curious to know of even older high quality sound cards. best, Miguel _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound