Sonrize had an 8 channel card in 1990 and a 16 channel card (iirc) in 1992 for the Amiga.
C-) On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Eric Kofler <ee...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Turtle Beach 56K was earlier but I don't know if you > could do multiple cards. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel Negrao" <miguel.negrao-lists@** > friendlyvirus.org <miguel.negrao-li...@friendlyvirus.org>> > To: "Surround Sound discussion group" <sursound@music.vt.edu> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:19 AM > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in > onesingle pc today ? > > > > > 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<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<https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/**mailman/listinfo/sursound<https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130125/1e4d30a1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
