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AOpen Audio Phantom AW724 Sound Card Review
Last updated:  4/26
/99

Recently released and available for a street price of less than $20.00, this board has the Yamaha YMF724 audio accelerator chipset and packs the punch of the much more expensive Yamaha Waveforce 192XG sound card. 

INCLUDED.  Sound card, floppy with drivers and Aopen Rack. and  Installation Manual.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. 120 Mhz Pentium; 32 MBytes.

SOFTWARE

  • Music Center which combines WAV, MIDI, audio CD player and Mixer

  • MIDI board

  • Yamaha Station player

  • XG Studio MIDI player.

  • Crl-3D demo programs and Star demo game for the Sensaura 3D Positional Audio technology to provide 3D audio effect

  • Drivers for Windows 95/8 & Windows NT 4.0, and WDM streaming support for Windows 98

SPECIFICATIONS

Audio Chip

  • Yamaha YMF724 PCI audio accelerator

  • 64-voice hardware wavetable

  • 676-instrument Sondius-XG capital synthsizer

  • Support Microsoft DirectSound and DirectMusic hardware acceleration

  • ADPCM compression

Record and Playback

  • Record and Playback voice, sound and 16-bit ADC and DAC

  • Programmable independent sample rate from 8 kHz up to 48 kHz for record and playback.

  • Full duplex operation for record and playback

Compatibilty

  • DOS Legacy support with DDMA

  • Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1x, and Windows NT

  • SoundBlaster Pro

  • Microsoft Windows Sound System

  • AdLib and OPL3

I/O

External

  • Line-out

  • Line-in

  • Mic-in

  • Game/MIDI port

Internal

  • CD audio-in

  • MPEG

  • AUX-in

  • MODEM-in

  • MODEM-out

 

Larry

 

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