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- The GUS Programmer's Digest Friday, 10 November 1995 Volume 22 : Number 001
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- Today's Topics:
- Ultrasound PnP, Ultrasound PnP Pro PRESS RELEASE
- Re: Ultrasound PnP, Ultrasound PnP Pro PRESS RELEASE
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- From: "A.D.R." <root@volrm67.vol.it>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 03:59:46 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Ultrasound PnP, Ultrasound PnP Pro PRESS RELEASE
-
- Look what I found on the Gravis www site!!!
- (I know the site presents you just a 'work in progress' page, but you
- can access everything if you know the filenames!! :-))
-
- FROM the PRESS RELEASES PAGE:
- (http://advanced.gravis.com/PRESSBOX.HTM)
-
- Gravis' New PnP Sound Cards Base On The AMD Interwave(tm) Chip
- 10/09/95 (http://advanced.gravis.com/press/grpr26.txt)
- - --------------------cut here-----------------------------------------
- CONTACT: Megan McFeely
- imagio
- 206-625-0252
-
- Advanced Gravis' New PnP Sound Cards Use the AMD Interwave Chip to
- Deliver Wavetable Sound at Reduced Price
-
- Full-Duplex Capabilities and Bundle Offer
- Telephone-Like Communication Via the Internet
-
- BURNABY, British Columbia, October 9, 1995 -- Advanced Gravis Computer
- Technology Ltd. announces a new generation of wavetable PC sound cards,
- the UltraSound Plug & Play and the UltraSound Plug & Play Pro. The new
- cards offer the quality of wavetable sound and the convenience of Windows
- '95 PnP at very affordable prices. Expected to be one of the first Plug
- & Play wavetable sound cards on the market, the standard and Pro
- versions are estimated to have a street price of $149.00 and $199.00 US,
- respectively. Competing sound cards typically cost up to $50 more.
-
- Advanced Gravis is the most prominent company to offer a sound card with
- full duplex capabilities, making simultaneous, real-time verbal
- conversation on the Internet possible. To fully showcase this feature,
- Advanced Gravis is including with the UltraSound Plug & Play a
- microphone and a complete bundle of software enabling users to utilize
- the Internet for telephonic communications. This full Internet package
- is comprised of:
-
- - - CompuServer Internet access kit, which includes the Mosaic_ browser
- for access to the Internet;
- - - Internet Phone, which allows users to "dial-up" and actually speak to
- others on-line;
- - - RealAudio, which delivers real-time sound for programming such as
- concerts and sporting events.
-
- The UltraSound Plug & Play sound cards are the first to announce use of
- the highly-integrated Interwave chip developed by Advanced Micro
- Devices. The Interwave chip was developed as the result of a joint
- venture between Gravis and AMD utilizing Advanced Gravis' UltraSound_
- audio technology. The Interwave chip is the first to provide integration
- of the MPC-3 multimedia requirements. This integrated technology allows
- Gravis to deliver more honest reproduction of sound and reduce the card's
- cost without sacrificing the quality of the other components.
-
- "Gravis pioneered consumer-priced wavetable synthesis, with its
- introduction of the world's first affordable 32-voice wavetable sound
- card, the UltraSound," says Mike Cooper, President of Advanced Gravis.
- "So, it makes sense that we would be one of the first to introduce
- Windows 95 Plug & Play wavetable sound cards especially at a reasonable
- price."
-
- For the first time, Gravis is offering instrument samples in ROM format
- as well as in its widely accepted RAM architecture. The Pro version
- comes with 512K RAM installed, making it compatible with UltraSound, the
- industry's most widely supported, full-featured wavetable sound card.
- Both versions can be upgraded to up to 8MB of RAM delivering the ability
- to load a broader array of high-quality custom sounds and digital effects
- such as flange, reverb and chorus.
-
- Like the family of UltraSound cards, the UltraSound Plug & Play features
- musical sound from playback samples of real instruments. Unlike other
- sound boards that use FM synthesis, the true 16-bit, 32 voice UltraSound
- Plug & Play cards use all digital wavetable synthesis to produce superior
- CD-quality sound. (FM syntheses tries to electronically emulate
- instruments producing unrealistic simulated sounds, while wavetable
- synthesis relies on digital recordings of actual sound.) The sound
- quality, price and convenience of the UltraSound Plug & Play line
- make it an ideal choice for a first-time sound card buyer or as an upgrade
- for experienced users. The UltraSound Plug & Play will replace the
- UltraSound MAX in the Gravis line of wavetable sound cards.
-
- The UltraSound Plug & Play is an ideal card for the Internet, but also
- delivers technical and performance enhancements which make it a
- well-rounded wavetable sound card for other uses.
-
- Technical Advantages:
- - - Built using the AMD Interwave chip - fully transparent in its
- operation, the AMD Interwave chip provides third generation wavetable
- technology and quality;
- - - Plug n Play compliant, Win95 compatible - for maximum ease of use;
- - - Packaged with popular software - Internet Phone, RealAudio, Cakewalk
- Express, CompuServe Internet kit with the Mosaic browser, Sound
- Forgev 2.0, WinDecks stereo rack, 200MB of games and demos for
- additional fun;
- - - Enhanced emulation mode - greatly improved and transparent
- emulation of other sound standards for games that don't support
- UltraSound directly;
- optimized to take advantage of new features in the Interwave chip
- for backward compatibility with Sound Blaster and General MIDI
- applications;
- - - Upgradeable to 8MB RAM using standard 30-pin SIMMs - to create and use
- custom instruments and have access to richer quality sound; digital
- sound effects such as reverb, chorus and flange will be available via
- a software upgrade in the first quarter '96.
-
- Performance Advantages:
-
- - - Ultra-compatible - most widely supported wavetable sound card for
- DOS games;
- - - Provides full duplex record and playback - ideal for Internet voice
- communication and multitrack recording applications;
- - - 16-bit, stereo recording and playback, up to 48KHz - enables
- DAT-quality recording from a multitude of sources;
- - - Speed compensating, full gameport - fastest way to connect your game
- controllers;
- - - Full 192 General MIDI instrument set, plus 6 GS drum kits - all the
- instruments you need for great music;
- - - 5.6 megabyte General MIDI patch set - on CD-ROM for downloading
- to onboard memory of the card;
- - - Support for standard sound libraries - featuring the Sound Operating
- System from HMI and the Audio Interface Library from Miles Design,
- which together comprise a majority of current games;
-
- Standard Features:
- - - Five input mixer with stereo and volume controls - allow you to
- control input from your sound sources;
- - - MPC-3 compatible;
- - - IDE CD-ROM interface;
- - - MIDI interface - connects industry standard MIDI instruments;
- - - External connectors including - stereo line-in, line-out,
- microphone-in, joystick/MIDI adapter;
- - - Supports most popular games - games written for Adlib, Sound Blaster,
- UltraSound, General MIDI, SCC-1 and MT-32.
-
- The UltraSound Plug & Play works with all 386 and higher IBM PCs and
- compatible computers. UltraSound Plug and Play comes with 1MB of ROM
- standard. The Pro version has 512K of onboard memory, features a 5.6
- megabyte General MIDI patch set and supports applications written for
- Windows 3.1 and Win 95, Sound Blaster, Roland MT-32, General MIDI and
- UltraSound.
-
- For more press information or photography, please call Megan McFeely,
- senior account executive, imagio technology advertising and public
- relations, at 206-625-0252.
-
- ###
-
- Advanced Gravis is the #1 provider of computer game devices in the world.
- Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd. is headquartered at #101 - 3750
- North Fraser Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E9. Telephone: 604 431-5020,
- Fax: 604 431-5155, Tech Support: 604 431-1807. US Distribution Center:
- 1790 Midway Lane, Bellingham, WA, USA 98226.
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- From: Daevid Vincent <dae51d@TheMatrix.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 22:57:09 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Ultrasound PnP, Ultrasound PnP Pro PRESS RELEASE
-
- On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, A.D.R. wrote:
- > The UltraSound Plug & Play sound cards are the first to announce use of
- > the highly-integrated Interwave chip developed by Advanced Micro
- > Devices. The Interwave chip was developed as the result of a joint
- > venture between Gravis and AMD utilizing Advanced Gravis' UltraSound_
- > audio technology. The Interwave chip is the first to provide integration
-
- Just for the record, E-TECH, formerly FORTE TECHNOLOGIES, INC (we now are
- the VFX1 HEADGEAR Division) Made BOTH Ultrasound Series cards - the
- previous ones (GUS,GUSMAX) and invented these new ones as well - along
- with the chip! AMD just happens to have bought the rights to it or
- something to that effect, but in any event, E-TECH is THE real brains
- behind these cards.
- Sorry to butt in, but I feel that credit should be given where credit is
- due, and it miffs me that Gravis & AMD "steal" all the credit for doing
- nothing but having big pocket books...
-
- Daevid.
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