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- Right from the Horse's Mouth
- The Ad Lib "Gold Card"
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- According to a slick magazine ad pre-print which I now hold in my
- hand, which was sent to me by Ad Lib INC., yes, Virginia, there IS a
- Gold Card. At least there will be by this summer.
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- Official Name: Ad Lib Gold Multimedia Stereo Sound Adapters
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- Model Numbers: Ad Lib Gold PC-1000 for PC,XT,AT for normal disk based
- applications. Microphone jack, tabletop microphone, game and
- MIDI ports, standard 1/8" stereo out/in jacks.
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- Ad Lib Gold AT-2000. For use with AT class machines. Same
- features as above, but with SCSI interface port for use with
- CD-ROM based applications.
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- Ad Lib Gold MC-3000. Same as AT-2000, but for Micro Channel
- computers.
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- Board Functionality: Multivoice sound synthesizer and digital to
- analog converters for stereo playback of music, sound
- effects, speech.
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- Microphone input and tabletop microphone for voice recording
- and sound sampling.
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- Auxiliary input for digital recordings from CDs, audio
- tapes, and other analog sound sources.
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- Audio mixer for combining CD audio, voice,
- synthesized sound, and sampled sound signals.
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- MIDI in/out for interfacing with any standard MIDI
- device.
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- Game port for all standard analog joysticks.
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- Fully downward compatible with Ad Lib Music Synthesizer
- Card.
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- Full compliance with Level 1 multimedia extensions to
- Microsoft Windows.
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- Sound Quality: 20 channels of synthesized sound plus two channels of
- sound sampling.
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- Stereo output with programmable volume and tone controls.
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- Enhanced FM synthesis from 36 operators in groups of
- two or four using eight differ forms.
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- 12 bit stereo DAC accepting 16, 12, and 8 bit data.
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- Antialiasing filter, plus two times oversampling and
- two times undersampling digital filters.
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- Technical Versatility: Choice of PCM or ADPCM digital sampling at
- rates of 44.1, 22.05, 11.25, 7.35, or 5.5125 kHz.
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- 3:1 hardware compression/decompression.
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- Two 128 byte sampling FIFO with a choice of 8 interrupt
- conditions.
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- 16 byte MIDI I/O FIFO with three programmable timers.
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- Zero wait time between successive chip writes.
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- Programmable microphone gain, card localization, DMA
- channel selection, interrupt selection, sampling
- filter and on-board chip select.
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- Available ID code plus directly accessible/readable
- registers stored in non-volatile memory.
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