It's worth noting that this has nothing to do with the external MIDI interface socket on the card, nor the fact that the card is capable of 16‑bit digital audio. But many soundcards which come pre‑installed in multimedia PCs, and many that are part of multimedia upgrade kits (bundles which usually include a soundcard, CD‑ROM drive, a few CDs and speakers), only include an OP元 (or even the older OPL2) sound chip for providing MIDI synthesizer facilities. The first is to provide good MIDI synthesizer sounds, if your existing soundcard doesn't have them. There are three reasons why you may want to use it.
Rather, it's meant to be used as an expansion to another PC card. The DB50XG is not a full PC soundcard, in that it doesn't work on its own.
Here's hoping that Yamaha's new soundcard - the DB50XG - is the first of many. On the contrary we're more than happy to have music companies, as opposed to computer companies providing hardware, since they should know what musicians want. Well, Yamaha has now clearly decided that the computer market is a fertile one, and they're going into PC soundcard production with a vengeance - to the point where they're making other manufacturers a bit nervous, to say the least. We also implied that the Sound Edge possibly heralded a quite new outlook on Yamaha's part. Panicos Georghiades and GABRIEL JACOBS dig the new breed.Ī few months ago, when we reviewed the Sound Edge - Yamaha's first multimedia PC soundcard - we noted that for all these years Yamaha had played a backstage role, by producing sound chips for other soundcard manufacturers without developing its own card. Yet the DB50XG harnesses your PC soundcard's processing power as never before. When a musical giant like Yamaha start putting their name to daughter boards, you know something's up.
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