SOUND BOARDS: CRYSTAL LAKE
100 Series
- Phone:
- N/A (out of business)
- Fax:
- N/A (out of business)
- BBS:
- N/A (out of business)
- e-mail:
- N/A (out of business)
- Web:
- N/A (out of business)
Crystal Lake 100 Series
- Chipset:
- CS4232, CS9233 (for wavetable), CS8905 (for reverb/chorus)
- CD-ROM:
- ??
- Street price:
- N/A (out of business)
- OS/2 Drivers:
- Available
- Drivers from:
-
ftp://ps.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/drivers/sound/os2r130.zip, OS/2 ftp
- Comments:
- I've received one absolutely glowing report of success with a
Crystal Lake 140 under OS/2. The person giving the report said that
driver installation was easier than with a SoundBlaster AWE32 and that
sound quality was superior. The main down points seem to be a lack of
volume control for wavetable MIDI (this is a common limitation of
IBM's MPU-401 driver, which may provide the MIDI side for this board)
and lack of access to the advanced SRS features of the board from
OS/2. Unfortunately, Crystal Lake seems to have gone out of business,
though it's possible others are selling this design now (see Timur Tabi's CS
advocacy page for more information).
Copyright © 1996, 1997, Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
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