York, PA - Turtle Beach Systems, creators of the award-winning MultiSound sound card are now shipping their second hardware product, the Turtle Beach Maui Wavetable Synthesizer Upgrade Card. Maui is designed so that owners of lower quality cards can add the benefits of wavetable synthesis and sampling capabilities to their existing solutions.
"We've tried to develop a low cost solution for those individuals who have upgraded their sound cards several times and still don't have the benefit of a great synthesizer." said Curtis Crowe, Vice President of Sales.
Turtle Beach's MultiSound card was the first multimedia solution for Windows computing which didn't support the now antiquated FM Synthesis Process. This 20 year old technology, though adequate for game play, leaves much to be desired for real multimedia work.
Maui's General MIDI 16 bit sampled instruments are stored in 2 megabytes of ROM onboard the card. In addition to the 128 General MIDI instruments provided by Maui, SampleStore, a user-definable sample player is included so that users can create their own samples using and existing Wave files as a starting point. This means that virtually anything that can be recorded using an existing sound card can be played back via a MIDI sequencer. Samples are automatically transposed to create incredibly interesting new sounds.
Maui ships with 256K of sample RAM which is upgradeable to 8 megabytes of storage RAM. Maui is MPU-401 compatible, so its installation into a DOS environment supporting that standard is relatively simple.
Maui's list price is $199.00 and is available worldwide from authorized Turtle Beach dealers.
