Dedicated and programmable ICs tackle low-cost audio. (studio-quality sound from low-cost integrated circuits and boards) (Products & Careers Edition) (Buyers Guide)

EDN, June, 1993 by Doherty, Richard

You can now get studio-quality sound from ICs and boards for a price that won't have you singing the blues Desktop-computer audio generation has come a long way from the days when clever programmers first pulsed a PC's speaker-drive signal on and off to achieve effects beyond the IBM PC's simple DOS tone-generation capability.

Today, companies like Computer Aided Technology (Dallas, TX) provide digital-audio-capture cards for as little as $69. You can get professional-, CD-, and broadcast-studio-quality audio for well below $1000. Audio cards with FFT capabilities are making instant audio labs out of PCs. Using the latest silicon and board designs, you can experiment with 3-D aural-phasing technologies, create audio alerts with...

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