Maxi Sound 64 Home Studio 2

  

Launch your games into the 4th sound dimension: On 4 speakers, space sound widened to 360° and for games running the function, true 3D Positional Sound! Make your dreams come true with the high end recording studio providing extreme realism: You won't believe your ears!

FEATURES:

Real time stereo Direct-to-Disk digital audio studio 8 wave tracks + 64 MIDI tracks (no CPU usage). 16 bits, 4 to 44.1 kHz sampling CD audio sound quality.
64-Voice GM/GS wavetable hardware synthesis. High quality samplers of 4 Mb RAM on board 425 real musical instruments, 128 General MIDI sounds. 97 instrument variations, 200 drum sounds divided into 16 drum sets.
DSP (Digital Signal Processor): Dream 5O MIPS: no CPU usage. Interactive Surround on 2 or 4 speakers. Various special effects customizable on 2 or 4 speakers in real time: reverb and chorus on MIDI and waves, echo and reverb on inputs...
Real time 4-band equalizer on all sound sources.
Enhanced full duplex: Better than Full Duplex. Simultaneous 2-way playback and recording or conversation over the Internet, at different sampling rates: 8 or 16 bits, mono or stereo, 22 or 44.1 kHz.
Inputs: microphone, stereo line in, MIDI interface.
2 separate stereo outputs to connect 4 speakers: 1 stereo line out (low noise) + 1 Surround output.
1 pre-amplified output (ideal with headphones).
MIDI cable included.
Measured Signal-to-Noise Ratio: >88 dB A (A weighted at -3 dB).
With add-on digital daughterboard: Measured S/NR > 91 dB A (at-3 dB).

UPGRADABILITY:

Memory expandable to 20 Mb RAM with standard RAM SIMM (< 60 ns) to download new sound banks.
Connectable with any wavetable daughterboard (Yamaha DB50XG) to expand polyphony to 96 voices, multitimbrality to 32 channels and to benefit from other professional sounds.
Ability to connect an optional digital daughterboard to set up a digital stereo S/PDIF 44,1 kHz input/output. This add-on card also includes stereo analog RCA input/output jacks with gold-plated connectors and 18 bits Burrbrown DAC.

MAXI SOUND 3D POSITIONAL STANDARD

Experience the only true 3D Positional Sound on 4 speakers: the new standard Maxi Sound 3D Positional Audio for your games running the function and your musical applications. Using the Microsoft DirectSound 3D APIs, up to 48 sounds can be positioned on 3 dimensions simultaneously with no CPU usage (under Direct X 5.0). You can finally hear the enemy approaching from behind, the helicopter overhead, the race car speeding by on your left and monsters springing up on every side and furthermore or set up a home orchestra.

SOFTWARE:

MAXI FX: Exclusive original software that operates Dream 50 MIPS DSP (Digital Signal Processor). Customized Interactive Surround on 2 or 4 speakers mono or stereo, real-time equalization and special effects both on MIDI and wave files, in music applications or in all games. With MAXI FX, optimize your sound for any application on your desktop and save up to 800 presets.

Maxi FX Software

MAXI BANK DOWNLOADER - This software is used to download new sound banks in the MAXI Sound 64 Home Studio 2's memory so as to optimize your MIDI creations or games sound. This software can be used together with Quartz Audio Master SE 2.0, Cakewalk or any other MIDI sequencer.

MAXI MEMORY 64 - Create your own high-quality sound banks and load them into the MAXI Sound Home Studio 2 memory with help of MAXI Instrument Downloader. MAXI Instrument Editor allows you to create and edit your own high-quality multi-layer* MIDI instruments or sounds from any wave file.

* Multi-layer: the ability to use more than one sample at once per note.

QUARTZ AUDIO MASTER SE 2.0 - Powerful multi-track digital audio and MIDI recording software is specially designed to take advantage of Home Studio 2's unique hardware architecture. It combines ease of use with professional record and playback features to bring you the ultimate studio for your PC.

SOUND IMPRESSION - The intuitive sound recording and production software program. Features cool stereo rack interface, integrated mixing panel, wave file recorder and player, MIDI player and CD Audio player: load up to 48 MIDI files, mix down wave files with special effects.

CAKEWALK EXPRESS - Multi-track MIDI recording studio: record, edit and play music on your sound card or external MIDI instrument. Play the piano on your computer with Virtual Piano, the on screen piano.

INTERNET PHONE - Speak to people all over the world for the price of a local phone call, via the Internet, (with a modem, not supplied).

SOUND BANKS LIBRARIES - Additional sound libraries from Groove Style included.

COMPATIBLE WITH THESE STANDARDS:

General Midi.

General Standard.

Roland MPU-401 mode UART.

DLS (DownLoadable Sounds).

DirectSound and DirectSound 3D hardware accelerator (under Direct X 5.0).

Maxi Sound 3D Positional.

Windows Plug and Play.

MS DOS version 5.0 and higher.

Sound Blaster.

Sound Blaster Pro.

ESS Audio Drive.

Enhanced full duplex.

Compatible with any PC system (lntel, AMD and Cyrix processors).

MINIMUM REQUIRED CONFIGURATION:

IBM PC 486 DX2 and higher or 100% compatible (Pentium recommended).

16 bits slot.

4 MB RAM (8 MB under Windows 95).

Microsoft Windows 3.1x, 95, 98 or NT.

CD-ROM drive.


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