Product: Creative Labs WaveBlaster
Price Paid: US $50 used
Submitted
10/06/2000
at
01:11am
by
Tatu Lund
Email: f<at>tuug dot fi
Ease of Use
:
7
Well just plug it in to WB connector in your sound card. It depends what you are going to do with it. If you are just playing MIDI files, it is very easy. With decent programmer (Polyphony, Soundiver) you make amazing things with this little thingy.
Features
:
7
32-soundpoly, 16-part multitimbral. Essentially the same features than EMU Proteus 1/XR. Should eat even same sysex when you change machine id. The difference is that this is not a rack unit but just a daugheter card for your PC soundcard. Turtle Beach Multi Sound classic is the same unit but adds onboard effect processor for reverb.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
6
Pianos and strings are the best presets. Most of the drums are not very kicking. This unit is nice add on in your studio. Anyway WB sounds much better than its successor WBII and the first soundbacks released for AWE. The sound quality might depend on also your master sound card.
Reliability
:
8
Can't go wrong unless your PC fries it.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never dealt?
Overall Rating
:
9
Well, if you don't want to invest lot of money for EMU Proteus, but would like to have something like that now or then and your daughter card connector is free, this is the option. Ofcourse there is plenty of options available like DB50XG from Yamaha etc., and the net is full of free SoundFonts. But the point is that you get these really cheap today. WB is the reason why I don't have to vaste memory for GM SoundFonts and why I didn't remove my SB16 altough I bought Live!. That makes the overall rating good.
