The initial success of sound cards was due to poor motherboard audio quality and problems with interference and isolation. While modern sound cards still exist for pro audio scenes, external DACs ...

and receive a reproduction of the first successful sound card. All the files are up on Github should you want to build your own. Now all we need is someone making modern 486 motherboards.

Taking considerably less space than digital audio, MIDI files require a wavetable synthesizer on the card, which holds digitized samples of the instruments. See MIDI.

A solution for some sensors comes courtesy of [Ruslan Nagimov], who shows us how the PC sound card can become a measurement interface. The idea is that simple resistive or capacitive sensors can ...

MSI, the world's leader in motherboards and graphics cards has chosen Creative Sound Blaster® Cinema TM audio technology for its new motherboard lineup. Sound Blaster is the leading brand in PC ...