ChipChat Sound Card Technical Specifications
Audio Characteristics
- Sampling resolution
- 8 and 16 bit (Stereo or monaural)
- Sample rate
- 4.0kHz - 44.1 kHz
- Dynamic range
- 16 bits resolution (65535 discrete levels)
- Frequence response
- 20 Hz - 20 kHz, 3dB
- Signal to Noise ratio
- 80 dB
- Audio In Input Impedance
- 30k Ohms
- Audio In Input Signal Level
- 1.41 VRMS
- Microphone Input Impedance
- 20k Ohms
- Audio Out Drive
- 4 Ohms
- Automatic gain for microphone
- ADPCM compression/decompression reduces audio file size on hard disk.
Connectors
- Audio In
- mini-phone jack (3.5 mm)
- Microphone input
- mini-phone jack (3.5 mm)
- Audio Out
- mini-phone jack (3.5 mm)
- Joystick/MIDI
- DB-15F
- CD-Audio
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- SoundBlaster and IBM (shrouded pin header, 1x4, 2 mm)
- Generic (shrouded pin header, 1x4 0.10 inch)
- IBM Front Panel
- Pin header 2x8 0.10 inch
Software Setup Values
- Sound Address
- 220
- Interrupt Level
- 7
- DMA Arbitration Level
- 1
- General MIDI MPU-401 Address
- 330
Computer Resources
- Address
- 200-20F, 220-22F, 388-38B, 330-33F
- Interrupt Level
- 7
- DMA Arbitration Level
- 1
Dual MIDI Port
- Dual MIDI ports
- MPU401 MIDI interface
- SoundBlaster MIDI interface
- 64 byte FIFO buffer, full duplex
- Compliant with General MIDI
- Supports external MIDI devices
- Add interface cable to connect to any MIDI device
FM Synthesis
- Advanced FM sound generation: 20 voice, 4 operator
- Supports FM music synthesis in OPL-3 mode
- 16 bit DAC
Wave Table Synthesis
ChipChat Sound-32 only
- True 32 voice polyphony at 44.1 kHz playback
- 16 bit wave samples
- 16 MIDI channel multi-timbral
- Digital signal processor (DSP) rated at 100 MIPs
- 128 General MIDI instruments and 51 piece drum set
Twelve Channel Audio Mixer
- Mixer input
- Audio Line In
- Microphone
- FM synthesizer
- Digital PCM audio
- CD audio
- Wave Table synthesizer
- Mixer allows full control of left/right volume, fade, and pan for each input.
- Master volume controls for record and playback.
Dual Game Port
- IBM compatible dual joystick
- Provides standard MIDI in/out interface (with optional cable)
Compatibility
- IBM UltiMedia
- MPC level 1, 2, and 3
- Adlib
- PC games
- SoundBlaster
- SoundBlaster PRO
- Windows Sound System
- Plug-and-Play
Operating System Support
- DOS 3.0 or higher
- Microsoft Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft OLE
- IBM OS/2 2.1
- IBM OS/2 2.11
- IBM OS/2 Warp
- IBM AIX
System Requirements
- Micro Channel Architecture Computer
- Full or half size slot
- 16 or 32 bit slot
Official Government Agency Approvals
- FCC Class B
- CSA
- VCCI
- CE Mark
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