Aztech Multimedia SC128-3D PnP

In 1998, Aztech launched what I believe was their last sound card, the Multimedia SC128-3D PnP.

	Released	1998
	Bus	PCI
	FM Synth	(integrated into S3 chip)
	Chipset	S3 Sonic Vibes
	Standards	Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro 2, Windows Sound System, General MIDI
	Ports	Speaker-Out, Mic-In, Line-In (stereo), Line-Out (stereo) Game port
	CD-ROM	No
	Wavetable	No
	Plug & Play	Yes
	FCC ID(s)	I38-SN97126
	Price	-
	See Also	Turtle Beach Daytona

The SC128-3D used the Sonic Vibes chipset from S3, which was also used on the Turtle Beach Daytona and several other cards. The Turtle Beach version of this was the very first PCI sound card on the market. The SC128-3D contains a 2 MB wavetable patch set from EuPhonics with 32 voices.

Aztech's card based on this chipset does *not* come with the optional 32Kx8 SRAM chip necessary for reverb effects, where other cards like the Turtle Beach do. It does, however, comes with a Line-Out jack in addition to Speaker-Out, Line-In and Mic-In jacks.

Like the Ensoniq AudioPCI cards, Sonic Vibes uses RAM-based wavetable patches which are loaded into RAM when the driver is initialised. The chipset supports 1 MB, 2 MB and 4 MB patchsets which are in .DLS (Downloadable Sound) format.

For legacy DOS support, it uses Distributed DMA (DDMA), and requires a small 3 KB driver to be loaded into memory for it to work, plus a DDMA-compatible motherboard. In addition, for Sound Blaster Pro support to work in DOS the chipset requires an additional driver, S3DOSVM.EXE, to be loaded into memory - this requires EMM386 to be loaded also.

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