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Power Your PC with Sound

 

WITHOUT A SUITABLE SOUND CARD, the full power of your computer cannot be totally realized. A sound card lets you experience fully all your programs and, as more and more Websites integrate audio and video clips, increases your enjoyment while you surf the Internet.

Sound is an integral part of computing. The August general meeting featuring Voyetra Turtle Beach will explore in depth the different ways sound can enhance your computer and enrich your life. According to Henry Gil, the Voyetra Turtle Beach representative "the better the sound, the better the image." Henry also says that with a proper sound card, voice recognition and DVD playing reach higher levels, and the possibilities are endless.

Here are some interesting facts about Voyetra. The Yonkers, N.Y.-based, company, was founded in 1975 as Octave Electronics, which manufactured analog synthesizers. In 1979 Octave merged with Plateau Electronics, synthesizer repair facility. The company was renamed Octave-Plateau Electronics.

In 1982 Octave-Plateau released the Voyetra 8, a revolutionary polyphonic synthesizer that introduced the concept of controlling multiple synthesizer modules with a central keyboard. This concept was later popularized by the acceptance of the MIDI standard.

In 1984 the company released Sequencer Plus, the world's first professional PC MIDI software, which helped launch the PC music software industry. Identifying the future potential of MIDI, Octave-Plateau abandoned the synthesizer hardware business in 1986, changed its name to Voyetra Technologies, and began to concentrate on MIDI software and PC MIDI interfaces.

When PC sound cards first appeared in 1989, Voyetra used its experience in music and PC hardware to take advantage of the potential growth of the PC multimedia market. Collaborating with sound card manufacturers such as Creative Labs and Media Vision, Voyetra soon became a leading provider of music and sound software to the booming multimedia industry.

Voyetra Turtle Beach offers a full line of innovative software for learning music, creating music, and controlling MIDI and digital audio on personal computers. As video, telephony, communications, fax, audio, and other multimedia applications find their ways into homes and businesses, Voyetra will continue to provide state-of-the-art software to simplify and unify these functions. In the multimedia milieu, Voyetra is known worldwide as the multimedia sound specialist, a reputation that it intends to carry into the future.

Attend the August 1 meeting at Danbury Hospital Auditorium at 7 p.m. to find out more about all the potential of sound and video. DACS general meetings are open to the public. For more information about the August meeting or for the special interest group meetings (SIGs) that take place during the month, check our Website at www.dacs.org or call our Resource Center at 203-748-4330.


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