Sound Boards: Aria by Sierra Semiconductor

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Sound Boards

By Rod Smith (1997-12-26)

  1. General Comments
  2. Basic Technology
  3. Driver Installation
  4. VoiceType (Speech Recognition)
  5. MIDI File Playback
  6. Chipsets
  7. Specifics
  8. Purchase Recommendations
SOUND BOARD CHIPSET
ARIA by Sierra Semiconductor

Phone:

408-263-9300

Fax:

408-263-3337

BBS:

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e-mail:

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web:

http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/aria

Type:

Wavetable

OS/2 Drivers:

Available

Drivers from:

OS/2 ftp: aria16.zip

Boards using this chipset include:

Prometheus Aria 16, some Diamond products, Genoa, Kinsgston, Zoltrix, and other boards

Comments:

These boards have varying capabilities and prices. I've received one report of 100% success with the Aria drivers on an IBM PS/1 with an Aria board under OS/2 Warp 3.0, though a parameter ("/P:310") was required on the CD-ROM driver to get it working. Another poster said that the driver worked, but produced low volume. I've received conflicting reports on these boards under Warp 4.0; one person reports no problems (though he hasn't tried VTD), while the other reports no success, though he had it working fine in Warp 3.0. I gather that the drivers were developed with the Prometheus boards in mind, so that should be the safest bet among Aria-based boards, at least under Warp 3.0.