Carrera Studio Pro dB-91

The Maxi Sound card is awash with features, including 128 instruments, 16 drum kits, 64-voice wavetable synthesis, multiple real-time reverb, echo, flange and chorus effects, four-band equalisation and eight-track mixing direct to disk. Instruments in the outside world can communicate with it in General MIDI or Roland MPU-401 UART modes. The board ships with 4Mb of RAM, but you can boost this to 8Mb or 20Mb to give yourself a bigger wavetable library.

The Studio Pro has one more trick up its sleeve, namely blindingly fast performance. The overall benchmark rating of 2.91 it achieved made it by some way the fastest Windows 95 platform yet tested in the PC Pro, leaving no-one in any doubt that this is a machine to be reckoned with.

Author: Dominic Bucknall