Gravis Ultrasound (1992 Advanced Gravis, Canada), GUS MAX, GUS PnP, GUS PnP Pro
Sound Blaster AWE-32 (Creative Technology, US-Singapore), AWE-64.
A better alternative to FM synthesis: instead of using FM synthesis, the card stores samples on-board.
Wave Table cards are normally capable of changing pich automatically including interpolation where needed, e.g. you need to squeeze the sample twice in order to move to a higher octave which is equivalent to getting an average of two consecutive samples.
Sound patches(GUS), sound fonts (AWE).
GUS - up to 32 active voices, but with only 14 can be used with 44.1 KHz:
| Sampling Rate Hz | Active voices | Sampling rate Hz | Active Voices |
| 44100 | 14 | 25725 | 24 |
| 41160 | 15 | 24696 | 25 |
| 38587 | 16 | 23746 | 26 |
| 36317 | 17 | 22866 | 27 |
| 34300 | 18 | 22050 | 28 |
| 32494 | 19 | 21289 | 29 |
| 30870 | 20 | 20580 | 30 |
| 29400 | 21 | 19916 | 31 |
| 28063 | 22 | 19293 | 32 |
| 26843 | 23 |
AWE-32 32 voices
AWE-64 64 voices (32 voices supported with Linux).
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