Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards?

Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards? by xhevahir on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:41PM (#32681042)

I don't know. I didn't think a mere audio interface plus soundfonts was an adequate replacement for a really good soundcard like the Yamaha SW100XG: https://www.musicradar.com/news/blast-from-the-past-yamaha-s... .

Then there's Korg's Oasys PCI, which was so powerful that for a long time people kept using Windows 98 after Korg stopped making drivers: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/korg-oasys-pci

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards? by squeaky-clean on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:26PM (#32683465)

For playing older games that relied on that hardware, sure soundfonts aren't a great replacement. But modern games moved away from needing to use a soundcard audio engine and are just able to completely do it on the CPU, and the only real benefit of the soundcard at that point is the latency/dac/amp

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