Montego II Home Studio - FAQs

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Product Information
                          Montego II Home Studio(TM)

                       Music and Audio Production System

              Transform your PC into a digital recording studio!

The Montego II Home Studio seamlessly integrates Voyetra's award-winning 
MIDI/Digital audio sequencer, Digital Orchestrator Pro(TM), with the powerful
Montego II(TM) sound card, into an all-in-one integrated, easy-to-use 
environment. 

Built-in enhancements such as 18-bit digital audio recording, a S/PDIF 
digital I/O interface, a 64-voice Roland GS-compliant synthesizer, 
a 64-voice DLS-compatible sampler, an external MIDI interface, built-in 
effects and more, provide all the composing power you need for 
professional-grade recordings. 

Record and edit both MIDI and digital audio tracks side by side in one 
intuitive and easy-to-use environment.  Built-in multi-track recording lets 
you record vocals, guitars, and other acoustic instruments alongside of 
your MIDI tracks.  Add digital FX including reverb, delay, chorus, flange, 
pitch shift and more.  Create a lossless digital mixdown to DAT via the 
S/PDIF digital interface. 

Digital recording, digital synthesis, digital effects and digital mixdown 
all add up to a crystal-clear recording.  

All from the company that pioneered pro audio hardware for the PC platform -
Turtle Beach.

 1. Connect external synths and sound modules through the MIDI cable 
    that is included. 
 2. Use your studio mixer to select the input instrument, or plug directly 
    in to the sound card.  Full-duplex allows you to listen to tracks
    you've recorded while simultaneously laying down new ones. 
 3. Transfer music, samples and other audio material from your CD drive 
    to the hard drive for editing and archiving.  (18-bit audio resolution
    maintains CD quality.) 
 4. Transfer digital signals from S/PDIF equipped DAT machines, hard 
    disc recorders, sound modules and other outboard gear directly to 
    the PC's hard drive via coax or optical I/O. 
 5. Store instrument patches, sample libraries, digital audio files, MIDI 
    songs and more on the PC's hard drive. 
 6. Play and record stereo digital audio directly to external DAT, hard 
    disc or minidisk recorders through the S/PDIF interface. 
 7. High-speed bus-mastering scatter-gather PCI audio interface provides 
    super high-speed data transfer to the PC's hard drive for smooth 
    playback of recorded material. 
 8. Professional 64-voice sampler lets you play MIDI tracks enhanced with
    global FX processors.  Auxiliary software synth voices provide 
    additional 256 voices for extra composing power.  Use your existing
    system memory as sample RAM to create and download your own custom 
    sample libraries. 
 9. A second Roland GS compliant wavetable synth adds 64 voices enhanced 
    with channelized FX processing for a total of 128 hardware voices and 
    256 soft voices on 32 MIDI channels. 
10. Record your finished MIDI and digital audio stereo mix to an external 
    two-track analog recorder. 
11. Monitor your production with external power amp and speakers. 
12. Use the aux stereo outputs for an extra set of headphones, or separate 
    monitor mix.

Key Features
* >97 dB signal-to-noise ratio
* 18-bit audio converters
* RCA and optical digital I/O
* MIDI synthesizer featuring Roland GM/GS support
* Up to 96 hardware-accelerated DirectSound streams
* Voyetra's Digital Orchestrator Pro digital audio and MIDI sequencing 
  software (full version)
* MIDI and digital audio editing tools
* 10-band graphic EQ with digital display
* 128 hardware wavetable voices
* 256 software synth voices 

Hardware Included
* Turtle Beach Montego II sound card 
* Dual MIDI synthesizers 
* RCA and Optical Digital I/O Board 
* Turtle Beach Applications CD with Voyetra software suite 
* MIDI interface cable 
* CD Audio cable 
* S/PDIF RCA connectors on separate PC bracket 
* Getting Started Guide 

Software Included
* Voyetra Digital Orchestrator Pro(TM)
* PC Audio Mixer 
* AudioStation(R) 32 
* AudioView 32(TM)
* MIDI Orchestrator 32(TM)
* Sound Check(TM)
* Demo song files
* Drivers for Windows(R) 95/98/NT 4.0

Specifications
* Bus interface: PCI Bus master with 96 channel DMA interface insures 
  low system overhead for audio data transfers. 
* Compatibility: Windows 95 / 98 / NT 4.0, Plug'n'Play-compatible. 
* Audio converters: 
    - 18-bit ADC and DAC.
    - Hardware-based sample rate converters for high-quality digital mixing. 
* Signal-to-Noise: > 97 dB (A-weighted). 
* THD: > 90 dB (0.0032%) (A-weighted). 
* Stereo crosstalk: 1 KHz (-83 dB) 100 Hz (-97 dB) 
* Frequency Response: 10 Hz - 20.5 KHz (+/-1 dB). 
* Sampling Rates: up to 48 KHz. 
* Games compatibility: compatible with all standard Windows games and most 
  DOS games (in Real Mode DOS). DOS game compatability not available in NT. 
* Digital audio processor
    - Hardware full-duplex for simultaneous record/playback at full 
      bandwidth with independent record/playback rate. 
    - Auto-muting after periods of digital silence. 
    - 16 hardware digital mixers for processing PCI audio streams. 
* Sample rate converters: hardware-based sample rate converters for 
  processing digital audio streams of different sample rates without
  imposing any CPU processing load. 
* Aureal 3D 2.0 interactive sound: hardware-based A3D positional audio 
  wave-tracing engine with wall reflections and occlusions (64 sources). 
* Audio inputs/outputs: 
    - mono microphone input
    - stereo line input
    - stereo line output
    - stereo aux input on internal header
    - CD input on internal header
    - modem audio in/out on internal header
* Wavetable synthesizer
    - 64-voice hardware + 256-voice hardware-accelerated software 
      advanced wavetable synthesis
    - 5 MB instrument samples stored in PC system RAM using DynamicVoice 
      Exchange(TM) caching, to minimize RAM requirements to only the 
      instruments being used.  
    - Reverberation and chorus on MIDI wavetable instruments.  
    - DLS-compatible for user-configurable instruments. 
* Synthesizer Daughter Board
    - 64-voice advanced wavetable synthesis with Roland GS-compliant 
      instruments.  
    - Channelized digital effects include reverb and chorus. 
* MIDI interface: hardware-based MPU-401 MIDI UART-compatible interface 
  through joystick connector. 
* Joystick interface: as well as providing standard analog/digital 
  joystick support, the digital joystick further accelerates game play
  by performing remote polling of the joystick position without CPU
  intervention. 
* S/PDIF: Allows In/Out with RCA and optical connectors for recording 
  and playback of pure digital audio (requires an available space for 
  the bracket). 
* MIDI interface cable: connects to joystick port to control external 
  MIDI devices via the MIDI port. 

Minimum System Requirements
* IBM(R) PC or compatible computer running Windows(R) 95, 98 or NT 4.0 
* 75 MHz Pentium CPU or higher
* 6 MB RAM (4 MB required for wavetable instrument sounds) 
* 12 MB hard disk space for software installation 
* Available PCI slot 
* CD-ROM required for software installation 
* Powered speakers and/or headphones 

** Windows NT does not support A3D positional sound. 
** DOS Game compatibility not available in NT. 

                  (c) 1999 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.

Montego II Home Studio, AudioStation 32, MIDI Orchestrator 32, AudioView 32
and Digital Orchestrator Pro are trademarks of Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. 
AudioStation, Voyetra and the Voyetra logo are registered trademarks of
Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.  Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corporation.  Roland is a trademark.  All other trademarks are the property 
of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged.

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