Sonorus Announces New Audio Card

MEDI/O prototype with optional expansion board

Sonorus, Inc., maker of the award-winning STUDI/O digital audio interface, has announced MEDI/O, a new multimedia sound card designed for professional use.

MEDI/O sports features like balanced inputs and outputs, industry-standard professional connectors, high quality analog and digital audio connections, MIDI and synth connections, and built-in vocal and guitar processing.

"With MEDI/O we hope to address both the enthusiast, just becoming involved with computers and music, as well as the professional user who requires higher performance than available with regular sound cards but needs the standard sound card features," comments Sonorus President Marc Lindahl. "We have put together a board which addresses these needs, and allows for future expansion, integrating seamlessly with our flagship audio card, STUDI/O. And using ASIC technology, we're able to deliver this all for an amazing price."

MEDI/O has a wide array of connections, analog, digital, and MIDI. A breakout cable and optical cables are included, and a rack-mount breakout box is planned.

Analog Connections:

• Stereo XLR MIC in (phantom/comp/lim/gate)
• 2x Stereo 1/4" Balanced Line In
• Guitar In (comp/lim/gate/speaker cabinet simulator)
• Stereo 1/4" Balanced Line Out
• Stereo 1/4" Headphone/Spkr. Out
• CDROM Audio In

Digital Connections:

• ADAT lightpipe I/O (24 bits)
• S/PDIF RCA I/O (20/24 bits)
• Word Clock I/O (75 OhmBNC)
• STUDI/O Sync In Header (ribbon cable)

MIDI Connections:

• WaveBlaster Header
• 64-voice DirectX synth/sampler engine
• 2x MIDI In
• 2x MIDI Thru
• 6x MIDI Out

Software Drivers:

• Windows Wave Drivers: Win95, Win98, WinNT4
• WDM drivers (Windows 2000)
• DirectX/DirectSound drivers
• ASIO drivers (Windows)
• Coming soon: EASI, BeOS, MacOS, LINUX

MEDI/O is compatible with all Windows sound and audio software. Price is to be announced.