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Why did the term “sound card” come back?

fisherrofisherro
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I’ve noticed recently that a lot of people have started calling audio interfaces “sound cards”.

Which was, of course, what we called the audio interfaces that were daughter cards inserted inside desktop computers back-in-the-day. (And I assume there are still some of those still in use in some niche areas.)

Anyone know why this term has recently come back to refer to things that aren’t cards?

Comments

  • TarekithTarekith

    I didn’t realize it ever went away!

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    🤣

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    For the lolz. :lol:

  • McDMcD

    OK went to Sweetwater and used search on “Sound Card” and it delivered a page of “Audio Interfaces” (external boxes interfaced with USB, Firewire). There was also a few “PCI Audio Interfaces” which are really “Sound Cards”. It’s getting harder to find a computer that actually has an expansion slot and it it does it probably requires a fan to cool it down which is NOT a good idea for studio gear.

  • Edward_AlexanderEdward_Alexander

    I think I still have my old Sound Blaster 16, and I think a newer SB Awe64 Gold in one of my boxes of old computer parts. Yeah those were sound cards.

  • McDMcD

    @Edward_Alexander said:
    I think I still have my old Sound Blaster 16, and I think a newer SB Awe64 Gold in one of my boxes of old computer parts. Yeah those were sound cards.

    The Gravis UltraSound with on-board RAM slots (fully loaded with 4 x 1MB as I recall). Best used with a variety of tracker apps.

  • KrupaKrupa

    Terratec ews sampler thing plus their MTS with the breakout box was my insane setup ~2001

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    Be careful. If the kids discover it, they’ll ruin it, like saying “vinyls” plural, when they mean “records.”

    [shakes fist at cloud}

  • buskerbusker

    @Krupa said:
    Terratec ews sampler thing plus their MTS with the breakout box was my insane setup ~2001

    Ha, I was using the EWS64 XL in ‘98. I never knew anyone else with the same card (I believe Terratec was more popular in Europe, but they were pretty obscure in NA)

  • KrupaKrupa

    @busker said:

    @Krupa said:
    Terratec ews sampler thing plus their MTS with the breakout box was my insane setup ~2001

    Ha, I was using the EWS64 XL in ‘98. I never knew anyone else with the same card (I believe Terratec was more popular in Europe, but they were pretty obscure in NA)

    Yet i think I got the ews in the nineties sometime, and then the multi channel thing in 2000ish, they were finicky as eff to set up, and eventually I gave up as I was spending more time messing about with drivers and silliness then making tunes…

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