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There has been much talk in this thread about sound cards — especially the wavetable type. My advice: FORGET WAVETABLE CARDS! You don't need 'em when you have a standard .MIDi music file you want to play at the highest quality and record to tape or embed into a .AVI or QuickTime animation. Instead there is a new, very nifty little $69.95 CD-ROM-based utility called "MIDI Renderer" which does just that: it renders .MID files to .WAV format, utilizing true CD-quality (in fact, they're right there on the CD!) stereo 16-bit 44.1kHz samples of all 128 of the General MIDI instrument sounds! Just feed it any GM or most any GS compatible .MID file and it spits out a stereo 16-bit 44.1kHz CD-quality .WAV file which you can then merge with a QuickTime or .AVI or convert to AIFF for importing into Mac-based non-linear editing suites, etc. etc. etc.! With MIDI Renderer around, all you need a wavetable card for is getting cool music with Doom and similar games and other real-time .MIDi playback.