• Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You can still get discrete sound cards (both internal and USB), though they’re more for audiophile stuff. With the PS5 touting big 3d audio improvements and HRTFs I half expected manufacturers to make a push to bring them back or at least feature sound features more prominantly in motherboards but I guess CPUs these days can just spare the cycles if you want fancy audio.

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      4 months ago

      Generating music still benefits from offloading to discrete devices though. Like using a synth or multitrack stuff.

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      Modern CPUs can do all the audio processing you’d ever need (maybe barring some professional use cases like making music or editing a movie).

      Audiophile external audio devices are just doing the conversion from a digital signal to an analogue signal.