Product specifications

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Video Tutorial menu program in the Turtle Beach Montego Home
Studio/Digital Orchestrator Pro directory.
Once you’ve mastered the basics of recording MIDI and digital audio
tracks you can explore some of the more advanced capabilities of the
studio hardware. These features are discussed below. Although you won’t
need to be concerned with most of these features at the start, it’s a good
idea to read the following material to get familiar with the system and it’s
capabilities.
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The Montego II board is the heart of the system and represents the latest
in PCI audio technology. It offers crystal clear digital audio recording and
playback with sample rates up to 48kHz at 16 bit resolution. A hardware
sampler provides 64 hardware voices of synthesis. This synthesizer is DLS
compatible which means you can download new DLS compatible
instrument sounds into the synthesizer for an unlimited palette of sounds.
In addition to the sampler synth, an extra 64 voice daughter card
synthesizer has been provided for a total of 128 hardware synthesizer
voices on 32 MIDI channels. That’s a lot of composing power! This
synthesizer features Roland® GS compliant instrument patches including
285 different instrument sounds and 15 different drum kits!
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Each synthesizer has it’s own software driver to access the synth from
Digital Orchestrator Pro. You can set a track to be played by a particular
synthesizer by selecting it’s port in the port settings for that track. Here
are the port names as they would appear in Digital Orchestrator:
Turtle Beach Montego II Digital I/O MPU-401: The Cancun FX - Roland
GS compliant daughter synth
(This device is also assigned to the MIDI mapper device. Selecting the
MIDI Mapper will send to the daughter synth via the TBS Montego II
MPU-401 driver)
Turtle Beach Montego II Digital I/O MIDI: The Montego II DLS sampler
synth