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I was hoping it'd be a very cool soundcard, perhaps with unlimited General Midi channels.

If somebody ever buys up the Gravis Ultrasound name, you’ll know things are about to get wild.

10^5 orchestra hit polyphony.

Finally a realistic helicopter sound?

what is the reference here, out of curiosity

I am referencing one of the sound-effects contained in General MIDI. GM gives you many sounda of instruments like piano, harpsichord, guitar etc.

But it also contains these (much to the fun of everybody who ever played around with a GM keyboard):

  125 Telephone Ring
  126 Helicopter
  127 Applause
  128 Gunshot

I can clearly hear in my head myself repeatedly playing middle C and going through that sequence of patches.