They both make good multichannel audio interfaces at a good value for the price. I've gone with Echo Audio in the past, and not been entirely happy with the drivers, stability, and support. Interfaces are available as either PCI cards with connectors/cables, pci cards with a breakout box, or (my recommendation) an external box with firewire connectivity. It's the most flexible, you can position the unit away from the PC to avoid RF interference, and in my experience works at least as well as those with dedicated PCI cards.
I bought it because it's all that was available where I was shopping, and this thing is worthless. It basically plays a MIDI file that YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE, and determines how accurately you can play it. That's it.
The problem is with idiots who believe that they can judge the quality of a product by the shoes of it's creator. Noone ever complains about my t-shirt, Dickies shorts, and piercings when I'm done fixing their shit... in fact, I'm the one they ask for by name.
Some of us feel that being proficient at your job and being comfortable are much more important than being a shortsighted, uninformed asshole in a fancy monkey suit.
First off, that sentence doesn't even make sense. "Measure the CD in cycles per second"? What does that mean, exactly?
And besides, it's not like there isn't a direct correlation between the two... 1KB will always equal 8Kb. Whether stored or transferred, a bit is a bit and a byte is a byte. First time, last time, every time.
Being totally addicted to bass (inside reference), having had huge car soundsystems since 15 (yes, before I could even drive), and raving all night literally hundreds of times, I have noticeable (but not severe) hearing loss and slight tinitus. I got 17ms.
That's what the volume control is for. Changing the amplitude is not going to change the relative pitch of two sounds played at the same volume.
I'm 28, and got 17ms. I've also played many different intruments over the years, and am a House DJ. For those not familiar with the genre, spinning House involves playing 2 (or sometimes 3 or 4) different records at once, keeping them all perfectly synchronized while mixing levels and EQ blending.
I wonder if the ability comes from the experience, or if aptitude in that area made me more likely to get into music.
As opposed to the 30 year old blown speakers in some shitty club, cranked up way past the limits of the system, pumping out more distortion than music? Not that there aren't good sounding systems out there, but it's not likely this band is going to be playing on one, in your area, anytime soon.
Your Super Nintendo didn't run Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Norton Antivirus, and several dozen windows services while simultaneously playing those games, either.
Kind of esoteric, and not extremely practical, but you can have one sound card (or even your voice modem's audio channel) as Windows' default sound playback device with no speakers attached, then play your desired program through the second card. This will only work with apps where you can specify where to send the output, but it's an option. I'm running on-board sound plus a mult-channel rackmount sound interface, and it'll do this.
You're right. Instead of asking thousands of people who might be dealing with similar issues, taking their advice into consideration as well as speaking to a professional, he should just go to one doctor. Because that one doctor is God. Noone has ever said, "My doctor told me to to X, but I've found that Y is a better solution."
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Aah... I'd only read the second article earlier today, didn't notice there was another posted here.
You should be using a controler with a dedicated processor, anyway.
"Noone should produce or play video games ever again, because it's been done before and I'm better than that" sounds pretty cynical to me.
Congratulations on becoming a crotchety, cynical fuck. Sounds like it's working out well for you.
Don't you have kids to chase off your lawn, or something?
They both make good multichannel audio interfaces at a good value for the price. I've gone with Echo Audio in the past, and not been entirely happy with the drivers, stability, and support. Interfaces are available as either PCI cards with connectors/cables, pci cards with a breakout box, or (my recommendation) an external box with firewire connectivity. It's the most flexible, you can position the unit away from the PC to avoid RF interference, and in my experience works at least as well as those with dedicated PCI cards.
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I bought it because it's all that was available where I was shopping, and this thing is worthless. It basically plays a MIDI file that YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE, and determines how accurately you can play it. That's it.
n/t
The problem is with idiots who believe that they can judge the quality of a product by the shoes of it's creator. Noone ever complains about my t-shirt, Dickies shorts, and piercings when I'm done fixing their shit... in fact, I'm the one they ask for by name.
Some of us feel that being proficient at your job and being comfortable are much more important than being a shortsighted, uninformed asshole in a fancy monkey suit.
The problem is on THEIR side.
First off, that sentence doesn't even make sense. "Measure the CD in cycles per second"? What does that mean, exactly? And besides, it's not like there isn't a direct correlation between the two... 1KB will always equal 8Kb. Whether stored or transferred, a bit is a bit and a byte is a byte. First time, last time, every time.
into the real world, right? Why are they developing nuclear pebble bed reactors in laboratories, when I can't buy one at the 7-11 yet?
and storage in KB? It's not like we measure radio waves in cycles per second and sound waves in cycles per 8 seconds. What's the advantage?
Maybe.
Being totally addicted to bass (inside reference), having had huge car soundsystems since 15 (yes, before I could even drive), and raving all night literally hundreds of times, I have noticeable (but not severe) hearing loss and slight tinitus. I got 17ms.
That's what the volume control is for. Changing the amplitude is not going to change the relative pitch of two sounds played at the same volume.
I'm 28, and got 17ms. I've also played many different intruments over the years, and am a House DJ. For those not familiar with the genre, spinning House involves playing 2 (or sometimes 3 or 4) different records at once, keeping them all perfectly synchronized while mixing levels and EQ blending. I wonder if the ability comes from the experience, or if aptitude in that area made me more likely to get into music.
n/t
And I've only had 3 hours of sleep in the past two days due to illness. No wonder I've got mad DJ skillz :)
Great movie. Saw it in the theater when I was 6 or 7. I really can't defend the dialogue, though :)
Someone will just root your external integrity checker eventually anyway.
As opposed to the 30 year old blown speakers in some shitty club, cranked up way past the limits of the system, pumping out more distortion than music? Not that there aren't good sounding systems out there, but it's not likely this band is going to be playing on one, in your area, anytime soon.
It's been done a thousand times, each more tedious than the last.
Every OS has them available freely, it would be a good idea to doublecheck before making hardware purchases for ANY os (Windows excluded).
Your Super Nintendo didn't run Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Norton Antivirus, and several dozen windows services while simultaneously playing those games, either.
Kind of esoteric, and not extremely practical, but you can have one sound card (or even your voice modem's audio channel) as Windows' default sound playback device with no speakers attached, then play your desired program through the second card. This will only work with apps where you can specify where to send the output, but it's an option. I'm running on-board sound plus a mult-channel rackmount sound interface, and it'll do this.
You're right. Instead of asking thousands of people who might be dealing with similar issues, taking their advice into consideration as well as speaking to a professional, he should just go to one doctor. Because that one doctor is God. Noone has ever said, "My doctor told me to to X, but I've found that Y is a better solution."
Ever.