[BC] Simian and Soundcards

[Jerry Mathis]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Kevin Raper <kj4hyd at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 1, 2012, at 1:41 PM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:

>>We changed from an Audio Science to a high end consumer soundcard, and
>>really couldn't tell a difference ...   Larger market experience may
>>vary...

>I am using Simian 1.7 on one station and Simian 1.8 on the other with Soundblaster Sound Cards

>73,
>Kevin Raper
>KJ4HYD
>CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ

At a former job, we ran Wavestation (precursor to Simian), and we used a lot of Soundblaster sound cards. It was a bad experience. The Soundblaster cards weren't set up to handle things like cross-fades very well, and the program "locking up" was a common phenomena. BSI had no solution other than get the recommended sound cards, which were thousands of dollars each. We were a non-profit company, and we didn't have money for that. We used Antex sound cards with somewhat more success, but we could never get the Wavestation program to run reliably.

BSI was supposed to be the "poor man's automation system", but by the time you bought all the recommended hardware to make it work, it was about as expensive as other systems.

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Jerry Mathis