Hi Carol, I have the platinum version and a surround sound system and I had
to ask for sighted help to calibrate the speakers, I tried to play around
with sound effects and all that when I first got the card and realised
pretty soon that it was impossible to operate these features successfully
with the shark as most of the time, it is pretty hit or miss. I suppose that
if you had someone with peepers in working order patient enough to work with
you, you might be able to label the graphics but I haven't got that luxury
commodity.
I'm not a sound expert but I couldn't stand any crackle or distortion and I
definitely do not get any of that with my card.
Having the plugs at the front is really nice, you can alter the volume or
switch off the mike from the front pannel as well. Mine has a remote control
as well from which you can, apparently start and shut off your pc if it is
on stand by mode but I haven't learnt to use this. The record main button is
accessible but all the other settings for different types of recordings are
not so easily gettable at, at least, not by me, cos I just dabble with
things and am too lazy to study hard and learn to use all the features of
techy things properly. I often wonder how the people who know all these
things can remember them all...
Cheers now.
Marie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: EMU SOUND CARDS
Marie,
That's very useful, thanks. Could you elaborate a bit on the nice features that have to be altered with sighted help? Thanks.
-- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Baisez" <marie.baisez@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:49 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: EMU SOUND CARDS
yes, the S.B. audigy give you access at the front, my audigy 2 does. It's very convenient. The only trouble with audigy is that the nice features that come with the card are not easily accessible by screenreaders. So, if you haven't got sighted help easily available that might not be the best choice for you.
All the best, and good luck in your search...
Marie
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:09 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: EMU SOUND CARDS
Carol, I cannot be of tremendous help here, and maybe Tristram will be along
before the day's out. Anyway, when you speak of access via the front of the
Pc, well, yes, that's very convenient and that's accomplished sometimes by a
break-out box sized to fit a drive bay at the front. I think, but am not
certain, that the SB Audigy's take this approach and when there's enough
drive bay space it works quite nicely.
Other than that, manufacturers of audio orientated PCs often just have a panel with leads extending back to the rear of the machine to facilitate more convenient plugging via a front patchbay. The only cards I've seen much of at the cheaper end are the M=-Audio ones but I'm not sure if M-Audio - or whatever they might be called now - do a card that's particularly suited to what you appear to be after.
I'll email you off-list if I come across anything that looks like what you
are after.
From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carol Pearson Sent: 30 June 2006 07:51 SOUND CARDS
Hi all,
Although I realise there are perhaps more appropriate lists for such
questions, I have already tried and have had very little response. Seeing a
reference in another post to EMU sound cards on this list, I started to
troll the Internet but, as always, got rather tired . . .. Hope you'll
therefore be able to respond to this one.
I'm looking for a better quality (not necessarily top range) sound card,
preferably that has ins and outs on the front of the computer. In addition,
I need something operating completely independently from the AC97 so as to
avoid any possible hitches in having two sound cards running on this
computer.
Any suggestions most welcome, then I can limit the amount of searching through reviews that I need to do.
Thanks.
-- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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