10.1.5, 800Mhz, Trio, 7k, Audiophile 2496 :-) |
October, 03, 2002 1:31 PM |
macman |
For a change, here's a report of success: All the listed devices are happy and playing well in my 8600 running 10.1.5. I have an 8600/300, 1GB RAM, 800Mhz, Sonnet Trio, ATI Radeon 7k, M-Audio Audiophile 2496, boot drive is Seagate 80GB. When Sonnet announces the updates for the Trio for Jaguar, and I go to the store to get another drive, I'll upgrade and give a followup report. In the meantime, I am happy to report that the swap of my Sonnet ATA100 card for the trio and the insertion of the Audiophile card went easily. The machine booted to 9 because the card didn't respond properly at first startup (or was it XPF was looking for another card?). Once everything was installed properly in 9, I reinstalled the XPF extensions, rebooted to X and haven't looked back. I did note that the PowerLogix Cache Control software broke during the install. Not sure what caused the damage, so I had to uninstall & reinstall. Has anyone noticed that the uninstall script doesn't completely remove everything on the first try? I have had to run it at least three times to completely remove the old files. I tried out Felt Tip Software's Sound Studio. It's really great for bringing audio into X with the Audiophile card. I say really great because it meets the needs of my project: I have about 3k LP records, nearly 1k cassette tapes, and a few hundred reel to reel tapes that all need converting to CD/mp3. The Sound Studio software has a 'split' function based on markers that can be placed in the finished recording. Once the file is split, I can drag & drop these files into iTunes, assign tags, and convert to mp3. Super Simple! I didn't notice any pops, clicks, or other artifacts introduced in the sound input. I know that I should turn off seti@home when doing audio work, but it didn't seem to cause problems. One last point: Remembering all the issues with drivers and what software/hardware works/doesn't work is getting almost to the point of the complexity of my windows box. :-( Stephen |
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RE: 10.1.5, 800Mhz, Trio, 7k, Audiophile 2496 :-) |
October, 17, 2002 8:53 AM |
brfransen |
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Macman, Yeah, it did load the CPU but I never experienced any cutouts and i only have a G3/450. Many times while I was import audio I would be downloading from the Internet and exporting a file in QT to another format. Yes the CPU was pegged at 100% but I never had any audio drop outs. I guess that CoreAudio was doing its' job and living up to the claim latency specs. I will have to Studio Sound. CD Spin Doctor worked fine but there is no way to edit or crop the audio stream. I just used QT to edit and then would export it to AIFF. Then I would open it up in CD Spin Doctor again and set up the track breaks and then send it to Toast to burn. Worked well for me except that CD Spin Doctor did crash a few times, but never when I was importing audio. Britney |
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RE: 10.1.5, 800Mhz, Trio, 7k, Audiophile 2496 :-) |
October, 16, 2002 10:05 PM |
macman |
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I also saw the iMic comments and so did not go for that solution. I also read some things about the CPU hit for a USB-audio converter and that they had a tendency to drop out during high CPU load. I thought about getting a video/audio firewire device, like the hollywood bridge, but the cost was prohibitive, plus there was no guarantee that it didn't have the CPU load. The audiophile card has no CPU load that I can see, plus it has a ton of inputs and outputs. Coupled with the sound manager contols in the preferences panel, I can avoid alert noises and other program sounds from coming through the output. I also selected this card because of the digital inputs as well as the copy control. I have a minidisc (instead of an ipod) and copy control is an issue. Also, I plan to do the LP to digital recording with a new Stanton turntable (the ones that have digital outputs), thus, digital was important, but not as important as high quality analog sound. I did not test the microphone port before making the purchase because I did not want to feed line level inputs or get line-to-mike filters due to fidelity issues. of course, going to MP3 removes some of those fidelity arguments. :-/ issues that I have found with the soundstudio software: current version 2.0.5 can't do mixed pastes under X. The next version is supposed to fix this. also, i found that unless I'm using the mac while recording, the os will have a hard siezure within 10 minutes of otherwise idle recording. Browsing the web is enough to keep it from crashing. I tried some other software but didn't like it. I haven't seen other software supporting the 'split' function like sound studio. it makes it really easy to record a long section, then cut it apart (with the marker having the name of the piece), to get AIFF files with the right names. Pretty slick! currently I have *problems* with my hardware, so I can't say anything more about the hardware/software. |
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RE: 10.1.5, 800Mhz, Trio, 7k, Audiophile 2496 :-) |
October, 16, 2002 4:07 PM |
marcush |
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Really, I had gotten the impression that the iMic would not work. I think I read it in someone else's comments here. I'll look into it. Can anyone else confirm that the iMic works for them as well? |
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RE: 10.1.5, 800Mhz, Trio, 7k, Audiophile 2496 :-) |
October, 16, 2002 2:11 PM |
brfransen |
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Marcush, If you are willing to spend $35 the Griffin iMic works great for importing audio from analog devices. I just did this this week to import some old cassettes I had to CD. Worked like a charm. I used Roxio's CD Spin Doctor included with Toast and it worked pretty well. Britney |
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RE: 10.1.5, 800Mhz, Trio, 7k, Audiophile 2496 :-) |
October, 16, 2002 1:46 PM |
marcush |
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Macman, did you test the built-in microphone port before you bought the Audiophile 2496? I'm curious because I realized last night that sound input is not working on my Power Tower Pro. Actually, I'll boot into 9.1 tonight to make sure that it still works under classic. I have been waiting for independently developed drivers for my Soundblaster but that project reportedly has had a setback recently. I have some records and cassettes that I want to convert too but am now considering other alternatives. I could try to do this under OS 9 but the Creative drivers just aren't reliable enough. |
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