Hello everyone,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but in case it isn't, I'll be
very happy if you suggest a different place to me. I'm asking here because I
have no idea who might know the answer.
I'm planning to buy a new desktop PC (probably with Windows 10) within a few
months and I'd like to buy a good-quality sound card since I work with sound
both in my work and for my private tasks. However, the controling software
for some sound cards often has so few keyboard commands that sometimes even
elementary tasks (like selecting a different recording input) can't be done
without clicking the mouse.
Back in the days of Windows 98, there was the Creative Sound Blaster Live
1024. Not only was its software very keyboard-friendly but even individual
parameters of the effects were totally adjustable completely with the
keyboard.
Later, I bought the XFi Elite Pro (also from Creative) and even though its
effect unit was completely inaccessible to me, I could at least change the
recording input successfully or change the input or output sampling rate or
bit depth.
Recently, I was trying to do something on a school computer, only to
discover (believe it or not) that the software which installed the sound
card drivers had also uninstalled the ordinary Volume Control application
and replaced it by its own -- you guess it -- which didn't offer (by
default) keystrokes for changing the voume or the outputs or even for
changing the master volume! (Those had to be defined by someone who could
look at the screen.)
I'm wondering what I should do if I don't want to buy a sound card whose
controling software would turn out to be lacking keyboard commands for
adjusting the playback. I'm gradually losing my hope that there would now
exist a sound card whose effect unit would be accessible via keyboard
commands. But maybe there still is one somewhere, I just need to find the
right people who would know about that.
Any suggestions on what steps I should take or whom I should contact for any
advice on this topic?
Thanks an awwwful lot in advance.
Petr
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