Hi, what program are you going to be using to record or do work?
Are you just looking for a basic sound card or an audio interface? Audio
interfaces are used for more pro and/or pro-sumer (as some call it) work, while
the sound cards are more for your average work and simple recordings, where
latency is not a big issue; with audio interfaces, drivers are written and
hardware is used to lower latency to acceptable levels.
There's not a turely 100% accessible sound card or interface control panel as
far as I know, but with certain tools or workarounds you can control most if
not all parameters of certain devices.
HTH, DJX
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Petr Parízek
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 6:48 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] How do I know which sound cards are "accessible"? Or has
someone made a list of these?
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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