On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:42:47PM +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Florian Faber:
How about this: You do what you want with the consumer boards, and leave the pro guys alone. Pro drivers are not 'broken' if they don't implement such a 'feature', they are pro drivers.
Would you take a minute and reconsider this old distinction between "consumer" and "professional"?
In the end it's not the card, it's not the freaking driver. It's the person, of course.
If I would have to make a living from handling expensive audio gear responsibly I'd reach for the right hardware fader *before* I ran anything that could come up rolling and screaming.
I will often fire up a software mixer in the middle of a busy remote recording session (where I don't have the luxury of a mixing desk for monitoring) to send a headphone mix to a musician. It's a lot quicker to use a mixer that starts muted by default than to run back and forth between headphone amp racks and the computer setting levels. Is it irresponsible of me to prefer the convenience of just having to set the levels in the software app? There seems to be some hostility towards the idea that people who rely on this stuff to make their living might have some requirements that are different from those of the average computer user.
I don't have a problem with the average desktop user wanting their sound cards to be easy to use. I just have a problem with the idea that the tools I rely on to do my job might be broken by a "one size fits all" approach to all audio interfaces.
John