John Rigg wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:14:44PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
That sounds reasonable for now. Professional sound card users will maybe just have to remember to mute the master control before connecting their speakers.
A better solution IMO would be to make the default behaviour of the pro/semi-pro sound cards default to minimum gain with everything muted, and do what you're suggesting with other cards.
If non-pro users want to use pro cards (which are fairly specialised after all), they can unmute things. The idea of, say, starting up the hdsp mixer for an RME HDSP MADI card and having all 64 channels come up at 0dB is pretty frightening. Anything which can start in such a potentially dangerous state is unusable in a professional context.
John
I haven't got any skin in this game as either way is fine for me. But to contribute I thought I would ask a couple of questions.
Is there a way to identify whether a card is pro or casual? Number of channels? DACs? Chipsets?
How is this handled on other OSs? Windows, Mac, Sun?