User reviews: Hercules Studio ISIS

11/22/12

zindozs's review ( translated ) Improve this translation " A musthave for nostalgia!"

Sound card Guillemot Maxi Studio ISIS is a PCI sound card with an additional extension box 8/4 + MIDI + SPDIF.

This card was released in the late 90s, and ran under Windows 95/98/Me only. W2000/XP systems and higher are not compatible ...

The "PCI" this set has standard I / O (Line in and out, Mic Port Midi / games), and a web of internal link connects to a riser connection with the outer casing. This card features a RAM Expansion for function "sampler" and soundfont management and a DSP chip.

The outer casing is equipped with 8 analog inputs and 4 outputs 6.35 jack, MIDI thru in out, in out and SPDIF coax and optical in.

The recording mode is accomplished by "direct to disc", ensuring very low latency. Converters are accurate and do not generate virtually no harmonics.

A great little system for a good start in home studio.

Utilization

This card offers a great stability, and its interface facilitates the mapping of I / O settings and levels. ASIO drivers are compatible despite his age.

Mode ensures direct to disk latency below 40ms.

Getting Started

Mechanically speaking, the installation is a breeze, with respect to drivers, ibid. The only real difficulty is to understand the correspondence cursors console settings compared to I / O The manual is pretty vague about it here.

Overall Opinion

I started the home studio with this product in 1999, and I also apparent from time to time, as part soundfont is just perfect. The DAW used is not the one that came with (Logic Audio), but Magix Music Studio 2005, still compatible W98. Employing this medieval OS is not very disabling because the PC used is disproportionate to W98 with its 1GHz processor and 256MB of ram :)

The HDD used for multi-track taken is SCSI, which ensures optimal access!

Not a wrinkle, and ergonomics nice, this sound card still has many services to make ...

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11/05/11

Fab29's review ( translated ) Improve this translation " Revolutionary"

Characteristics

I bought it for what it can do

MIDI and audio interface

to play at home and save

config on which I was mounted on top of the time a Pentium III 533

Utilization

it has not always been perfectly stable

but now it has been since 2002

seamless

I record with cool edit pro ISIS

I drive for MIDI with Orion

it works very well without any problems

Logic Pro ISIS has never fully worked

Getting Started

the installer will ask to have a little pioneer spirit

it was not plug and play, it was not enough to plug a USB, it was necessary to open and tools, an era ... music and the joys of DIY

Overall Opinion

I never stopped using it since 1999 and has never shown any weakness

Recorder Cool Edit Pro that came with ISIS is still relevant, he recorded a very practical and I have never found better

logic pro ISIS was not easy for a beginner and I believe I lost a lot of time trying to run some things that have never worked, it was good for MIDI, but for audio, fortunately I found it easier or I would have discouraged

I remain a fan of this card which at the time was the best value and which today seems not to age, as the PC is, I keep

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05/11/07

Fender2a's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

Buy 98 was the only offer that price an external rack, 8 inputs, a software package correctly.

Use: amateur home studio to record guitars, keyboards, live

Pc config: AMD Athlon 1, go two partitioned hard drives: one for the Millennium isis xp and the other for the rest.

Utilization

The installation is a little pb or two but if you use the latest drivers (dj old) and we follow the procedure it's all good.

So the only pb is not support XP but since I partitioned my drive so it runs in this millennium and I have no pb stabilit.je can say that it does not crash ever.

Getting Started

I use with: Vst5 Cubase, Acid Pro and wavelab

Audio did not record that I have no pb latency.

Overall Opinion

Over time since 1998 I admit I have trouble Spar me my isis.

Really good product for its time, too bad it is not in Xp perenne.

If I had to buy it back one day I will.

On my site I cre a small space on the Isis, come check it out and share your expriences

http://jmantoni.capitello.com

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11/29/06

Hawkai's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

In Foreword should read this in context, I bought this card it Yadji a locker and era all the pretty cards from M-Audio, Edirol, Echo and other ca n ' existed. -> Before dropping a product thinking that it is necessary to compare what is comparable both in terms of price and era.

Choice motivated by the fact that c'tait the era, the only card to do really and allow full duplex recording multiport. Creative still silent which the main competitor of Guillemot is not screwed into line with the ISIS or in terms of conection or in terms of full duplex ... larger MODELS SB are still in RCA or minijack without port din noon and of course there's never more than 5.1 but poor between Stereo multimedia microphone 2 ball. SB is really perfect for multimedia and gaming, but for computer music, to forget.

-> Motivation Premire the price! bah so the era for the equivalent in terms of ES was tapper in Digi001 ... May 4 CHRE times (and standard PC There's more compatibility).

Usage: Multimedia, games and music (computer music PPRE what)

It has gone through a lot of configuration ... the only constant and the only real complaint, I think, is that they do guillemot condemned this card toting Win98.

Mostly guitar and voice (but I go through a Mackie console)

+ Master keyboard and vsti

Utilization

Installation: bah decision-heads that resolve over time, but it's even the common lot in this dommaine, trs few cards really work the first time on all the configuration. But not compatible with XP.

Bah no incompatibility material ... but without wishing to rpter ... a small problem for some drivers to OS ... XP kind :-)

Manuals blah, but not really ncessaire, configuration utilities not too bad damn I find, even from some current cards + high-end (like in Edirol seems stingy particulirement cot utilities configuration / soft mix)

I would be nice on the notes of this card pasque qd mm it has made me good and loyal service for some 6 or 7 years ... and will continue even may be a little Registration of RPET wild.

I would be nice EXCEPT This category because Hercules / Guillemot has really dropped the ball on the XP drivers. What will be worth Herclues I do not care about audio at all its products "high end" (the fortissimo for multimedia is not bad ...) but the new 16/16 will be without me ca !

Getting Started

Stability of drivers ... blah ... ca shit as always from time to time but just know if it's really the sound card drivers? In most cases ca can be also problem of motherboard, power supply to the PCI configuration in a few maps and loads with no power supply short top ... nothing to jump up and down or yelling death.

Drivers set date ... I think it is not worth more rpter eh?

Latency ... insufficient bie heard VSTi ... but there is a Wavetable (see APRS)

Software: all a little essay, Cubase VST, sx, VERY light versions of Pro Tools, Logic version that came with the card (the package for soft qd mm is not too bad, surtt for the era), samplitude qqs other briefly and trs. Cubase SX1 for the biggest.

Audio track in 8 mm time ... it works with some dsagrments sometimes but it works.

There's twelve o'clock in the margin in GM, bcp less vst.

Overall Opinion

I would not say that the particular feature that is in my view is not quite lgitime Carche above him like some may do so: His report quality price next to the extremely limited market the era of its release and Wavetable.

I saw about a qq'un in a forum: No wavetable card pro n'intgre of personal and I find it trs damage. Ok GM is not terrible, but it is sometimes convenient qd mm and the synths on this one of the ISIS is rather excellent, a multilayer qd mm guele more than a lot of stuff even today (type in crative ...) kits batteries are pretty short to be small squence twelve o'clock it's still a good map trs.

So of course it is a limited use trs prs 2000 but little balls There's 10 years ... What you expect? It's not a pro card, or even semi-pro, it's just the only card that allowed the era to learn without computer music dbourser 10 000 francs.

And it was even when we MRIT hello and that its existence shall adopt the crucified ...

Because if I had to finish this choice again ... Well yes I would do in the context or I did is say it Yadji a good time and with a limited budget trs. Over 7 years I think she made me a lot of services in relation to material that bcp might have done (and also show that AC can take the long hard and not burn out after a year). Nevertheless, I still have a little trouble replacing it because some features not found on current maps as well as lower than mid-range (Vidament when tappe of RME in the ca change ... the deal).

Currently Obviously the question does not arise because of the non compaptibilit with XP, it does advise that extra on an old machine running win98, but of course avoided to the computer music srieuse.

PS: the stuff that I tried the I compare with my personal stuff, I too never had the means to invest in, but I qd mm Digi001 boss also, but Fireface and Motu how to compare maps 1500-2000 euros with a multimedia card / computer music 2000 francs 10 years ago! The only comparison I can do it with a DMX6-Fire ... there's no picture, for all the DMX is better, except that it not allow registration between 8 and has no wavetable. So it does not replace the ISIS forcemnt provided spite of its qualities empty for this price range.

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12/08/05

Rouxxx's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

J'tais young and c'tait cheap.

home studio use with PC table mix + midi machines.

Utilization

The implementation was easy.

Getting Started

It starts in a practice balls.

she always peocur the breath entering and exiting.

I have several friends who used it, and it has reached the same conclusion.

Overall Opinion

The card died after barely a year of use in a normal.

of all those I know who possdaient a isis, not one has rsist over a year and a half.

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12/08/05

macdriverz's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

See general advice

Utilization

See generally felt quite happy in 95/98, all fawn on Xp, was messing around with a lot of more recent products, so ...

Getting Started

See, generally agreed that it holds well on a small config: Celeron 400 @ 600 + 128 MB and 3.2 GB Ide low end, even under Reason (there are limits that we put on it anyway)

Overall Opinion

The Isis t but 2nd sound card for use grows.

I turned over, super stable overclocks with a celeron 400 600, although the PCI bus was really bad especially men with a Via chipset motherboard: the P3V4X.

In terms of latency, nothing wrong, except that a non-issue when switching to ASIO 2 (they had to configure ...) Same for the South, but the keyboard was a problem that was defective (a always falls on me)

Digital input and output, SPDIF and optical is a rare luxury, even our time, known as Isis afford.

As for flaws, obviously that of drivers other than Windows 95/98, but also use DSP or patch or fashion effect, without restarting the beast. It's been a little tinkering anyway!

Sound, there's more obvious now, but for a config that runs on 95/98, let's be honest, some may be enough, I have since switched to another.

I put a good overall rating, because the current rate, is still very interesting.

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09/28/04

breizhinours35's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

Regarding the number of inputs and outputs, others are Describes dj.

I like the external rack. It is compact, possde the digital and the analog (not to mention the famous MIDI) so complete.

That said, and that is why I strongly deprecated this card, it only works on Win98! And yes you need two sysrmes operating and that's the problem started ...

(Well two systems if you turn on your XP for other applications)

Utilization

RAS, everything is installed perfectly.

Getting Started

The main problem on this card (the problem of operating system) and the level of. Prampli are worthy of the club jou! impossible to reach even in-6db on a record! Unless you put your volume keyboard or guitar background hands of grsille blow hard!

Overall Opinion

Frankly I bought used 100euros so I had nothing to lose but I have used that can trs. Once you live through a prmix but it crashed all the time so I record 8 tracks while broadcast six tracks and I'm not talking about latency .... And when I use my keyboard it purchases in the house, it does nothing.

I deprecated the. Plutt opt for a card with less of but much more reliable.

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05/24/04

grendel's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

Bought 5 years ago, I use tt time!

its use is reserved comptences his "studio" and not "multimedia": Listen to cd to it Yadji plenty of free players on the market!

rgulirement I record instruments or amps, singers also: no problem!

DJ has worked on a 450 MHz while the 1800 AMD (I am Fidler their processors)!

attention, it only works with Win98! heads and fawns, other Systmes latest issue (2000, XP, etc ...) have no intrt, making gold coins from microsoft!

your exact trs is honorable, and there is no requirement to spend too Chres cards.

Listen Albums general dub, you'll hear what I mean!

attention: the map ncessite the addition of a ram (slot prvu) since it is calculated that the sound and not the processor (it's gre programs)!

its external box 6.35 + MIDI port make it complete very practical.

Utilization

Installed several times on different PC no problem!

not encountered imcompatibilit notorious.

config ncessite a short time, like a qd mm console's traditional in terms of the way of his: obligartoires patience and testing!

the configs are saved: I used diffrent 3 days after the config (RPET, house, live ...)

Getting Started

The drivers are ok and downloads for the day there! and work! except for Systmes rcents (see above).

Think reinstall the drivers each upgrade of DirectX!

my park soft claim any one can do swallow a computer to work the Zique srieusement, so no list here would be too long.

essentially, I work with Acid Pro, for its quality of operations samples, mounting virtual ...

Another thing, my computer does not serve me that the zik, and walk, even when not is stopped transport for RPET and concerts!

no rec inconvnient in multi if you think the linear array of ram!

must have an external console when mm with phantom power for boxes of DI (active of course, it also exite liabilities) ncessaires making low, the old analog synth, the singer who sticks of p Dales effect between the microphone and the console, or plugger lines (cd / md ...) and plenty of other things according to your habits and desires!

for guitars, nothing can replace a microphone in front of an amp, forget the direct plug in the card (especially if you saturate the guitar! qque I know something!)

latency is reasonable, except for wanting a super cranky rendered useless: the gear, and powerful as expensive as it is, not a substitute for artistic quality. who wants to understand ... h h h

Overall Opinion

I especially like the external box and its connections in jack, rare today (too many to cinch jack dtriment 6.35, QUIPS my dj gear analog). Full MIDI and connections S / PDIF and optical.

t the ultimate test of a hack dat read optical is better than your exact reading directly k7 on-board converter of dat!

pity she is only 20-bit 44.1 or 48, as desired.

and guillemot does + not in hardware, they understood that the use would make zicos to make DMOS or otherwise, in a configuration similar to a real studio.

default key, but rparable: cram an induction on the map, I showed the component in a shop found me almost the same, and I resoldered hop as in 14!

since, no problem.

dj beat the price the silent era.

I would do this choice, because there was nothing else in this price range with these CHARACTERISTICS (connectivity, how many times I must tell you!)

Today, I would go to M-Audio!

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04/28/04

Anonymous 's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

Characteristics

To avoid the CM with Asus A7N8X-Deluxe and Athlon XP 2000 +.

It worked well with DFI motherboard and P III 800.

Utilization

Crash on crash.

Cold sweats during the recording sessions.

Getting Started

Stability uncertain.

Suite crap, waste of time. Especially for the management of banks samples.

Overall Opinion

Inexhaustible source of shit since I'm using an Athlon XP 2000 + to replace the P III 800.

Converters up to its current price in the market for OCCAZ (40/50 euros).

Audiophiles and musicians picky, go your way.

The ISIS card is over.

If you have your pretty broke to want to buy an ISIS, expect to lose much time.

REVIEW of my trial: a motherboard with adquate, ISIS is a job right AUDIO (Custom: ASUS CUSL2). But the cow, there's had to look far!

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Hercules Studio ISIS

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