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Published on 05/13/02 at 16:28
Value For Money :
Excellent
I wanted a card not very dear to me to record a guitar and a bass simultaneously. ISIS I was immediately seduced by its characteristics:
Rack card with external daughterboard.
Main card: a joystick port, 2 outputs, 1 line input, 1 microphone, all in little Jack.
Daughterboard: A proprietary jack which plugs into the rack.
External rack: 8 Jack mono wholesale disable input, 4 outputs wholesale Jack mono, 1 Digital Input (Optical & Coaxial) and 1 Digital Output (Optical & Coaxial), MIDI In, Out and Through
Usage: Mini home studio, especially miking guitar / bass / mic
UTILIZATION
Hardware installation easy, the cable rack is 2.50m which is good enough.
The daughter card does not bind very well to the PC case, the screws to loosen tendeance quickly, we must give a helping screwdriver regularly (at least if the rack is disconnected and reconnected frequently).
Software installation is relatively simple, there is a CD with drivers and docs, and another CD with some apps (Cool Edit SE, Logic Audio SE ...)
Big Problem: Only works on Windows 98 and Millennium! In addition it will never work on Windows XP or 2000, according to a statement on the website of Guillemot!
Once installed, it works in 2 modes:
- Mode "multimedia", or only I / O card key are taken into account. ISIS then behaves like a sound card "standard" practice to video games or multimedia applications. Software lets you insert effects on output, change the banks in its internal synthesizer, making the surround with 2 outputs ... It closely resembles a SB Live! sound quality with much less.
- Mode "Console", or the rack is taken into account. The Windows mixer is then replaced by a table with the drivers installed, which adjusts the level of monitoring and recording of each track, enabling digital inputs ...
GETTING STARTED
The drivers are stable and are regularly updated, but the problem is the inconsistency ... XP/2000
With Cubase ASIO latency is over 40ms, unfortunately.
With Cool Edit, you can easily record 4 audio tracks simultaneously with a small config (Celeron 366, 128MB of memory)
Mode "multimedia" AC is not very powerful, sound quality is poor and the slowdown is being felt in some videogames.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it for over a year and a half and I was very satisfied. I am separated for three disadvantages:
Least, the lack of E / S CAR. It has only mono jack is very useful when recording a guitar or vocal input, but output on the other hand, the lack of RCA arises.
Then, the latency in Cubase is still huge with ASIO. That said, I have not tried the latest drivers, maybe they have improved.
But above all: The non-support for Windows 2000/XP! What a pity, these systems (especially 2000) are much more stable and powerful than 98, and the card does not work with ...
A regret I advise against a purchase, because it an excellent value for money, but it is already in the past because only supported on older systems, 98 and Me
Rack card with external daughterboard.
Main card: a joystick port, 2 outputs, 1 line input, 1 microphone, all in little Jack.
Daughterboard: A proprietary jack which plugs into the rack.
External rack: 8 Jack mono wholesale disable input, 4 outputs wholesale Jack mono, 1 Digital Input (Optical & Coaxial) and 1 Digital Output (Optical & Coaxial), MIDI In, Out and Through
Usage: Mini home studio, especially miking guitar / bass / mic
UTILIZATION
Hardware installation easy, the cable rack is 2.50m which is good enough.
The daughter card does not bind very well to the PC case, the screws to loosen tendeance quickly, we must give a helping screwdriver regularly (at least if the rack is disconnected and reconnected frequently).
Software installation is relatively simple, there is a CD with drivers and docs, and another CD with some apps (Cool Edit SE, Logic Audio SE ...)
Big Problem: Only works on Windows 98 and Millennium! In addition it will never work on Windows XP or 2000, according to a statement on the website of Guillemot!
Once installed, it works in 2 modes:
- Mode "multimedia", or only I / O card key are taken into account. ISIS then behaves like a sound card "standard" practice to video games or multimedia applications. Software lets you insert effects on output, change the banks in its internal synthesizer, making the surround with 2 outputs ... It closely resembles a SB Live! sound quality with much less.
- Mode "Console", or the rack is taken into account. The Windows mixer is then replaced by a table with the drivers installed, which adjusts the level of monitoring and recording of each track, enabling digital inputs ...
GETTING STARTED
The drivers are stable and are regularly updated, but the problem is the inconsistency ... XP/2000
With Cubase ASIO latency is over 40ms, unfortunately.
With Cool Edit, you can easily record 4 audio tracks simultaneously with a small config (Celeron 366, 128MB of memory)
Mode "multimedia" AC is not very powerful, sound quality is poor and the slowdown is being felt in some videogames.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it for over a year and a half and I was very satisfied. I am separated for three disadvantages:
Least, the lack of E / S CAR. It has only mono jack is very useful when recording a guitar or vocal input, but output on the other hand, the lack of RCA arises.
Then, the latency in Cubase is still huge with ASIO. That said, I have not tried the latest drivers, maybe they have improved.
But above all: The non-support for Windows 2000/XP! What a pity, these systems (especially 2000) are much more stable and powerful than 98, and the card does not work with ...
A regret I advise against a purchase, because it an excellent value for money, but it is already in the past because only supported on older systems, 98 and Me