That is such a lovely thing, and with Audio Hijack you can route anything
where you want, but not so confusing as the big numbers of audio repeaters.
The one thing that kind of took me off guard is that a mac book will not
take an analog mic directly, so it needs to be a USB one or something at the
line or digital in.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <d.tretho...@me.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: multiple audio devices versus VAC
Firstly, - unless you're talking a Mac Pro System - the Mac does not take
sound cards, all Mac machines have a built-in analogue/digital audio
input/output to start with which are probably useful for most situations.
If you wish to add a sound device then this is done using the USB ports, I
use several different sound devices with my Mac including a Fastrak mixer,
Imic, external speakers, microphone and headphones.
As a Windows user as well as a Mac user it would seem to me that handling
of multiple sound devices on a Mac is far smoother, set the device and
associated settings and forget them, no crashes, no tandtums thrown by the
operating system about multiple sound devices etc.
I use Windows 7 here on my Windows machines with multiple sound devices,
I've had occasions where the machine has selected the wrong device even
though I specifically set it to a particular sound device, I've had times
where the Windows machine has just totally given up and crashed and so on,
with the Mac I've had none of this so if you want better audio management
they yep! look at a Mac for sure.
The other thing that I really like about the Mac's audio management is
that you don't have to worry about the Screen Reader interfering with
whatever applications stream you wish to record, for example suppose you
wish to capture a sound stream from the Internet, you just configure your
software such as Audio Hijack Pro, to record that stream and you don't
have to worry about what your Screen Reader or any other audio
application/device is doing, neat!
On 19/04/2012, at 8:58 AM, Joe Paton wrote:
Hi,
I would be curious to know what does VAC do that can not be achieved with
multiple sound cards?
Thanks.
Joe
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