[AG-TECH] windows sound card woes

[George Estes]

   In testing the M-Audio FireWire Audiophile worked great for us.  We haven't used it for extended periods of time yet though.  I'm also testing the M-Audio USB Audiophile.  We're trying these external devices because all of a sudden I can't find a suitable server board with onboard audio that doesn't have the Realtek chip.  And Realtek seems to not play well with the current AG version of RAT.  Although the Realtek chip works fine with the latest UCL RAT.

George

At 07:57 PM 2/1/2007 -0500, Gavin Burris wrote:
>So I'm not new to this Access Grid thing, but I'm having lots of problems lately!
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>I can't get RAT to cooperate.  The integrated audio on a Dell Precision 650 workstation would not give me audio line-in or microphone record.  I then disabled integrated audio and threw in a Soundblaster PCI 512, but RAT would crash or lock up every other minute.
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>I then went to the store and bought a Soundblaster Audigy SE.  It gave me echo right on the card!  The speaker out would leak into the microphone in, causing the remote site to hear themselves faintly.  The record gain was way too low even when maxed out and boosted.  And RAT would _still_ crash, but only about every ten minutes.
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>So I'm really frustrated.  Could someone please recommend their choice sound card or device for use under Windows with AGtk 3.0.2?
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>I'm thinking about getting the M-Audio FireWire Audiophile recommended on the Hardware Reference.  Will RAT behave with this choice?
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>Cheers,
>-- 
>Gavin W. Burris aka 86
>Senior Systems Programmer
>Penn State Visualization Group