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 > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
