Will WireReady work with AudioScience sound cards?

A: Audio Science and similar professional sound cards will work fine with WireReady.
In general, any audio card whose manufacturer drivers make their cards show up as standard multimedia/sound wave devices in Windows will work with our software. Lynx, Digigram, Antex, Echo, and many pro and prosumer brands provide drivers that do this. Cards which have multiple ins or outs, will show up as more than one audio card in Windows. Each card gets assigned a number in Windows, and our program has SETUP pulldowns in several screens where you "map" the device number you want to play or record for each of our various playback screens or decks.

Also, most Audioscience cards also overlap out a single virtual channel, so in addition to "routing" the device numbers to our various screens, the audioscience driver (from ASI's web site) will include some kind of on-screen mixer (and from this mixer you can setup more than one device number to play out the same physical audio card jack on the back of the card). This is done in the manufacturer's mixer when someone wants to play more than one thing but for wiring convenience, they want all the sound going through one fader on their console.

Some cards will let you break stereo channels into separate mono channels as well. Each card and the manufacturer driver that comes with the card (or you download from the manufacturers site) determines how many things you can play or record at once, and whether routing or mixing is possible, not WireReady. We do whatever the card lets us. Also beware most multichannel sound cards require all simultaneous WAV streams going through the card to be at the same sample rate. If not, the card either refuses the next thing you ask it to do or it shifts everything to the sample rate of the last thing requested. WireReady software (depending on the version you have) may have INI configurable sample rate controls that either warn users or prevent users from introducing or playing mixed samples if your audio card doesn't support multiple sample rates at the same time.

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