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ISIS Maxi Studio
The Maxi Studio ISIS has a split personality. The card itself has little 1/8" mini jacks like one of those peewee little "game" cards. There's another little thingy (not a daughterboard, but perhaps a niece-board?) that attaches to the card via a ribbon cable. It takes up a position on the back (but doesn't actually occupy a card slot), and connects via a DIN cable to a breakout box. This is where the audio stuff happens. The analog and digital audio ins and outs are on one side, and (oddly, I thought), the DIN cable and the MIDI ports connect on t'other side.
Not that the ISIS is lacking on the audio side. I tested out the ISIS by archiving some 8-track reels in a digital audio format. That was such a nightmarish project that I wrote a whole article about it, but the ISIS card worked fine throughout. Installation was no problem. When I opened up Cakewalk and SAW, there was the ISIS on the list of audio devices, ready to go. Sound quality was fine, at least according to the old ear test.
