I currently consider Software Audio Console
(SAC) to be an end of the road product at this point. While SAC was a
very innovative product when it was released it now has much competition in
the form of low cost digital mixing consoles that have many of the features
that SAC had when it was released but actually cost less once you price out
all the components. At the same time they offer far better user
experiences with user interfaces that do not force the user to conform to
the personal preferences of it's developer and learn many obscure mouse and
keyboard commands and gestures in order to operate them. Unfortunately
the development of SAC seems to have all be ended, leaving most of it's user
base wondering how much longer they will be able to operate the software
they purchased. As new versions of Windows are released there seems to
be little work being done to keep the code up to date with a modern OS.
I suspect at some point SAC will simply not operate with the newest version
of Windows at all or it will require so many work arounds as to make it
impractical. Lastly the main reason for my abandonment of SAC is that
there is finally a software based competitor to SAC, in the form of AMP
(Audio Mixing Platform). AMP development is progressing along and I
suspect it will be publicly released soon. The developer of AMP
actually wants input from users and to make it a better product. It
has a far better user interface than SAC ever has or likely ever will and it
can be highly customized both in mixing architecture and user interface to
the needs of the end user. I am leaving the couple of documents I
created for the use of SAC here on this page in the off chance that someone
might wish to read or make use of them. However I won't be spending
any time updating them, so if there are changes made to SAC in the future
realize that there is the small potential that some of this information
could be out of date.