I'm late on this thread, but I'm a long time PARIS user. In case anyone runs across this I wanted to clear up a couple of questions and misconceptions about the 64 ASIO (written by the incredible Mike Audet - ensoniq.ca) and PARIS in general, espcially in 2020: The ASIO driver, along with 64/32 bit driver (need to load this first), allows PARIS to run on a modern PC running Win 10 64. My PARIS rig is running on an Intel i5 9th gen, Asus Z390 mobo, and Win 10 64. All SSHD. The PARIS EDS cards are in a 13 slot Magma. Super fast, silent, and about as modern as it gets in the first half of 2020. The drivers include both PARIS 2.2 (no PACE) and PARIS 3.0 (PACE). The niggle is that PACE and Win 10 64 are not compatible. Intelligent Devices has not supported PACE in PARIS 3.0 for years, but there are solutions out there that allow one to clean that problem up and make 3.0 usable. No guilt here since ID is not supporting the product anymore. PARIS records in 16 and 24 bit depth. It can't do 20 as far as I know. PARIS will output 16 and 24 bit wav files for a final mix. PARIS native files (paf) can be imported to and exported from Reaper. This allows PARIS to swap files with a modern DAW. Even if you like the PARIS sound, Reaper allows you to do some things like: Use Reatune for pitch correction More advanced tools for manipulating audio - stretching especially Dither and noise shape a 24 stereo wav to a 16 bits. The ASIO driver also allows PARIS hardware to play with other SW. I haven't used this yet. Why use PARIS in 2020? For me, I'm used to it. It's been used to record big name artists, so it's way past good enough for me. Those who are more knowledgeable than I say that it has an analog sound like tape, only clearer. The mix "hangs together" better than other DAWs, especially ProTools from the same era (early 2000s). You can "push" various gain stages and get warmth like an analog system, not hard clipping as you would expect. Generally PARIS is pretty tolerant of going into the red slightly. I know I've occasionally clipped a track a little and don't hear hard clipping. You have to really smash a signal before you get nasty distortion. The magic is apparently partly in the hardware EDS cards and partly in the SW. PARIS is also very low latency. I just play to the live tracks when I'm recording new tracks.
