Multitrack recording in audition cs6 - input hardware question

I use audition cs6 on win 7 pro for editing and hospital radio production work.  Soon to take delivery of a Sonifex S2 desk for the main studio and have a need to be able to record two seperate stereo outputs from the desk simultaneously (for example, speech tracks and music tracks) for ease in re-editing live broadcasts.
The desk has parallel analogue, AES/EBU and SPDIF outputs on both the main and audition busses so I could do with some advice on input hardware to give me the two stereo ASIO channels on the pc for recording by audition.  Latency isn't an issue in this case, and if the input hardware uses the digital outputs, the clock can be provided by the desk if necessary.
This is not a scenario that would be expanded, it is a fixed studio installation so 2 x stereo line inputs are all that will be required.  I just don't know what is suitable hardware.
Obviously cost is an issue, being a charity.
Any advice welcomed!
Christopher

I use audition cs6 on win 7 pro for editing and hospital radio production work.  Soon to take delivery of a Sonifex S2 desk for the main studio and have a need to be able to record two seperate stereo outputs from the desk simultaneously (for example, speech tracks and music tracks) for ease in re-editing live broadcasts.
The desk has parallel analogue, AES/EBU and SPDIF outputs on both the main and audition busses so I could do with some advice on input hardware to give me the two stereo ASIO channels on the pc for recording by audition.  Latency isn't an issue in this case, and if the input hardware uses the digital outputs, the clock can be provided by the desk if necessary.
This is not a scenario that would be expanded, it is a fixed studio installation so 2 x stereo line inputs are all that will be required.  I just don't know what is suitable hardware.
Obviously cost is an issue, being a charity.
Any advice welcomed!
Christopher

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    I've thumbed through all of the prefs and can't seem to locate the cause of this problem. I guess the most interesting aspect of this is it seems to be isolated to Audition CS6, as I can not reproduce the issue in any other sound application. Any tips would be appreciated.  Really want to upgrade, but would like to see if there is a fix for this.
    Thanks!

    This sounds remarkably like the symptoms of the Microsoft-acknowledged resampling problem in W7. You need to make sure that your sound device sample rate is set to the same sample rate that Audition is using, otherwise the OS will resample the output. Since it's M$ resampling, it's absolute crap, and adds all sorts of artefacts. There's nothing wrong with Audition CS6's output at all - that's been thoroughly tested - unlike W7, it would seem. Why just CS6? I think that this relates to the relationship between the software and the sound device, and what gets reset or not, although somebody with more direct experience of the problem could probably comment more authoritatively about that. I don't know, because I don't use any version of W7.

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