Possible used for 2 sound cards?

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I have heard that people (musicians and other music lovers)
use 2 soundcards....

I have one onboard and one as a card and they are both working...

no conflicts or problems whatsoever.

can I do anything with this combination, perhaps taking advantage of this?
 
John said:
I have heard that people (musicians and other music lovers)
use 2 soundcards....

I have one onboard and one as a card and they are both working...

no conflicts or problems whatsoever.

can I do anything with this combination, perhaps taking advantage of
this?
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I have a similar setup where I have various devices plugged into 'Line-In"
like old audio cassette players and recorders and 'Phonograph'
players(Turntables) to different sound cards on one System. I have an Icon
on the desktop that allows me to switch cards and sound systems. One
computer can drive as many different combinations of sound systems both
external and internal from as many sound cars as there are PCI slots. The
easier way is with an external mixer that does the switching instead of
switching between sound cards which it the way I use the newer systems.

Cliff
 
so you have to switch? There is no way to have the inputs of the 2 cards
work at the same time?
 
John said:
so you have to switch? There is no way to have the inputs of the 2
cards work at the same time?
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It has been so long now that I have never tried it that way I am pretty
sure I HAD to switch. That is why I had multimedia icon from the control
panel on my desktop. It would be easy enough for you to try if you have that
setup. I know I had to tell Windows(98 then) which card was to be used when
it booted so I would hear the sound.
 
there is a tray application that lets you switch on the fly.
I added it here in case you need it or people are searching the google
groups

STADS [free]

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037599

System Tray Audio Card Switcher
Description
Switch the default audio device via a click on a system tray icon


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John said:
there is a tray application that lets you switch on the fly.
I added it here in case you need it or people are searching the google
groups

STADS [free]

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037599
Click to expand...

I have long since been using mechanical mixers and switch boxes that are
still more convenient than SW switching. As long as there are wires and
cables involved like audio and video I am sure there will always be switch
boxes and mixers. I will check out your link however and maybe reconfigure
things again.

Thanks
Cliff
 
my first post here! so hello!

im bumping this thread as it seems to be along the lines of why i
looked for a site like this,

i need a bit of technical help about soundcards

i want to run two sound cards, two sets of speakers, and put windows
media player to come out of one set whilst any other sound comes
through the other set...


does this make any sense, and is it at all possible, what would i need
to buy and has anyone else ever attempted it?


cheers

Daave
 
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