2 Sound Cards?

[crazychicken]

I know you can have 2 sound cards installed installed in a system at the same time, but is there any way to make them run at the same time (ie. 1 ouputing directly into the other through a standard audio cable)

you might be thinking "boy this crazy chicken guy sure is crazy", but here's my logic:
ive heard that the next thing they are going to do to try to protect digital music is to somehow include in the file some code that makes it die after 7 days. I'm thinking "hmmm... if i just outputed the sound and rerecorded it through a cable, i would end up with a file that was the same quality but w/o the kill date"

does this make sense?
and is it possible to do?
if its not, i can always just put my 2 comps right next to each other and do it that way, but that is too annoying and too easy

thanks
david

 

[crazychicken]

bump

 

[glimmer]

Hmmm...sounds like an interesting idea. Sorry I can't confirm whether this will work or not, but I'm interested to hear if someone says it might work.

 

[crazychicken]

bump

 

[esung]

well, I think it could be done, although I never tried it. I used to have 2 sound cards in my system, that's pre Win9x days, Had a SB16SCSI and Gravis Ultrasound MAX.

in Windows you can choose which device to playback and record, so it might be done.. and at this point I don't have any free resource on my computer to try it... maybe someone could do a little experiement?

 

[knutp]

It will work with two soundcards, but after what I've heard, you can not have two sb live! cards. I have done quite alot of audio mastring with pro audio cards, and if any of you know something about that you know that those cards have multple in and outs (my current card have 2 ins, and 8 outs) but newer cards are mostly 4 ins and 4 outs (mono). But then again these cards do not support surround etc... so if you need that you have to go for live! hercules maxi gamer or whatever it is called again...

And if you are pro creative it will work with one live! and one pci 128 or something similar

 

[crazychicken]

i'm thinkin about an Aureal Vortex SQ25000 and another PCI card with exactly the same ports, just a no name brand, i knew about turning one off and turning one on, but i'd like to have both on at the same time.

this is what i need help with

anyone?

thanks
david

^bump
can you bump from within a message like this?
or just make a totally new reply with ONLY 'bump'?

 

[knutp]

Im not sure about that card, but I know that usually two cards works at the same time. I got now the sb live! and actually the integrated via audio device at the same time, it's working as it should, and no problems here, also another system with a sb awe 64 and a midiman dman 44 (4 in and 4 out) also working great, and a "gina by echo" with a sb pci 128 working great. so I do not think it will be a problem connecting two cards to each other, but some ecual card's will not work together as I said in my previous post

 

[crazychicken]

knutp, sounds like you know what your talking about, but i'd like to know too
can you explain how to get 1 program to use 1 and 1 to use the other? or how else would i go about my task?
thanks
david
ps.
bump

 

[jasonlee123]

What does "bumb" mean?

 

[Dragonheart]

Um crazychicken, you can do what you're describing with a single sound card. Just hook the sound card output to the line in on the same card and presto you have your recording. I think you can do this as long as you have a full duplex sound card which is the standard now anyways.

 

[knutp]

You might use one soundcard, but then yoy could get some feedback (and make sure that you don't put the output sound while recording (this will cause a feedback (you know when you here that damn high frequency sound at conserts etc), and this again will lead to a dead input and output on your soundcard. But if there is a way to route an mp3 or something like that to the record channel, but not take the recording sound to the output it will work, but I can't garantee it (and then it would be easier to have two cards), in the system properties you can choose one card for playback and one for recording, and most of the wav recording utilities let you choose from what channel to record (sound forge, acid, wavelab etc is recommended!) acid is a simple program, and let you record as well as it's other functions. Sound forge and wavelab is made just for harddisk recording, and has alot of other functions that might come in handy.. but this comes with a price! I'm not sure how the cool edit pro will do, but I think it can do the same thing!

but just to be sure, use one of the three programs that I mentioned.