Multiple audio control

[Quasmo]

Is there any way to play different sounds out of one computer... I need to control 7-8 sources with one PC. Any way to do this with Windows?

 

[Oyeve]

I had program that I used a few years ago. I think it was called virtual turntable or something like that. It had 6 little windows that controlled 6 different sound files all at the same time. Was great for music mixing and stuff. Could control all sorts of mixing funtions, fades, BPM, you name it this thing did it.

 

[Quasmo]

Could you map the different sounds to different outputs? Say I have 2 7.1 Sound cards, is there anyway I can map on 1 card 1 output to the front channel, one to the back channels, one to side channels, and the same on the other card for a total of 6 different outputs.

 

[myocardia]

It sounds to me like you need a second computer.

 

[oynaz]

No, he needs a mixer.

Something like this: http://www.gand.com/store/product.php?productid=494&cat=0&bestseller

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Could you map the different sounds to different outputs? Say I have 2 7.1 Sound cards, is there anyway I can map on 1 card 1 output to the front channel, one to the back channels, one to side channels, and the same on the other card for a total of 6 different outputs.

A standalone mixer is definitely a good thing to consider if you don't need the PC.

Playing multiple sources on different devices generally isn't that bad (for instance, you can run multiple instances of Winamp and have each one point to a different audio device). So if you had, say, two sound cards, you could have two independent outputs pretty easily.

Breaking it down further (e.g. taking a 5.1 card and using it to stream three stereo outputs at once) requires specially coded software that knows how to talk to multichannel hardware (or something like the DirectX audio layer that abstracts such hardware) and spool data to all the channels in parallel. I don't know of any such programs off the top of my head, but there may be something out there in professional editing/mixing packages.

 

[Oyeve]

Maybe mutiple sound cards would do the trick. Like using onboard and a pci sound card. Using the seperate SW from both I think you may be able to route to different channels on the dif sound sources. Now I am interested in this.

 

[audioguy]

YOu can do this with KX drivers and Creative cards. You can map outputs to stereo pairs. e.g. fronts, rears, cntr/sub. same thing with 7.1 Audigy cards. this is the easiest way to do it without buying exensive external gear.
It has been done may times with KX drivers. -it's a common thing in audio recording.

 

[audioguy]

just to help some more, you could in theory use multiple instances of Winamp, set the direct sound out put to different stereo pairs
2/3,4/5,6/7,8/9 etc this would give you the ability to play different sound to each output...

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: audioguy
just to help some more, you could in theory use multiple instances of Winamp, set the direct sound out put to different stereo pairs
2/3,4/5,6/7,8/9 etc this would give you the ability to play different sound to each output...

I read about the KX drivers, glad someone knew about them. What I'm trying to do is this. I have one computer that ouputs to 10 monitors (say 10 advertisements) They all display video over ethernet and are fairly cheap. What do I have to do to play audio over all 10 monitors even though they are different audio from one PC? I saw the KX drivers and though oh great I can get 3 cards and make 9 monitors work. Would this actually work? I have a team of programmers behind me trying to get this to work, is it possible to code this into the system (Win XP)