noob question: possible to run dual sound cards?

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jtusa

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Yes, I know, weird question. Just wondering if it's doable. My thinking would be to have one outputting to receiver for music and such while the other does just the normal sounds through regular PC speakers.

I don't think it's possible, but maybe it is?
 
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MobiusPizza

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You can specify different device in Windows sound setting for mic and speakers. That's why it works for Reapsy00.

Yet you can't specify using different sound cards for different outputs since the Windows does not know which is music and which is normal sound.

The setting in control panel only allows you to choose which sound card to use for - a. mic input; b. midi output c. sound output
So doesn't work for your scenario
 
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Bar81

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Yes, it's possible and very doable as some programs let you select the output device you would like to use.
 
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Yep, done it before. Had a Audigy 2 ZS and a HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold in at the same time to compare. I just set foobar, etc to what device/sound card to play out of. Games will run off the primary one in control panel.
 
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I use two sound cards also. An Audigy 2 ZS for game sound and on-board sound for my single muff headset/mic. It works great.
 
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Originally posted by: jtusa4
Yes, I know, weird question. Just wondering if it's doable. My thinking would be to have one outputting to receiver for music and such while the other does just the normal sounds through regular PC speakers.

I don't think it's possible, but maybe it is?
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precisely what I do. Winamp + recording apps use the Hammerfall DSP

Windows + everything else uses the onboard

works very well
 
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jtusa

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Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Yes, I know, weird question. Just wondering if it's doable. My thinking would be to have one outputting to receiver for music and such while the other does just the normal sounds through regular PC speakers.

I don't think it's possible, but maybe it is?
Click to expand...

precisely what I do. Winamp + recording apps use the Hammerfall DSP

Windows + everything else uses the onboard

works very well
Click to expand...

How do you specify for winamp to use a particular piece of hardware and everything else to use something else? Any special software or driver settings or just toying with the output settings of winamp and windows until you have it right?
 
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MobiusPizza

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Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Yes, I know, weird question. Just wondering if it's doable. My thinking would be to have one outputting to receiver for music and such while the other does just the normal sounds through regular PC speakers.

I don't think it's possible, but maybe it is?
Click to expand...

precisely what I do. Winamp + recording apps use the Hammerfall DSP

Windows + everything else uses the onboard

works very well
Click to expand...

Dual everything theory has finally covered soundcards

Hm Never knew it iss possible.
In that case it's not Windows' setting it's the software's setting that matters
 
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tr1kstanc3

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you only need 1 soundcard with variable output mapping. what connection type is your receiver? a cheap prosumer card like the m-audio delta series can assign different stereo outputs to different tasks. lets say stereo channel 1/2 (for left/right) can be used as your windows sound output where stereo channels 3/4 can be assigned to output in winamp. its pretty straightforward.
 
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jtusa

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Originally posted by: tr1kstanc3
you only need 1 soundcard with variable output mapping. what connection type is your receiver? a cheap prosumer card like the m-audio delta series can assign different stereo outputs to different tasks. lets say stereo channel 1/2 (for left/right) can be used as your windows sound output where stereo channels 3/4 can be assigned to output in winamp. its pretty straightforward.
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That would be perfect. The receiver has pretty much every input, optical, coax, multichannel and just stereo/composite.
 
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tr1kstanc3

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Originally posted by: jtusa4
Originally posted by: tr1kstanc3
you only need 1 soundcard with variable output mapping. what connection type is your receiver? a cheap prosumer card like the m-audio delta series can assign different stereo outputs to different tasks. lets say stereo channel 1/2 (for left/right) can be used as your windows sound output where stereo channels 3/4 can be assigned to output in winamp. its pretty straightforward.
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That would be perfect. The receiver has pretty much every input, optical, coax, multichannel and just stereo/composite.
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you'll be surprised at how much more flexible a pro-audio card can be. only problem is that they are not the best for gaming because they lack dx9 hardware acceleration. if music is your niche there is no comparison.
 
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uOpt

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I almost always have two sound cards in my systems. There's always some random OS that doesn't play nice with one of them, or not in 5.1 or whatever.

I will probably do stero and 5.1 sound on my server on seperate cards once I have a PCI slot free. Too much trouble switching around, e.g. I cannot use advanced software mixers for a sound device as long as that device switches the number of channels.

I don't regularly use Windose but from what I see every application except games allows you to select. Linux games generally do.
 
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