Sep 23, 2004 10:50 am Try "Monitor Mixer" or whatever the other control panel option is...
Connecting Audigy 2, Audiophile 2496, mixer& outputting thru HiFi
Posted on Sep 23, 2004 10:12 am
KillaBill
Member Since: Sep 22, 2004
Hi, I posted an earlier problem about how I can use my Audigy 2's SoundFont Bank software with my Audiophile. Thanks to the help of this forum I managed to solve the problem.
However, I was also told on the forum that it would be easier to connect the output from the Audigy 2, to the input of my mixer, and then the output of my mixer to the input of my Audiophile. And then finally, I have connected the output of the audiohile to my HiFi system (for monitoring).
Everything is now working a treat, apart from when I'm now using my Auidgy2 for the output. Whats happening is that, whichever sound is generated by the Audigy 2, it is (rightly) outputting to the mixer. In the mixer I can hear everything that is output from the Audigy 2. But this, sound does not then go to my Audiophile for some reason; Which I want it to do, as I want to then hear this sound through my Hi-Fi. I have changed the routing in the Audiophile control panel from WaveOut 1/2 to H/W IN 1/2, and vica versa, but it still won't work.
please help!
thanks
Bill.
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Sep 23, 2004 10:50 am Try "Monitor Mixer" or whatever the other control panel option is...
Sep 23, 2004 12:01 pm Hi,
Yeah, I've tried that also. I keep on playing around with the options, but nothing seems to work. I don't know if I need to do something to my Behringer mixer, (i.e. change a setting there), but I don't think so, as I'm getting output from my mixer. It's just not going to the Audiophile.
thanks
Sep 23, 2004 01:45 pm You need to make sure that the output of the channel of the mixer you are using is assigned to the main outs or sub outs...
You have subout I believe, with the 1204. What I would do in that situation is make sub outs go to the Echo in, and the main outs go to your amp. Then...well, rather than repeat myself go read homerecordingconnection.c...tory&id=132 and that says it all from my personal opinion...
Sep 23, 2004 02:50 pm Hi, thanks for your reply.
I'm not using an amplifier. what I have done is, I've connected the cable, which is going from the Audigy 2's line out, into my Bheringer mixers Tape Input. Then in my mixers Tape Out, I have connected a cable to the Input of the Audiophile card. This is not the main output, as the main output for this mixer requires balanced XLR cables. But it has a Control Room output (L+R 1/4"). So, maybe I need to connect from here, instead of from the Tape Output. This is because the manual does say something like if you use the Tape Input, then the Tape Output-to-Main Mix signal is disbaled or something.
what do you think?
thanks
Sep 23, 2004 04:44 pm Basically, for the output I havent used the 'Control Room' output of the mixer, which is supposed to be the 'main output'. I have used the 'Tape Output' instead. This is supposed to run parrelel to the 'Control Room' output, and can be used for outputting. However, I think that it says in the manual that if you are using the 'Tape Input' in the mixer, which I am as this where I have connected the cable coming from the Audigys Line Out, then it says that the 'Tape Output' becomes disable, i.e. I think you can't get any output. I thought that you might know whether this is true or not.. but I don't know whether you are familiar with behringer mixers.
thats why I'm saying that maybe I'll have to buy a Jack to Phono cable and use the 'Control Room' output of the mixer instaed
thanks
Sep 23, 2004 06:01 pm And get different cables to run your audigy outs to channel inputs, not the tape inputs. Put the audigy outputs into a stereo pair of channel inputs.
Sep 24, 2004 12:42 am i say sell your audiophile and your audigy 2 and buy a delta 1010 or somethin. quit makin life hard with 2 sound cards, one of which isn't even meant for recording
Oct 28, 2004 06:19 pm <<i say sell your audiophile and your audigy 2 and buy a delta 1010 or somethin. quit makin life hard with 2 sound cards, one of which isn't even meant for recording>>
the one NOT meant for recording would be the audigy?
is there any truth to the unsettling possibility that an EMU 1820 has the same converters an an audigy? if so, how bad is that?
I've heard the EMU 1820M is a better product. I don't know the difference.
Oct 28, 2004 06:20 pm Isn't EMU and Creative the same company? Or at least owned buy the same company?
And ya, SB's are NOT meant for recording, though some have made it work, it's not their purpose.
Oct 28, 2004 07:15 pm No the E-MU stuff is built using completely differant chips. They use more Hi end electronics in the E-MU interfaces. And the relationship is more one of Creative used to use the E-MU synth engine chip for their SoundBlaster cards as well as all the others. So in the end, I believe Creative ended up owing a dept to E-MU and they where absorbed by them.
But the Creative stuff as far as sound cards go is built on a differant scale then the E-MU stuff. E-MU got into the audio interface thing to drive their new software synth and sampler set-ups. Which makes perfect sense.
That said, they are offering a lower end card to probly stay away from. The 0404 I believe is built with the same synth audio engines, but may use cheaper AD/DA converters to get it down to that low end price range.
So the 1820 is from what I have read so far doing very well and the specs are more then respectable.
Oct 29, 2004 01:13 pm ok, lets start from the top here. First off, it doesn't really make sense to me to output from your audigy to your mixer and then send back to your Audiophile. I guess the best place to start is how do you connect from your audiophile to your hifi. I use an SB and a Delta 66 and am able to output the soundfont sounds running from SB through the Delta. What programs do you use to play the soundfont sounds, and what operating system are you using?
I would probably disregard the delta 1010 comment as it doesn't address your concerns for playing the soundfonts.
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