Jul 27, 2004 12:14 am I believe most solid recording programs will do that. Check into cubase, sonar, audition. Someone else will probably know some others.
Multi Soundcard recording
Posted on Jul 26, 2004 07:49 pm
shamoo2
Member Since: Jul 26, 2004
Is there a program that will allow one soundcard's input to record on one track, and another soundcard to record to another at the same time? I have 2 sound cards in my system, and i want 2 separate tracks.
Thanks,
Chris
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Jul 27, 2004 12:14 am I believe most solid recording programs will do that. Check into cubase, sonar, audition. Someone else will probably know some others.
Jul 27, 2004 07:21 am Yeah, you should be able too with no major problems.
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Geez coolo, so rude with no welcoming! :)
Jul 27, 2004 09:22 am You should be able to get 2 each, stereo is involved and you can keep them seperate.
i.e. guitar, bass, voice are all mono signals, no need to use 2 tracks for it. Make it stereo later in the computer if you want, or just pan them wherever and let the mixdown create the stereo image.
And yes, you can tell the software that you want to record x's inputs into new tracks, and y's inputs into new tracks and it shouldn't have a problem.
Jul 27, 2004 03:13 pm Much as I hate to step into someone else's thread, this does raise I question I had some time back (before I built a computer ^_^;;). Basically, before the new comp came 'round, I had the M-Audio Firewire 410 operating out of the firewire port on my Audigy 2ZS. I ended up using the 410 for all playback as it was hooked to my monitors and there was no contest there. What I wanted to know was if there was a way to have both of these devices active without running into conflict. I'm thinking of trying to use the inputs in both, but have no interest in introducing conflicts by installing the Audigy again if there's no real benefit to be had from it.
Jul 27, 2004 10:23 pm Well the problems that can occur using 2 seperate cards are numorous, but I will name a few.
First and the worst of all, the audio timing of each card is differant. The low end cards audio crystal is probably not very stable at all. What can happen is they will not play together in sync at all. You can try using the PC via your recording app as the timing master but I wont say that will work for sureif it even does at all.
Second is the audio is recorded differantly or I should say at differant levels with each card, so playback can be another issue unto itself altogether. It may be erratic or very distorted if at all playable.
Third, your recording app may not all both cards to run at the same time. A high end crads drivers may not play well with a low end crads drivers.
I do run my Delta with an SB card alongside for the synth portion and t see how some software or softsynths react to the WDM drivers. My Delta runs with ASIO drivers for better perfomance.
As I stated, you can try setting the cards up in your recording application to be slaved to the audio apps timng as the master and see if that does it, but I dont think it will run smoothly at all.
Jul 28, 2004 10:14 am Many thanks for the assist. My experiments with the two cards in the past pointed to this, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some easy fix that'd make my life easier (ha, with sound cards?).
Jul 28, 2004 10:16 am easy fix...yeah, riiiight :-)
One thing I will say is that some cards are made to work together, such as M-Audio, the 44's for example are designed to work with up to 4 of them very easily...some don't play so well with others...
Jul 28, 2004 12:54 pm I am going to be buying a better computer soon, one that I can use for recording purposes and nothing else. (I am keeping my current computer for my internet needs, etc...)
I plan on moving my Delta 66 to the new computer but my question is this...
Right now, I am using a SBLive for my MIDI needs. Should I move that over to the new machine along with my Delta and get another card for the old computer? Or am I better off leaving it (the SB) and buying Audiophile's 24/96 (to go with the Delta) for the new one?
Or is there another possibility I've overlooked to handle my MIDI?
I should probably mention that all I really use MIDI for is to lay out the structure of my songs in Sonar, and to use as a glorified metronome. Any MIDI I use in a project is usually stripped from the final product.
Jul 28, 2004 03:00 pm shepherd, I did the same thing you are planning to do. The difference is that I use a lot of midi sequencing. So, what I did was take my old SBLive out of the old computer, and move it to the new computer. I added a Delta 66 to the new computer. And I put in a new audigy in the old computer so I could still play some music while on the internet.
In my music computer, playback is almost exclusively through the SB, except while recording. And recording is done solely by the 66. All the midi is done inside the computer.
Jul 28, 2004 04:28 pm Thanks coolo,
I figured that's what I would end up doing, But It can't hurt to check with all of you more knowledgable folks first.
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