Help! Using two sound cards together.

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Help! Using two sound cards together.

Post by aejaz » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:11 pm

Hi

I was thinking of getting one of those Echo PCMCIA soundcards for my laptop. Ideally I'd like to record, so the Echo I/O would be a good choice. However, for live performance the Echo DJ is probably better cause of the dual outputs -one for cue, second for mix. Does anyone know if it's easy to set up the laptop's own sound card for cueing and the Echo I/O soundcard for main mix output? That way I'd only need the Echo I/O. Is anyone doing this already? Have you had any probs?

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Post by Tyrant » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:19 pm

i don't know if live supports 2 different audio drivers Simultaneous. you could try asio4all drivers.
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Post by ocp » Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:05 pm

Mac OS X Tiger does that for you (aggregate device).
Are you using Win or Mac?
MacBook Pro 2.0, 2 GB RAM, Mac OS 10.6.8, Live 7.0.18, etc.

http://ocp.pt.vu
http://doporto.pt.to
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ASIO4ALL works with my ECHO I/O

Post by backwoods » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:48 pm

I was posed with the same question. I chose the IO.

Here's my working Setup

Toshiba P15-S479
ECHO IO (main in/out)
Internal card is a 16 bit AC97 card (monitor)
ASIO4ALL 2.6

Latency @ 5ms

I think as long as your laptop sound card isn't completely crap It will work.

Good Luck!
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Post by DISUYE » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:18 pm

[quote="Tyrant"]i don't know if live supports 2 different audio drivers Simultaneous. you could try asio4all drivers.[/quote]

And this works really, really well. Got 2 M-Audio Audiophiles aggregated together for DJing. No issue whatsoever.
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Post by aejaz » Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:57 pm

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Post by aejaz » Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:59 pm

Hi Backwoods

What did you have to do in the Live preferences to get the 'cue' to come out of one and the 'mix' out of the other?

Cheers, A.
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Post by suburbanbather » Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:14 pm

For all of you Win XP users this will do the trick

http://www.centrance.com/products/ud/index.shtml
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