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Hola.

I have a laptop, and use a FW410 with it's many outputs as my main soundcard. This is working fine, nice sound, many outs, lovely, no problems.

However, setting up the laptop and external soundcard with all the power supplies and whatever is a pain in the arse for a quick fiddle in Live, but as I use the multiple outputs to the FW410 in my sets - one stereo pair out for drums, one stereo pair out for bass, one stereo pair out for synths - the standard laptop stereo output disables all but one of these stereo outputs in Live. Fair enough.

My question is: is there any program which can act as virtual mixer/router for these extra stereo outs and mix down to one output, without changing any existing track settings in Live? I used to have an Indigo DJ card with software for this exact purpose (mix 8 virtual stereo outputs from Live down to one/two actual stereo outs thru the Echo DJ), but, as documented elsewhere on this esteemable forum, the card won't effing work with my new laptop.

Does anyone have any solutions to this?

Thanks!
Drummond

drummond wrote: My question is: is there any program which can act as virtual mixer/router for these extra stereo outs and mix down to one output, without changing any existing track settings in Live? I used to have an Indigo DJ card with software for this exact purpose (mix 8 virtual stereo outputs from Live down to one/two actual stereo outs thru the Echo DJ), but, as documented elsewhere on this esteemable forum, the card won't effing work with my new laptop.

have you tried opening up m-audio's control panel?
I do believe you can assign multple outs on one stereo channel.

check it out.
been a while since i've used my fw410 as i am now using a edirol.

gomi wrote:have you tried opening up m-audio's control panel?
I do believe you can assign multple outs on one stereo channel.

Cheers for the reply - however, the scenario I'm aiming for is where the FW410 isn't connected; I'm trying to listen to sets created with the FW410's multiple outs used without the 410 attached, if you get me. If I remember correctly, if there's no M-Audio device attached the M-Audio control panel can't be used, it definitely isn't recognised in Live.

drummond wrote:

gomi wrote:have you tried opening up m-audio's control panel?
I do believe you can assign multple outs on one stereo channel.

Cheers for the reply - however, the scenario I'm aiming for is where the FW410 isn't connected; I'm trying to listen to sets created with the FW410's multiple outs used without the 410 attached, if you get me. If I remember correctly, if there's no M-Audio device attached the M-Audio control panel can't be used, it definitely isn't recognised in Live.

ahh good luck.