Multiple Sound Cards

Abraham_Stereo · Post by **Abraham_Stereo** » Tue May 11, 2004 12:58 am

Can use multiple sound cards for those who haven't a multioutput sound card, to can pre-listen.

nobbystylus · Post by **nobbystylus** » Tue May 11, 2004 12:11 pm

this would be very useful..

pick up a cheap usb audio device just for prelistening, while using your built in audio for master output..

traktor can do this..

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Tue May 11, 2004 1:11 pm

Live *can* do this.

I've seen a thread on this forum on how to do it on a Mac.

You can also do it on a PC (on XP at least - I haven't tried on any other PC OSes) but only if you use DirectX drivers (well, not the standard ASIO drivers anyway) so latency may suffer.

Virtual Audio Cable may solve the problem too - with less impact on latency.

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Tue May 11, 2004 1:27 pm

robbmasters wrote:Live *can* do this.

I've seen a thread on this forum on how to do it on a Mac.

You can also do it on a PC (on XP at least - I haven't tried on any other PC OSes) but only if you use DirectX drivers (well, not the standard ASIO drivers anyway) so latency may suffer.

Virtual Audio Cable may solve the problem too - with less impact on latency.

You don't happen to remember the title of this thread, do you? I've been trying to do this since I can only afford a one-output device at the moment (most likely the M-Audio Transit). When I went and asked the resident tech wizard at the local music shop, he didn't think Live could do it. We tested it out on a demo WinXP machine they had in the store (which had a number of audio interfaces connected to it) and came to the conclusion that this cannot be done - in the "Device Type" menu in the Live prefs' "Audio" tab, only one device driver can be selected at a time.

Here's the thread where I was asking a similar question before.

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Tue May 11, 2004 1:59 pm

It was Neat Tip:How to use TWO audio interfaces with Live (MacOS X)

If you need more info about how to do it on a PC, take a look at this FAQ wot I wrote.

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Tue May 11, 2004 5:20 pm

robbmasters wrote:It was Neat Tip:How to use TWO audio interfaces with Live (MacOS X)

If you need more info about how to do it on a PC, take a look at this FAQ wot I wrote.

This sounds like the exact solution I've been looking for. Thanks alot.

IWannaBeKyle · Post by **IWannaBeKyle** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:14 am

after a 3 page search I found this old thread... *pats self on back*

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from the faq:

Does Live support multiple sound cards/audio interfaces?

Live does not support multiple sound cards/audio interfaces.

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My wish list is only one item long:

Have Live support multiple sound cards.

-notkyle-

supster · Post by **supster** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:06 am

robbmasters wrote:It was Neat Tip:How to use TWO audio interfaces with Live (MacOS X)

If you need more info about how to do it on a PC, take a look at this FAQ wot I wrote.

You can also use multiple soundcards in your PC using Asio4all:

http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/asio4all/

This allows me to use my internal Audiophile 24/96 as master out, and USB Tascam US-122 for pre-listening. The driver is free, and works like a charm.

Unfortunately so far I cant get my line/mic ins recognized on the Tascam in this configuration. But for pre-listenening, it works great.