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Anonymous   02-14-2002 at 11:41:20 PM

From another site I've heard that sometimes it is a good idea to have two sound cards working, ex. when one is running softsynths plus other stuff.
now my question is if i buy a mb w/ good _onboard_ sound, mustn't I disable that to make use of extra sound card?
Or can I use them in parallell, say for softsynth and hdd-rec?


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FatBurger   02-15-2002 at 12:28:19 AM
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Yes, you must disable the onboard sound.

Why would you want to run more than one sound card? Much better to get a multi-channel card.

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Anonymous   02-15-2002 at 03:32:03 PM
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I've gotten the impression from a <A HREF="http://www.instrument-online.nu/cgi/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi" target="_new">
swe. music site</A> that two cards is sometimes a good idea. Maybe two cheap cards will give you more that one expensive. Or if I get a card w/ lots of dsp and then one for analogue hdd-rec. Hey I don't know, I'm a lamer. I just read about fun ideas and waste your time w/ silly questions ;) I promise to do my homework better and return w/ informed q. in the future, ok?

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Dev   02-16-2002 at 01:54:25 AM
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If you are a gamer and a musician, you'll need at _least_ two cards, at least until someone makes a card with high quality synth, great DA converter and 3d gaming sound. There is absolutly no problem in having on-board sound and an extra soundcard; for example utilizing the on-board's midi (quite a few actually have an XG chip) and an external one for analogue and mixing. The only limitation is that you can't the same feature (midi, recording, playback etc) from the onboard and the external one at the same time. There is also a less frequent problem of driver interaction, but this is a very small and rare problem compared with the benefit of having two or more cards.
I am actually writing this on a pooter I just built that has the Vortex 2 and AC97 enabled at the same time, and I run another one with one M-audio and one Yamaha based no name card without any problems.

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