Using 2 soundcards in one system ?

[Things change I've changed]

Hi guys,

I've curruntly got an Audigy 2 in my system atm which I want to keep for surround sound gameing, the outputs from that card are connected upto a cheap set of 5.1's, what I want to do is also install an M-Audio 192 soundcard along side the audigy and have the outputs of that connected upto my external mixer, now I just want to use the Audigy for gaming and the M-audio 192 for Music/Cubase etc, is this possible to do,

thanks

 

[james.miller]

certainly is in theory. wether the audigy plays ball is another matter. with two soundcards installed you can choose which card to use in most apps somebody else will be able to give you insight on using them together im sure

 

[digitalis]

Yep, this is possible, and should be quite easy to set up (providing the Audigy drivers play nice, as mentioned), as you can set up individual soundcards and inputs/outputs in Cubase.
The worst that could happen would be that you might have to make the M-Audio the default card in Windows before opening Cubase, and that would only be if Cubase itself was getting confused about which card it was meant to be using, but it remembers what card was used last time around, so, it should be ok. Most other audio apps operate in the same way.
I've got 3 soundcards running in one machine without any problems, although, they are all set to do different functions at the same time -

onboard AC'97 - Enabled, but unused
Fortissimo 2 - midi and optical in/out
Echo Darla - Analogue audio in/out

S.

 

[Edinho]

I have the 5.1 live and the audiophile 2496. No problems just might need to juggle the primary sound driver in windows. I use winamp was the only program that allowed me to set which soundcard to use. In games it defaults to the creative.