RE: [amsat-bb] 2 sound cards ?

["Howard Long" <howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Bill

>   Several months ago, someone on this mailing list posted about
> having success using 2 sound cards in a computer each simultaneously
> being used by different software.  I have been trying to do this, and
> have been having a lot of trouble getting it to work.

Assuming that your soundcards are working OK (ie, no DMA or other clashes)
and Windows is seeing your soundcards, I think the problem may be that the
software you're using doesn't directly support selection of soundcard, or
you may have a Windows setting to change.

Some soundcard software I've seen will only use the default soundcard. In
this case prior to each time you launch each program, you will need to set
the preferred (or default) soundcard. How to set the default sound card is
described in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q142006&;

If your software has the option to select specific soundcards, you'll want
to uncheck 'use only preferred devices' in the Sound/Multimedia control
panel applet. This is described in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q259312&;

FWIW, I use AO40Rcv and MixW simultaneously on two soundcards with no
problem. Both, however, allow selection of soundcard within the program
without having to resort to the control panel applet.

73 Howard G6LVB




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