sonar with 2 sound cards do not work

[Olivier Demaine]

Hello

I try to use sonar2 with two sound cards (a sekd arc88 and a SB CT4810) on
windows2000.
But I can not have the two card sinultaneously in sonar. If in windows
control panel, I deactivate the sound blaster, I get only the arc88 in
sonar, if I reactivate it, I get only the SB in sonar.

I want to use the arc88 for the audio et use the sound blaster only for the
midi.

Thanks in advance
Olivier

[axtogrind]

And I have three soundcards with Sonar 2 working just fine.

It isn't the Windows control panel, you have to tell Sonar to load drivers
for both cards. I'm not at the Sonar computer, but under the Tools (?) menu
there is an Audio option - go there, and select all the ins and outs for the
cards you want Sonar to use.

atg

"Olivier Demaine" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
>
> I try to use sonar2 with two sound cards (a sekd arc88 and a SB CT4810) on
> windows2000.
> But I can not have the two card sinultaneously in sonar. If in windows
> control panel, I deactivate the sound blaster, I get only the arc88 in
> sonar, if I reactivate it, I get only the SB in sonar.
>
> I want to use the arc88 for the audio et use the sound blaster only for
the
> midi.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Olivier
>
>
>

[Ricky W. Hunt]

Both cards will work fine. At least my Delta 66 and SBLive have and in two
different machines. You probably have incompatible drivers: possibly WDM
with the Sekd and MME with the SB. Sonar can only use one type, one sample
rate, bit-rate, etc. at a time. Try enabling the "use MME" option in Sonar.
The bottom line is some setting either in the cards drivers/control panel or
Sonar are incompatible with one of the cards and defaults to the other card.
If you only want to use the SB for MIDI just deselect the SB in the
Options/Drivers tab in Sonar (leave the other card selected). Reprofile your
cards in Sonar, shut down Sonar, and restart it and you should be set.


"Olivier Demaine" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
>
> I try to use sonar2 with two sound cards (a sekd arc88 and a SB CT4810) on
> windows2000.
> But I can not have the two card sinultaneously in sonar. If in windows
> control panel, I deactivate the sound blaster, I get only the arc88 in
> sonar, if I reactivate it, I get only the SB in sonar.
>
> I want to use the arc88 for the audio et use the sound blaster only for
the
> midi.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Olivier
>
>
>

[Olivier Demaine]

It was a imcompatible driver problem like said Ricky. MME et WDM. If I
enabled "always use MME interface" it work.

Thanks everybody

"Olivier Demaine" > a écrit dans le message
de news: ...
> Hello
>
> I try to use sonar2 with two sound cards (a sekd arc88 and a SB CT4810) on
> windows2000.
> But I can not have the two card sinultaneously in sonar. If in windows
> control panel, I deactivate the sound blaster, I get only the arc88 in
> sonar, if I reactivate it, I get only the SB in sonar.
>
> I want to use the arc88 for the audio et use the sound blaster only for
the
> midi.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Olivier
>
>
>

[Ricky W. Hunt]

"Olivier Demaine" > wrote in message
...
> It was a imcompatible driver problem like said Ricky. MME et WDM. If I
> enabled "always use MME interface" it work.
>

Olivier, in general I think WDM is a better driver and definitely offers
lower latency. You can still use WDM is you deselect the SB card in Sonar.

[Roger W. Norman]

A couple of days late, but I would think, even with the same IRQ if the Sekd
was using ASIO and the SB WDM, you should be able to use both at the same
time. If both are using WDM and the same IRQ I would think it would simply
lock up the application, at worst, or, at best, present you with pretty much
the same problems.

Save a slot, turn on USB and get a midi device that will use USB. Win2K
isn't the best midi platform in the world, nor with audio devices for that
matter, when they run over 20 inputs, but in this case, if the SB is
STRICTLY for midi, I'd dump it. Sometimes eliminating a problem simply
means move on. Often it doesn't, but in this case you can find an
inexpensive USB midi device without much more than a little computer
shopping.

It's kinda like Sun Tsu said, pick your battles or at least pick the
circumstances that make it easiest for you to win. And after 5000 computer
builds, I'm willing to be the one that says uncle, because a computer never
will.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
Purchase your copy of the Fifth of RAP CD set at www.recaudiopro.net.
See how far $20 really goes.




"Olivier Demaine" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
>
> I try to use sonar2 with two sound cards (a sekd arc88 and a SB CT4810) on
> windows2000.
> But I can not have the two card sinultaneously in sonar. If in windows
> control panel, I deactivate the sound blaster, I get only the arc88 in
> sonar, if I reactivate it, I get only the SB in sonar.
>
> I want to use the arc88 for the audio et use the sound blaster only for
the
> midi.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Olivier
>
>
>