Multiple Sound Cards

[TLT]

Apologies if this topic has been covered elsewhere, but after some time, I have not yet found a link to it!!

I am currently using SCS 9.5.4 on 15+ year old PCs. I am about to get new machines and am trying to find out whether I can install multiple (2 to start with) identical sound cards and have them recognised by SCS. From my old machines I know that I can find the motherboard sound device along with another Sound-blaster expansion sound card but I am not sure whether two identical sound cards will be recognised by either Windows 7 (chosen due to lack of Microsoft junk on Win 10) or SCS9 as separate entities. The files to be output will be standard stereo files but need to be sent to all four corners of the theatre, hence two cards, stereo front and rear. Unless, of course, I can use something like a Sound-blaster Audigy RX - 7.1 PCIe which appears to have front and rear outputs but I don't know if SCS 9 or any other version will access these outputs on this particular board. Any help of guidance will be very gratefully received.

[Mike Daniell]

Any of these options should be OK. If the budget allows, consider purchasing a Roland Quad-Capture which supports 4 outputs. (The main interface I use is a Roland Octa-Capture which supports 10 outputs.) There are other devices available as alternatives.

If SCS finds two or more devices with the same name, it appends #1 to the first such device, #2 to the second, and so on. (I've checked the source code of SCS 9 and this also includes the check on duplicate device names.)