mutiple sound cards in ableton live

**fbonito** · 08-02-2011, 07:14 AM

in my project sifão i've included a exterior sound car for line in and line out.

since i don't have a fancy sound card, i got a crappy usb type pen just enough to get something in and out

now to problem "how to connect two sound cards", the internal and this pen type crap

i use the asio4all driver that allows to connect multiple sound cards and you can assign what you want each one "ear", unfortunately i didn't found a way to send the same thing trough 2 outputs...

digging in ableton live i've found that you can set one output in master for two channels 1/2 (left and right) and you can assign individual tracks to another two channels 3/4 (left and right - the external sound card) but again, it doesn't allow to send the master to 1/2 and 3/4 at the same time.

so i've created a audio track and in the input routed to the master and the output to the 3/4, so the master will go to 1/2 and the audio track will go to 3/4, just as simple as that.

since we are talking about crappy material, there is a slightly latency between the two outputs but is nothing big...

does anyone have a better way to have the same thing going out to 2 sound cards? help appreciated...

thanks

**DJ Phatso** · 08-02-2011, 09:39 AM

A better way would be to get a multi-output soundcard with ASIO drivers and cut down the trouble of having to deal with multiple soundcards...

**djchriswoods.co.uk** · 08-02-2011, 09:42 AM

ableton should deal with the multiples on its own ok

**fbonito** · 08-03-2011, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by djchriswoods.co.uk

ableton should deal with the multiples on its own ok

how?

**fbonito** · 08-03-2011, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by DJ Phatso

A better way would be to get a multi-output soundcard with ASIO drivers and cut down the trouble of having to deal with multiple soundcards...

yes that's the idea... but in the meanwhile ...

**DigitalDevil** · 08-03-2011, 06:53 AM

AFAIK what you're trying to do isn't possible in ableton itself... I tried for a while and the only workaround I managed was routing the same input signal to two channels in ableton, having those two output externally to something with multiple channels like Soundflower, and having that route to multiple soundcards.