4 tracks at a time w/Santa Cruz

[Icantwait]

I currently have a Santa Cruz sound card in my computer and I'm interested in using that while I save up for a better sound card. I was wondering if there was a way to record 4 mono tracks at a time using n-track and the santa cruz card. Thanks for your help.

 

[sae]

I am not to sure on which model of Santa Cruz cards you are talking about (I know nothing about that company-not that i haven't heard of it though)

anyway...if you have 4 inputs or 2 stereo inputs and a wdm or asio driver for windows then you can use n-tracks.

Bottom line is that n-tracks supports 99.9999% of all cards out there (to my knowledge at least-and from what I read on this forum)

Have you tried searching this forum?

 

[Icantwait]

I've done that, I havn't seen Santa Cruz specific directions. There are directions to get it working with multiple input on the Turtle Beach and N-Track websites but when I try both it does not work.

The card is the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card that comes with Dells.

 

[sae]

Have you tried splitting one stereo channel to two mono ones?

 

[sm2k]

Do you have two stereo line inputs? If not, the answer is no. If yes, then the answer is yes.

Slackmaster 2000

 

[badassmak]

It looks like there is the option of 2 stereo inputs at once on that card, a regular line in plus the versajack, so that could be line 1+2 plus line 3+4, however upon further examination of a picture found at the soundcard mfg. website, it would appear it will only let you select one input at a time.

http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/santacruz/whatdoiget.asp

then the first thing that says 'click here for control panel details'...gives you a more detailed look.

Having said all of this, I am basing my assumption on a picture of the actual control panel. Try asking in the computer recording and soundcards forum if this soundcard has multiple ins you can use at once. If not, you're hooped.

 

[sm2k]

Weird, why would they give you two stereo lines but only let you use one at a time?

Slackmaster 2000

 

[Gidge]

you can use both at once......

 

[Icantwait]

got it

I got it. I had to follow the instructions on the Turtle Beach site and update my drivers from there because Dell is a year behind on their drivers. One of the inputs is better than the other so I'll use that one to start out with.