falling out of syn2 soundcards c with each other!

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My band is trying to setup and computer to run click tracks to the drummer and loops/fx to the main speakers using 2 soundcards. The problem were having is that they don't stay in time with each other.
They are both soundblaster type cards. Were running win xp, 1.3 gig athlon, 512 megs ram, 7200 rpm hd.


Any help would be appreciated..Thanks in advance..
 
Do you have the computers connected and timed by midi?
 
Also...................
What program are you using for the click-track?
 
Sync problem

I'm afraid that when you run more than one soundcard at the same time, this is always going to be a problem. Each card runs at its own internal clock speed, not an external reference. Athough each may be out from the nominal speed (say 41.4 khz) by less than a percent, over a few minutes the innaccuracy builds up, first leading to phasing then to outright seperation of the signals.

Sometimes better cards allow you to use an external clock to sync up, but you won't get that with SBs.

The only fix I've found for this (and it is by no means perfect) is to play back both cards, record onto one, and look how different the signals are in length. Then use a digital audio editor like Cool Edit to stretch to a high accuracy, making the 2 tracks the same length, or to different length if you want to play back on the original card.

That's a bit complicated, but it makes an improvement.

Simple answer is to get an 8-way soundcard, they go for as little as 240 pounds now.

Feel free to ask again,

matt
 
using 2 soundcards is the only way we came up with at the moment to do it. We had all the parts laying around and figured to give it a shot...But it looks like were goonna have to get a multichannel card...

Were using acid 3.0 and having the click track going out to one soundcard and the loops to another.

we only have the one computer...and it's not timed by midi?

Thanks for all the help guys...I appreciate it..
 
You could just pan your click track left and the loops to the right and run them into a mixer or out to seperate amps. Then you only need one soundcard.
 
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