How can I do simultaneous record/playback in this scenario?

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I am trying to record guitar/bass tracks in Cakewalk's Guitar Tracks 2...I can play and have it record but cannot hear what i am playing at the same time. here's the set-up:

PC: PIII800, Win2k, 784MB RAM, 40 GB SCSI drive
2 soundcards: Delta 44, SBAudigy

computer speakers are connected to SB, guitar/bass is connected to delta 44.

Guitar Tracks is set to use the Delta card for playback and record as they should be for timing purposes.

I need to be able to hear prerecorded music and my bass simultaneously - I'd think that this could be accomplished by creating a monitor mix routed through the Audigy but I have no idea how to do this. Right now I'd be willing to try whatever to get it to work. I tried connecting speakers to the Delta44's outs, but I was unable to get the prerecorded music to come through the delta's outputs...would the OMNI do this for me?

Any suggestions? I'm pretty desperate...
 
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I don't know much about the Delta, but I expect that it's outs are line level, and need to be fed to an amp of some sort. You can't simply plug speakers into it unless they are powered.

Typically Windows only allows one default device for media playback. You could toggle between the Delta and the SB but not use both at the same time. Go into Control Panel / Multimedia (not sure what it's called under 2000) and select the Delta as the playback device. Then find an amp of some sort to feed it into, and I would guess that would be it.
 
Maybe you made a typo but if you have the speakers hooked up to the SB and have the Delta selected as the playback device you wont hear anything.

The speakers should work fine hooked up to the delta (if they are powered). Make sure you select the Delta for windows playback as Rwhite suggested to see if that is the problem.

I have a delta and a SB. I use the SB as the default windows audio card for MP3's and games. I use the delta in all my audio programs with no problems.

If the delta was just installed there is a good chance that there may be an IRQ conflict between the 2 audio cards.
 
TexRoadkill said:
Maybe you made a typo but if you have the speakers hooked up to the SB and have the Delta selected as the playback device you wont hear anything.

The speakers should work fine hooked up to the delta (if they are powered). Make sure you select the Delta for windows playback as Rwhite suggested to see if that is the problem.

I have a delta and a SB. I use the SB as the default windows audio card for MP3's and games. I use the delta in all my audio programs with no problems.

If the delta was just installed there is a good chance that there may be an IRQ conflict between the 2 audio cards.
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Good call - that was the initial problem. So, now I can get music to play through the Delta - but I can't do simultaneous record/playback, nor can I hear myself play bass through the card (when I was using just the SB, I could play through my PC w/o using any audio program - why couldn't I do that with the delta?

BTW: the speakers are powered, and now that I have the delta for playback that part isn't the issue.
 
the reason you can't use em both at once is asio and wdm drivers don't allow two different soundcards to run at the same time with one driver, as for not being able to hear the delta inputs without being in a audio program (ie. cakewalk), i'm guessing it's because asio drivers will only run in the audio apps that support it, i don't have a delta so i don't know of it's wdm, or other, driver support. check the setup in its control panel.

hope it helps
 
The Delta has WDM drivers, but so does the SB Live...
 
problem solved!

I solved the problem by runnign the computer speakers through the outputs of the delta, and changing multitrack driver devices to independant from single and in sync.
 
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