How to integrate soundcards to work together

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I've got 2 soundcards installed in my computer. One emagic audiowerk 2 and the another is a Aztech 338 A3d.

Problem is that I don't know how to set them up to work together. Audiowerk is a audio interface that I use to record digital audio.
The aztech card is to handle my general MIDI.
How can I use them together? I also don't know how to connect them to my speakers.
What I'm doing now is to connect my speakers and switch between cards to what I'm recording at that moment.
 
There's Left and Right Analogue Out (RCA) from the audiowerk's card. But there's only one phone jack line -in for the aztech card.

Regards.
 
That's weird. I've never heard of a MIDI card that didn't have audio out. But if your Aztech is anything like the piece of junk Aztech card I just ripped out of my wife's machine after it caused her endless grief for months, I'd trash it.

As far as your speakers...why can't you connect the audio outs from the Audiowerk card to your speaker amp?
 
Yeah...the aztech card do have audio out.
I just can't figure out how can I to link both cards to one set of speakers.

If I connect the speakers to my audiowerks, then I can't listen to the aztech's MIDI right?
 
If you want to hear the midi coming out of the aztech and the audio coming out of the audiowerks, the only solution that comes to mind is a mixer. I have the output of the SB16 coming into a pair of channels and then outputs from the Aaardvark into another pair. To listen to both I just bring up the faders. Do you have some sort of a mixer that would allow you to do this? Keyboard mixer, micro mixer?
 
Is a mixer the only solution?

I can't afford one now, I will eventually.
Is there any cheap and good ones out there?
Any recommendations?
 
Can you have the line out of one card going to the line in of the other??
 
You might be able to get away with using a stereo Y adapter, like a headphone splitter, to mix the two signals. I've done this a couple times; so long as the combined power of the two outputs doesn't blow the speakers (which isn't too likely) you should be fine.

Hope this is useful

William Underwood
 
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