installing two pci128 sound cards?

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With my Mackie 1202, using channel out/insert plugs, I am recording two simultainous tracks (right and left stereo on the mini plug). So now I am thinking that with another card I can do 4 tracks at once. but -- Will win98 be confused with a double installation, is it better to use two different cards so that the individual card mixers aren/t confusing, will the windows vol. recording have two line in sliders, and am I going to run into unknown problems and confusion? Any help is a help, thanks,
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No. Windows sees them as two different peices of equipment. Even if you buy something like an 8 channel soundcard, Windows will see it as 4 stereo cards. That's why in all of your audio programs they ask you which card to use. Because you might have more than one.
 
Sorry, whoopysnorp, that's not generally right....

The SB cards will not work in multiples because the drivers were not designed to handle that. Basically the software has no way to distinguish between the two. You can run different cards from different mfgs, though you can't expect them to lock together very tightly. Certain cards are designed to allow multiple card use (the Delta series, MOTU cards, others).

You might have heard of people using two SB Lives. This is possible by having one controlled by APS drivers (a variant product marketed as the Emu Audio Production Studio which has the same core hardware as the SB Live). This works because the drivers are different enough that it's as if they are two distinct devices.
 
You would be much better off for sound quality and ease of use if you just get a soundcard with more inputs.
 
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