SB Live synth through Audiophile outs?

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Is there a way to internally route the built in MIDI synth of the SB Live out through the analog outs of my M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card?

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Scott
 
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Nope... you can't internally route SB Live!'s MIDI synth to 2496 Out. But you can route the SBLive! output to 2496 audio in, and monitor thru the 2496...

SB Live! Line Out --> 2496 Line in

2496 Line Out --> Sound system


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I ran a cable from the line-out of my SBLive to the tape-ins on my little desktop mixer, the main outs of which go into the inputs of my 24-bit card.. Works great.

Or, do away with the SBLive altogether. I've had such good luck with the Bismark BS-1 soundfont player ($30) that I'm not even putting an SBLive in my new DAW. You can load up really large soundfonts and get great quality.

There is a new freeware soundfont renderer at http://www.rundt.de.vu/ but I just downloaded it and have not tried it yet but it may do the job with a good general GM soundfont, too.
 
Thanks for your help...I'll be sure to check out those links.

-Scott
 
But you can route the SBLive! output to 2496 audio in, and monitor thru the 2496...
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You know, I see this suggestion a bunch, and I scratch ny head and wonder...

Why?

If you route the SB Live's own Line Out to a mixer, and the Audiophile or whatever other sound card too, that's all you need to do.

If you route the SB Live's Line Out to the L and R ins of the Audiophile, you tie up both your inputs, and you go through an extra conversion step:

SB Live's internal synth --> {D/A conversion} --> SB Line Out --> Audiophile Line In --> {A/D conversion} --> Audiophile WAV stream

I think a lot of people mus be assuming that since the Audipohile is a superior soundcard, routing to it and monitoring from it must improve over the SB Live's output.

But the SB Live's output is what it is, and all this processs does is re-digitize it, and even if it were a perfect rendering of the original signal, it would never be better.

So, what's the point? The only reason I can see is if you only have powered speakers and no mixer, and hence can only monitor off of one sound card. But that still leaves you with the problem of tying up the imputs on the primary soundcard, meaning you'll have to disconnect and reconnect them over and over to do any recording.
 
There is another way to do it. Connect SBLive's SPDIF out to Audiophile's SPDIF in, and you'll remain in the digital domain all the way. No extra DA/AD conversions or mixing required.
There is a catch though. SBLive's SPDIF is fixed at 48 kHz, so Audiophile should be set to 48 kHz too. Personally, I think it's a small price to pay for the benefits this approach brings (zero latency and no CPU load). Furthermore, in cases when 32 Mb worth of samples is not enough, you can use LiveSynthPro or other similar tool alongside SBLive.
 
Yup, that works too, but once again you tie up a physical connection which you might have other uses for, when for monitoring purposes all you need to do is run both soundcard's outs to a small mixer before the amp and speakers...
 
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