Two sound cards?

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Can a computer (PII, 350Hz, 128 RAM)use two sound cards? One of the programs I use prefers a Sound Blaster card. I have a 20 bit Layla. Since the Layla is a "better" card than any SB care, shouldn't it work? If I installed a SB card would I get in trouble?
 
If you installed an SB Live you might have to sort out potential harware conflicts but it should work fine. I have a Delta 66 and Sound Blaster Live and they are happy together.

What software program are you talking about that "prefers" a Sound Blaster Live? Any audio card should be able to work with any Windows audio program. (And yes, the Layla is a much better audio device than is the SB Live). But the Layla does differ from the Sound Blaster card in one important respect -- the SB has a on-board MIDI wavetable synthesizer and the Layla does not.
 
Two soundcards

Thanks for the response -- the program I'm trying to use (in addition to Logic Platinum -- which is a different story) is called "Melody Lab."

It's a program into which a person can sing, and the computer will tell the singer if the sung pitches and rhythms correspond to the printed pitches and rhythms. It sounds like a cool program for my chorus members, if only I can get this phase of it to work.
 
Sounds like no MIDI capability would be absolutely necessary for something like that.
 
2 sound cards

Right! -- However, other aspects of the program require input from a midi keyboard.
 
ditch the sb. The layla can accomodate the whole show. Yes it has midi. You can install two but its pointless. and all you will do there is use up IRQ's
 
But my SB Live gives me a pretty good synth and a hell of a decent sampler for $75. Since I have no external synths or samplers, there's no way I'd give it up...
 
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