Post by seko on Apr 4, 2008 19:07:19 GMT
Hello,
Your work is highly appreciated here. Asio4all is great.
The story for my question:
I'm tring to help a friend who wants to play 20 different sounds from 20 different speakers at the same time. This will be an artwork for an exhibition and the souds will consist of looping samples, nothing live. The sound quality does not need to be the highest and the work must be on a budget.
What I thought for a solution is to buy 4 second-hand 5.1 SB Live (or equivalent) sound cards and plug them all to a pc and use asio4all, or maybe kx.
Would it be possible to get different outs from each card? And another question is if a mediocre pc could handle 4 soundcards when you have enough pci slots (IRQ problems maybe?). I only had a little experience with asio4all and it was with earlier versions, and it's been long since I used kx but something in my mind tells me that one could use two cards with the later versions of kx.
If four cards would not be possible, how about two cards on each of two different computers? If none of these options work, I will think of recording the sounds on surround channels to DVDs and use four DVD players.
Any idea will be highly useful.
Thanks in advance.
Serkan
Your work is highly appreciated here. Asio4all is great.
The story for my question:
I'm tring to help a friend who wants to play 20 different sounds from 20 different speakers at the same time. This will be an artwork for an exhibition and the souds will consist of looping samples, nothing live. The sound quality does not need to be the highest and the work must be on a budget.
What I thought for a solution is to buy 4 second-hand 5.1 SB Live (or equivalent) sound cards and plug them all to a pc and use asio4all, or maybe kx.
Would it be possible to get different outs from each card? And another question is if a mediocre pc could handle 4 soundcards when you have enough pci slots (IRQ problems maybe?). I only had a little experience with asio4all and it was with earlier versions, and it's been long since I used kx but something in my mind tells me that one could use two cards with the later versions of kx.
If four cards would not be possible, how about two cards on each of two different computers? If none of these options work, I will think of recording the sounds on surround channels to DVDs and use four DVD players.
Any idea will be highly useful.
Thanks in advance.
Serkan