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4.0 sound from 2 sound cards?

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Hello,

 

I have 2 sound blaster play 2's and i was wondering if there was a way that i could use the two of them to cover Front L+R and Rear L+R, from a video program. I'm helping set up an outdoor theater for a local youth group and we have access to 2 sound systems. so is there a way that we can run 4.0 sound over the 2 systems? The front and back speaker systems will be around 10 - 15m apart from each other. I know i could do it with a mobo with a realtek sound card but were planning on using a laptop that only has a 4 pole audio out.

 

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Josh

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nope

there is no intercommunication between sound cards unless somehow you can manage to find a custom driver that allows windows to use both as a combined output, which ive never ever heard of being possible

 

just split the 2.0 audio to 4 speakers and that will work fine, just without surround effects and stuff

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1 hour ago, Enderman said:

nope

there is no intercommunication between sound cards unless somehow you can manage to find a custom driver that allows windows to use both as a combined output, which ive never ever heard of being possible

 

just split the 2.0 audio to 4 speakers and that will work fine, just without surround effects and stuff

 

Well that's unfortunate, does anyone else know of a way to do this, the original video file  is 5.1

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11 minutes ago, JJHW149 said:

 

Well that's unfortunate, does anyone else know of a way to do this, the original video file  is 5.1

yeah, buy a cheap 5.1 sound card off craigslist

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3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

yeah, buy a cheap 5.1 sound card off craigslist

are there usb ones?

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2 minutes ago, JJHW149 said:

are there usb ones?

probably, just not very good ones

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10 hours ago, JJHW149 said:

are there usb ones?

Yes.

Just search usb 5.1 sound card

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You can try using something like this, it's not stellar but works on both Windows and Mac.

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The best way you can aproach that is by passing the audio digitally throught hdmi to a receiver. The problem is that unless the receiver has outputs for the preamps you'll be forced to use the amplifier itself for the speaker driving...

 

PD: Looks the're aren't very good sorround external cards out there :/ What a pitty, but it's still an option

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