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I have a pretty decent question about soundcards and PCI DACs

Ensefalon

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I haven't used a sound card in almost 3 years since the rollout of HDMIs Audio streaming. I have a studio running an FL studio and I want to take the outputs of each and every track in FL Studio and pipe it out to my 20 channel Ramsa WR-T820B. With soundcards now having multiple outputs, Could each of these ports on a sound card be represented as its own playback device in windows? Like as in a situation where you are using both a set of headphones and speakers taking the sounds from different applications?



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No -- Simply no. It wasn't designed for that.
 
FreedomEclipse said:
Can you write your own drivers for your soundcard?
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My question in theory, Is how do I bring individual virtual channels into separate analog outputs using maybe one or two DACs or soundcards?
 
What are you trying to achieve?
You can record small tracks from Fl studio to .wav - like only kick, only keys, and so on, as many instruments as you have - then feed that to mixer... If you want to do final alignments, levels on mixer. But if its only a FL track, then finish it there export it to .wav - much higher quality (no need to worry about digital-to-analog converter). Only do the mixer way if you want to align it with band, or other hardware instruments.
 
cakehunter said:
What are you trying to achieve?
You can record small tracks from Fl studio to .wav - like only kick, only keys, and so on, as many instruments as you have - then feed that to mixer... If you want to do final alignments, levels on mixer. But if its only a FL track, then finish it there export it to .wav - much higher quality (no need to worry about digital-to-analog converter). Only do the mixer way if you want to align it with band, or other hardware instruments.
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Lets say I want each individual track from fl studio to be ran to each individual channel on my mixer, How do I accomplish this?
 
"Lets say I want each individual track from fl studio to be ran to each individual channel on my mixer, How do I accomplish this?"

There must be an option to export instrument by instrument in FL. Then export each instrument into a wav. If you trust your soundcard with d-t-a then play each wav and record it on your mixer (I am not familiar, but I assume they have storage capabilities? kind of again digital, catch 22? not using any reel tapes?) Once you have the wav, if you are unhappy with current d-t-a, you can always play it again on some other device and capture on that mixer again and easily substitute previos capture)
You may want to export it (and play for capture) in 24bit 96khz. If you used 44khz samples then it`s not useful, but if there are soft-synth-generators then higher than CD quality might be useful.
 
cakehunter said:
"Lets say I want each individual track from fl studio to be ran to each individual channel on my mixer, How do I accomplish this?"

There must be an option to export instrument by instrument in FL. Then export each instrument into a wav. If you trust your soundcard with d-t-a then play each wav and record it on your mixer (I am not familiar, but I assume they have storage capabilities? kind of again digital, catch 22? not using any reel tapes?) Once you have the wav, if you are unhappy with current d-t-a, you can always play it again on some other device and capture on that mixer again and easily substitute previos capture)
You may want to export it (and play for capture) in 24bit 96khz. If you used 44khz samples then it`s not useful, but if there are soft-synth-generators then higher than CD quality might be useful.
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I don't care for sample qualities, I am doing this so as in, I can use my mixer for further mastering

I am simply asking for a direct bridge between each track on fl studio and each track on my mixer. This isn't strictly for recording either and I don't want to bust my ass with exporting.

How would I run a 2.5mm Jack from my computer into my mixer is what I want to know. And each jack going to each channel on my mixer? How do I configure this
 
You might be able to do this with USB sound cards and virtual audio cable. Search for it on the net. One VAC is free, the other is paid.
 
The software does not have this option.
And 2.5 mm ? I think you mean 1/4 or 3.5
 
Jetster said:
The software does not have this option.
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Elaborate, I know FL studio can output to individual Audio interfaces, the question is how do I do that 16 times over?
 
Not at the same time from individual tracks
 
I'm not a professional sound engineer but why hypotheticly would you want to connect a studio mixer to another mixer?
 
Forget about your analog mixer. FLStudio won't be able to stream individual tracks to individual outputs, nor does this idea make any practical sense.

Sell your mixer, gather all that cash you wanted to spend on half-a-dozen audio interfaces, throw in a few bucks for all the time, nerves and manual labor you've saved and just buy a mixer with both MIDI and analog interfaces. Less hassle and no chance of desync between audio cards (assuming that what you were asking is actually doable with consumer hardware).
 
Jetster said:
I'm not a professional sound engineer but why hypotheticly would you want to connect a studio mixer to another mixer?
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I would be connecting FL studio to the mixer so I can mix things alongside vocals and hardware instruments without spending a shitload of cash on audio interfaces.

silentbogo said:
Forget about your analog mixer. FLStudio won't be able to stream individual tracks to individual outputs, nor does this idea make any practical sense.

Sell your mixer, gather all that cash you wanted to spend on half-a-dozen audio interfaces, throw in a few bucks for all the time, nerves and manual labor you've saved and just buy a mixer with both MIDI and analog interfaces. Less hassle and no chance of desync between audio cards (assuming that what you were asking is actually doable with consumer hardware).
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Who the hell sells a mixer with still functioning and perfectly good rupert neve pres? Consumer hardware cards don't get out of sync, Not to my experience anyway. I've ran multiple soundcards before without this effect being demonstrated. And IF I can't run fl studio to individual tracks why does FL studio support the functionality of doing it in the first place? Even WITH multiple channels at a time?


By the time I sold my mixer, I would be an old man getting calls from a Rupert Neve/RCA Museum wanting me to give it away
 
Audio interfaces are not that expensive
 
Jetster said:
Audio interfaces are not that expensive
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The word expensive varies on meaning for whomever you talk to. In my situation, I would want a decent audio interface. Get off this post...
 
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