Talk:Sound card

SBLive Outdated?

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The SBLive Value is described as "Outdated". I have that card on a high-end Vista gaming rig and it works perfectly. To me it is not outdated, but to a gamer who uses only the latest hardware it would be. What I'm trying to say is if a card can be described as "outdated" or not relies solely on opinion and feelings, wikipedia must avoid "facts" based solely on opinions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.230.79.56 (talk) 18:10, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

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Two channels

I wonder what the best solution to play two music channels might be? I've got two rooms and I'd like to play two different songs in each room, both receiving their audio from the computer. I would be greatful for some good advice.

Hope this helps

There are probably more effective ways to do this but this is probably easiest and cheapest.

I would use some editing software (audacity would probably do it) to mix down a stereo song into a mono one and pan that hard left. Do the same with the right channel. Keep them in the same project in your software and align as appropriate.

I assume you're using a consumer-grade soundcard, in which case you will have a single stereo output - what you'll need to do is a get a "Y-splitter"; this is an adaptor cable that turns one male stereo jack into 2 female mono-jacks (these are quite widely available). On one end you'll want a 1/8" TRS jack (the kind that plugs into your computer) and what you have on the other end depends on the inputs for your sound systems in the two rooms.

Connect it all up and press play.

(Alternatively you can use a mixing desk - which you can get fairly cheaply [Behringer Xanyx 502 or a Tapco 50 for example] - if you do this then you'll have more control over levels.)

A (much) more expensive (stereo) solution would be to get an audio interface with 4 channels or more. You could then put the left of one song, into channel one; the right into channel 2; left of the second song in 3; and right of it in 4 - link up as apropriate and press play.

-Sebbi

sound card

Pls I want to know comprehensively how a sound card works and I will also like to see the circuit diagram of the different components of the sound card . Thank you.

Good idea. This page needs a block diagram. — Omegatron 20:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I guess that chips documentation has block diagrams. License issues might prevents the article to include the diagrams as is. But a link is probably fine. As a single example, I did not look for others, Sound card#Hardware manufacturers has an internal link to Philips SAA1099. The 1st link at Philips SAA1099#External links is Philips SAA1099 > External links > Documentation. Which, among others, point to SAA1099-ORIG DATASHEET 1 (EN). Where page 2, out of 15, of the single pdf that it contains has a block diagram. Since today cards are mostly fabricated on silicon, their block diagrams can be seen as the sound card block diagrams. 109.253.181.135 (talk) 18:40, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Still no block diagram. Here's what's in a classic SoundBlaster card. ~Kvng (talk) 23:39, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

POV Editorializing

I'm confused as to why the article states "Confusingly, the term sound card is also applied to external audio interfaces that use software to generate sound, as opposed to using hardware inside the PC." What source says that people are confused by this? USB sound cards do virtually the same thing as internal cards. They are cards, just in a different form and connected with a cable instead of PCI. It just seems unnecessary, POV and unsourced. --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 05:28, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

This statement is no longer in the article. ~Kvng (talk) 23:42, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Problem with this sentence

"... with units providing separated outputs usually allow both playback and monitoring from one system." There is something fishy with this sentence. --Mortense (talk) 21:37, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

This statement is no longer in the article. ~Kvng (talk) 23:43, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Proposed merge with List of sound card standards

I see no real reason why this page needs to be standalone. It would be better merged into the Sound card page Skamecrazy123 (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Merge was apparently performed. List of sound card standards now redirects to Sound card#List of sound card standards. ~Kvng (talk) 23:44, 30 October 2024 (UTC)