Scope as a general purpose soundcard
Scope as a general purpose soundcard
Just curious - I have a dual boot system and want to use Scope as my general purpose soundcard on my other internet/office partition. Do I need to load the entire Scope platform in order to use Scope just to play MP3's or WAV files? Or can I just load the drivers and be done with it?
Re: Scope as a general purpose soundcard
just make a very simple project with the outputs from wav driver going to main output and have it as the startup project.
if you need asio as well you might get the simplest mixer you can and mix asio and wav together, then send to main outs.
if you need asio as well you might get the simplest mixer you can and mix asio and wav together, then send to main outs.
Re: Scope as a general purpose soundcard
Thanks. I kinda figured it was an "all or nothing" proposition. 
Re: Scope as a general purpose soundcard
Scope has been able to happily co-exist with many other soundcards in my experience. The only time there are issues it's usually related to a very cheap motherboard and not Scope. In fact I prefer this, as it allows me to do 'windows' related crap on the non-Scope card (flash, media player etc) and keep Scope for the real duties. I do that on my other system that has RME for the 'audio' work, and onboard 7.1 channel (of which I use a stereo pair) sound for 'whatever'.
Re: Scope as a general purpose soundcard
I was told that couldn't be done........
I have an ancient Lynx One stereo card I always liked back when I was Giga and no Scope.
It's only a 16bit card, but my ears told me it sounded great.
It was much better than the WAMI-Rack, Echo and Frontier cards I demo'd then.
Maybe I should keep that handy as a backup solution if XITE-1 were to fail, and have it as my mp3/audio only?
I have an ancient Lynx One stereo card I always liked back when I was Giga and no Scope.
It's only a 16bit card, but my ears told me it sounded great.
It was much better than the WAMI-Rack, Echo and Frontier cards I demo'd then.
Maybe I should keep that handy as a backup solution if XITE-1 were to fail, and have it as my mp3/audio only?
Re: Scope as a general purpose soundcard
sure it can be done Jim.
is it a good idea?
depends...
does one have the xtra slots?
sometimes...
is it a good idea?
depends...
does one have the xtra slots?
sometimes...
Re: Scope as a general purpose soundcard
What doesn't work so well is using the 'Directsound' driver (whatever it is/was called) to route audio from the other soundcard's directsound driver into Scope. I think you can forgive a small company like CW/SC not keeping up with that though, given all the changes MS puts its directX code through.
So either an external way to switch or mix the signals (monitor controller?) is necessary, or one would need separate speakers connected etc. Nothing terribly complicated really. Personally I have 2 smaller mixers that I've used in the past as monitor controllers and my midrange 'main' desk that I use now. In fact the Scope box's 'consumer' grade soundcard is an ancient soundblaster live running the KX project drivers. I had to try several versions before I found a KX driver that was stable with multiprocessors (my Scope box is an older Xeon machine) and Scope together, but after spending a few hours fiddling one day it's been stable for years.
My primary machine has an RME Multiface+PCI HDSP card alongside the onboard Realtek ALC883 7.1 onboard 'crap' sound. Again the RME plays music that I enjoy listening to as well as doing audio tasks. The onboard sound is for games (lately Left4Dead) and Flash stuff/videos.
Truth be told the RME & Scope both would work just fine for almost everything, but locking all non-audio apps away from my pro cards has just become habit.
So either an external way to switch or mix the signals (monitor controller?) is necessary, or one would need separate speakers connected etc. Nothing terribly complicated really. Personally I have 2 smaller mixers that I've used in the past as monitor controllers and my midrange 'main' desk that I use now. In fact the Scope box's 'consumer' grade soundcard is an ancient soundblaster live running the KX project drivers. I had to try several versions before I found a KX driver that was stable with multiprocessors (my Scope box is an older Xeon machine) and Scope together, but after spending a few hours fiddling one day it's been stable for years.
My primary machine has an RME Multiface+PCI HDSP card alongside the onboard Realtek ALC883 7.1 onboard 'crap' sound. Again the RME plays music that I enjoy listening to as well as doing audio tasks. The onboard sound is for games (lately Left4Dead) and Flash stuff/videos.
Truth be told the RME & Scope both would work just fine for almost everything, but locking all non-audio apps away from my pro cards has just become habit.
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Next time I go to Vegas I'm digging up the Lynx One.
I haven't used it for so long I will update the drivers at LynxStudio and give it a go.
It is such a simple card, stereo only.
Ankyu........
I haven't used it for so long I will update the drivers at LynxStudio and give it a go.
It is such a simple card, stereo only.
Ankyu........