Separate Volume Controls for 8 Channel Sound Card

[tedanderson]

I have a Soundblaster audio card for my PC that has 7.1 capability (which essentially makes it an 8-channel card) My plan is to connect it to 4 different amplifiers via a 1/8" to 2 RCA's so that I can send audio to 4 different parts of the facility and I would like to be able to control the volumes on each amp separately from the PC.

Does anyone know of a program that will let me control the volume levels of the sound card outputs separately? The input/source material will be the same as it will either be coming from a CD or it will come off of the main audio mix during the Sunday production.

Thanks!

[pdc]

Originally Posted by tedanderson

I have a Soundblaster audio card for my PC that has 7.1 capability (which essentially makes it an 8-channel card) My plan is to connect it to 4 different amplifiers via a 1/8" to 2 RCA's so that I can send audio to 4 different parts of the facility and I would like to be able to control the volumes on each amp separately from the PC.

Does anyone know of a program that will let me control the volume levels of the sound card outputs separately? The input/source material will be the same as it will either be coming from a CD or it will come off of the main audio mix during the Sunday production.

Thanks!

You need DAW or live mixing software with surround panning, or you need. This is the only way you are going to get 8 tracks of discrete material to play over eight channels. I would verify that the .1 channel is a full range channel and is not processed on the card as a sub or LFE channel.

Why not do it right and skip the Soundblaster fiasco?

[tedanderson]

Why not do it right and skip the Soundblaster fiasco?

Primarily because I want to use what I already have without the time and expense associated with building a new DAW. With some extensive searching I found this website which had exactly what I was looking for.

This is something that I'd recommend to other members of this forum as it has quite a few useful tools for anyone who uses their PC to play and/or record audio.

It has a really nice graphical interface that lets you visually make routing connections from point A to point B and allows you to put various things in between your connections such as effects, compression, additional volume controls, etc.

So for example, if your sound card has 2 outputs on it.. say the green jack and black jack, you can set up one for use with a set of head phones while using the other for your output to the audio console.. say that you want to cue up a video or some music during a different part of the service. You can do it without the audio outputting to the console.

And I know it's probably better to do something like this via the console but it would be great for setups where there is high dependency on the PC.