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- From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: hooking a roland midi and a soundblaster together...
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 09:05:36 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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- In article <lnosek.0m0e@amiganet.chi.il.us> lnosek@amiganet.chi.il.us (Luke Nosek) writes:
- > my friend has both a roland midi and a soundblaster and he'd like to
- >combine the output of both devices... trouble is when he uses a simple y
- >adapter to do this, as soon as he hooks in the sb, the roland cannot be heard.
- >
- > is there simple way of doing this barring gettting two amps or a mixer?
- > Luke Nosek
-
- Hi. I can't speak for the SB, but it is easy to do this with a PAS+ card,
- which I believe is similar. I have the PAS+ and a Roland LAPC-1 in the same
- computer. All MPC compliant soundcards have an onboard mixer. I just feed
- the Roland output into the line-in jacks on the PAS+ card. Then you can
- adjust the relative levels using the mixer software. Both play together fine
- if you have drivers installed for both (I use the Cakewalk for Windows demo).
- For each track of a midi song file, I just select which synth I want to
- play it (the Roland or the FM synth on the PAS+).
-
- CDrom audio, .wav files, etc. are also combined with the 2 synthesizers by
- the mixer. I should point out that the Roland synth sounds so much better
- than the Yamaha FM synth on these cards that there is little practical use
- for mixing the 2 that I can see (er, hear....)
-
- Dave
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