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16877	2001-08-12 04:05:00	HI, I'm an amateur sound engineer and i'm wanting to make a Computer dedicated for the recording process only. To do this cheaply, i am wanting to have 3 sound cards installed in my machine so i can get up to 6 tracks recorded simultanously (left/right). I have been told that i might get conflicts if i try to install 3 sound cards? I have 1 ISA and 3 PCI slots spare. Can you please tell me if this could work and maybe a good way of doing it? Thank you very much. **i know for for sure that the recording software i use can support different sound cards for each track**	Guest (0)
16878	2001-08-12 08:06:00	Well you aren't going to want to use the ISA because it has very limited bandwith, and hogs the CPU. I can't think of any problem with having 3x sound cards, although you will want to get decant quality ones. You will also want to get a decent OS to handle it, win 2000, or enen better I have seen some Linux Distros that are designed exactly for what you want, unfortunatly I havn't been able to find a homepage for any of them.	Guest (0)
16879	2001-08-15 06:26:00	I recently setup a Radio station file server which broadcasts .wav files via two soundcards. It ran originally on W98, but we upgraded to W2k for reliabilty (the thing would inavriably crash every 3-5 days at 2am or such like). Both OS's coped well with 2 cards - but they were diffenet makes/models. I recall that we we used two Creative AWE 64's - the PC got confused and occasionally broadcast simulateneously on both. We ended up using a Guillemot Fortissimo and a Creative AWE Gold card. I'd recommend using 2 PCI cards and 1 ISA as your PCI bus will likely be overloaded anyway.	Guest (0)
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