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Topic: Looking for soundcard suggestions

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Now that VDJ7 is out. I would love to add another couple players. they would just make a few mixes and activities we do much easier.

Currently our system includes:

Denon X-500
Den HC-4500
HP DV5 laptop.

Everything has been working great!! but the HC4500 only has 2 outputs. do I use the built in soundcard?? or should I add another card through USB? or is there a decent Expresscard/54 solution?

currently we use 2 external drives. 1 USB and 1 eSATA there is 1 more USB port on the laptop.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

DJNuance
 
Posted Sat 16 Oct 10 @ 12:51 am
If you could put up with running in mono then you could do four channels without any extra kit since the HC4500 has 4 rca sockets on it. Not sure what people think about that anyway.

The NI audio 2 DJ is the smallest and best value way to add 2 extra outputs to your setup in my opinion. No idea how well two different sound cards would play together in the new vdj, you'd have to ask someone who's tried I guess.
 
i have the same set up denon x5800 and the denon hc4500. The hc 4500 is only a 2 channel sound card. So i have a Gigaport HD 8 channel external sound card. I went into the config of vdj and clicked on the advanced sound to setup the 4 decks to be played through the 8 channels on the Gigaport HD. I had to config the Gigaport HD to use 8 channels first. The only problem i have so far is it is only using 6 channels
which only allows me to use 3 decks on seperate channels of the x500. The 4th deck plays but it is coming out of my channel one on the Gigaport HD. I look at the Gigaport and the 7 and 8 channels are not even blinking which means they are not getting the signal. So i have to find out if its my setting in VDJ or if the config on the Gigaport is set to 6 instead of 8, will post back when i figure it out.
 
 
 
djernie2 wrote :
djernie2 wrote :
i have the same set up denon x500 and the denon hc4500. The hc 4500 is only a 2 channel sound card. So i have a Gigaport HD 8 channel external sound card. I went into the config of vdj and clicked on the advanced sound to setup the 4 decks to be played through the 8 channels on the Gigaport HD. I had to config the Gigaport HD to use 8 channels first. The only problem i have so far is it is only using 6 channels
which only allows me to use 3 decks on seperate channels of the x500. The 4th deck plays but it is coming out of my channel one on the Gigaport HD. I look at the Gigaport and the 7 and 8 channels are not even blinking which means they are not getting the signal. So i have to find out if its my setting in VDJ or if the config on the Gigaport is set to 6 instead of 8, will post back when i figure it out.




My solution was to use the Denon HC 4500 on Deck 1 & Deck 2, and use the Gigaport HD on Deck 3 & Deck 4, which allows me to use the 4 decks on 4 channels on the X500 Denon mixer. I still have to figure out why the Gigaport will not play all 8 channels, it may have something to do with the drivers, each time i run the driver setup the software cannot locate the device connected to the laptop, so i think my problem may be there, but i will figure it out and post back. At least i have 4 individual decks going out the mixer, which is what i wanted.
 
Figured it out. I have more than one gigaport sound card. The one i was trying to configure was not the HD but the AG. So i downloaded the drivers for it. Well one laptop is windows 7 and the drivers for windows seven would not work so i used the drivers for vista and Bingo! i downloaded the drivers for the Gigaport AG, and i have all eight channels running which enable me to run 4 independent decks. Its awesome. I can still control my decks one and two with the hc45oo controller because i plugged the usb in to a usb on the laptop. So although i am not using the Denon asio sound card plugging it in still gives me the ability to use the hc4500 controls if i choose. I will use my Gigaport HD with one of the other systems we have, but at least i know it will work. The reason the HD would not work is because i was plugging in the AG and thats why the download manager would not recognize the device, DUH.
 
 
hey guys...i'm a little bit rookey and i would like your help..i just had a format in my laptop,i installed the 5.2 vdj version and the asio4all soundcard,but i can't hear from my headphones..i managed to do something about the ''not enough channels'' that popped out when i was choosing the ''headphones mode'' by clicking some things in the config. menu of asio,but i still can't hear from my headphones...any ideas???
 
Thank you for the suggestions! I was actually looking at the NI soundcard. still doing some research etc but will try to remember to come back and put what I chose when I make the decision and why
 


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