[RTTY] using santa cruz turtle beach as second sound card

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Mark wrote:
>It looks like the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card really doesn't like to
>operate with a second sound
>card.  It's running under WIN98SE and the second card is based on Crystal
>CS4281. If I run the Santa
>Cruz as the default sound card, MMTTY does not see the second card.  If I
>set the onboard sound card
>as default, MMTTY seems to do ok but the Santa Cruz control panel doesn't
>see it's sound card installed.  The Turtle Bay website says Multiple Santa
>Cruz cards are not supported but no mention of
>working with other brands.
>
>Has anyone has had better luck with this type of configuration or can I just
>ignore the Santa Cruz control
>panel problems?

Win98SE is certainly capable of running two separate instances of the 
MMTTY plugin for WriteLog, each with its own sound card. The trick is 
that you *always* have to manually configure the second instance of 
MMTTY to look for the correct card.

The next two paragraphs are much harder to describe than to do!

The MMTTY .ini file stores the number of the sound card to which it will 
try to connect at startup. The "factory" default is card number -1 
(minus one) which means "the first card it finds". When you're running 
two instances of MMTTY, you have to configure the card numbers manually 
as 0 and 1 respectively. This should work, unless there is some feature 
specific to the TB card that prevents it.

However, the next time you start up, both instances of MMTTY will read 
the same .ini file, so they will *both* be looking for the same card. 
The first card will connect OK; but the second instance will always give 
you a "Can't find card N" message (because the first instance is already 
using that card). Don't let it faze you - simply go into the setup menus 
for the second instance, and point it to the *other* card number. Bingo!

That looks a bit complicated, but try it a few times and it quickly 
becomes routine.

There are more details on WA9ALS's site (I believe that is
http://www.qsl.net/wa9als but it's not connecting right now).


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73 from Ian G3SEK