Sound from 2 CD drives, How?

[gemstone]

Could someone please tell me how to get sound from both PlexWriter 12/10/32A and Pioneer DVD drive. The plextor came with a CD audio cable and the dvd came with a CD audio cable and CD digital cable but there is only one CD audio slot on the SB X-Gamer. The other slots say aux and telephone.

Thanks,

 

[jmsazul]

use the DVD's digital output into the SB xgamer card's digital input, stay with analog to the plextor drive, to be able to hear sound from the dvd you need to enable it in the sound blaster control panel, another option is to use the aux input in the card for the dvd. My suggestion is to stay with digital. Enjoy!

 

[jblondi]

You can also buy a cd sound cable with two ends. They have them at pccables.com. Just use the aux, or digital input like was stated above for an easy fix. Make sure to turn the sound on for the aux or digital channel.

 

[jblondi]

You can also buy a cd sound cable with two ends. They have them at pccables.com. Just use the aux, or digital input like was stated above for an easy fix. Make sure to turn the sound on for the aux or digital channel.

 

[Grafinator]

if you do not want to use the digital link for the Pioneer, you can use the AUX to connect the second CD drive. Just make sure in the mixer that AUX is not muted and it will be good to go.

 

[gemstone]

Thanks for responding so quickly.
Ok I just installed the software that came with the sound card but I can't find where to enable the DVD drive in the sound blaster control panel (that's the bar at the top of the monitor, right?) Feeling kind of stupid here. Please point me there real slow
Thanks again,

 

[jmsazul]

OK, you need to go to the surround mixer and there are two sliders with a CD icon, one of them has lige jagged line this is for the digital input, the other one I think has a wavy line this one is for analog (get it?), now the analog one should be already enabled, it has the button on top red, the digital one is off and grey, to turn it on push it and it should turn red, now just adjust the gain (move up or down the slider) and that's it. I think you need to save that seeting otherwaise it would revert to no sound when you reboot.