I replace my old sound card, which had a Stereo Mix channel and level control on its mixer, with a Sound Blaster Audigy FX card. The new mixer has only two channels of recording: Mic and Line In. Both work. I've updated the drivers, but can't find one that adds Stereo Mix.
I then installed Realtek drivers and the Stereo Mix option appeared when I right-clicked on the speaker icon at the lower right corner and selected Recording Devices. (I right-clicked on the white area of the list of recording devices and checked the boxes Show Disconnected and Show Diabled Devices; no Stereo Mix.) However, the controller was still the one by Sound Blaster, and it was essentially disabled by the Realtek drivers.
Any ideas for getting the Stereo Mix function? My old card had it and was working with W8.1 Pro, so I can't say that a W8 driver is bad. I can't sort out if it's a missing piece of hardware on the Blaster card, or it's a software issue. One post somewhere said Stereo Mix was intentionally omitted or made hard to implement due to copyright issues (not recording audio from youtube.com, for example. In buying a new sound card, how can I tell if it will have Stereo Mix?
My recording software is Cool Edit Pro, 2.1.
I then installed Realtek drivers and the Stereo Mix option appeared when I right-clicked on the speaker icon at the lower right corner and selected Recording Devices. (I right-clicked on the white area of the list of recording devices and checked the boxes Show Disconnected and Show Diabled Devices; no Stereo Mix.) However, the controller was still the one by Sound Blaster, and it was essentially disabled by the Realtek drivers.
Any ideas for getting the Stereo Mix function? My old card had it and was working with W8.1 Pro, so I can't say that a W8 driver is bad. I can't sort out if it's a missing piece of hardware on the Blaster card, or it's a software issue. One post somewhere said Stereo Mix was intentionally omitted or made hard to implement due to copyright issues (not recording audio from youtube.com, for example. In buying a new sound card, how can I tell if it will have Stereo Mix?
My recording software is Cool Edit Pro, 2.1.
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