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How to split track on FL Studio with an audio splitter ?

Apr 7, 2015 11:19AM PDT

If you use an audio splitter (1/Cool to plug a heaphone and a speaker devices with a laptop. How To Hear 2 different itrack from each device on FL Studio. So, The Headphone is playing a track and the Speakers device is playing another track ?????

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Not a feature I've seen in Windows.
Apr 7, 2015 11:24AM PDT

This has to do with some basic Windows audio design. To play different tracks I had to use a DLNA device and a PLAY TO option.
Bob

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Thanks but FL Studio will recognize this DLNA ?
Apr 7, 2015 11:46AM PDT

DNLA is a audio plugin, a DLL, a program, Audio Driver????
How it works ? Where can I download it ?
And FL Studio will recognize this DNLA ?
so I can Choose in FL Studio To a play (EX: Track or Channel 1) to the headphone and
To a play (EX: Track or Channel 2) to the speaker

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Only FL studion may know.
Apr 7, 2015 11:56AM PDT

But one of the odd choices years ago was a single audio channel output. Only later with the Windows Play To feature did you get more options. I can't guess if FL supports this but I've seen this question many times over the years.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/66484-63-output-audio-devices-time goes over a way but again, FL Studio may or may not play along.
Bob

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(NT) thanks I'll try that and see if it works !!!!!
Apr 7, 2015 12:00PM PDT
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You have FL studio?
Apr 7, 2015 1:05PM PDT

How many output/s does it have? My reading says one, but multiple inputs. So from what I see, you can have separate outputs but not at the SAME time. I maybe wrong but why not give it a try. Have fun.

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I have one ouput for headphone, speaker ... (1/8)
Apr 7, 2015 2:37PM PDT

I have a Laptop connected to a midi keyboard to a speaker so One output for me playing Keyboard (music) and hearing my keyboard + sound and effect in FL Studio. But I add to to the output a Audio spliter so I can hear what I do or any sound from my computer to 2 differrent outpu at the same time one in my headphone and my speaker. the problem is that I play my song with a backing track in mp3. So What I would love is to have my midi Keyboard + sound and effect from Fl studio playing from my speaker ONLY. And My backing track in mp3 Playing from my Headphone only. So I could play with the mp3 backing track audio and just hear my FL Studio sound on the speaker so I could not be louder than the backing track. Please don't tell me to play Less loud beacuse I won't hear my self playing my instrument.

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In most laptops
Apr 7, 2015 8:32PM PDT

The headphone jack is not another audio output chunk of hardware but a switch to switch off the speakers and route the sound to the headphone. Only if you add say some USB Audio card would you have enough hardware and then you have to worry that the software and setup supports this.
Bob

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So there's no other way ?
Apr 8, 2015 3:51AM PDT

Hearing sound 1 from the speakers and hearing sound 2 from the headphone at the same time
or switch from one device to another without unplug each devices and plug the other or without hearing the same sound in the 2 devices (Speakers, Headphones).
and your DLNA device what is it and how it works, where can I find it or download it ????

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There's other ways for you to look into.
Apr 8, 2015 3:56AM PDT

All laptops I've seen use the audio DAC for the speakers and headphone. Since there is only one DAC this fails to meet your need.

DLNA is on the web and I can't guess if you have a DLNA device or if your monitor is over HDMI which can carry another audio stream (laptops don't use HDMI internally) so you can continue to lose time trying to make your laptop do something it wasn't designed to (single DAC!) Or you can start looking at other audio paths like BlueTooth (BT), HDMI, DLNA and such.
Bob

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(NT) I'll look itto it thanks !!!!!!!
Apr 8, 2015 3:59AM PDT
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PS. I forgot to mention USB Sound Cards.
Apr 8, 2015 4:03AM PDT
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(NT) thanks again I didn't know that small like exist good price!
Apr 8, 2015 7:15AM PDT