Is it possible to use 2 seperate Audio interfaces with ASIO ?

Hi ,
   By default as soon as you select an asio device all the other devices become unavailable. Is there anyway around this? If not as I a suspect, what is the best way to get my Audiophile 24/96 and my lexicon Lamda up and running together smoothly in WDM mode.
They both have quite diffent buffer settings. The 24/96 is adjustable under the Delta control panel with 64,128,256 etc.. but the LAmba has no device control panel and its default buffers are at around 441 for 24/96. Any suggestions? I was going to try manually setting the buffers in sonar and see what that does. What about the differences in the internal clocks of each will that cause sync issues?
 
THANX FOR ANY SUGGESTIONS
 
Sonar x1d Win 7 64 Core 2 duo 2.97ghz 4 gb ram Radeon 5450 vga

No and its always best to use one interface.

Back when I used XP and had older hardware I used something called ASIO4ALL. Current release is 2.9. I have not used it in windows 7 or in Sonar x1. I used it back when I had some line 6 interface device. My version was 1.4, People loved this or they hated it. I used it and had no problems. Worked well way back when I was using Sonar 3. It allowed the use of more than one ASIO devices and used WDM for kernel streaming.

No guarantees. People had issues with this. I had no problems.  Now I just use my VS 100 and have not used it since Sonar 5. Check it out but be aware it may or may not be a solution. It was Fun to experiment with it though. I have not tried the new version  

One device at a time is the limitation with ASIO. If you want to experiment give it a try as a last resort. It should work with your hardware, not sure how well it will work with the new version of sonar or windows 7

http://www.asio4all.com/
 

search "asio for all"  . using wdm is usually a better solution, but i have had luck with asio for all in the past.

do your cards have ADAT?

Use one audio interface at a time..... you're asking for trouble to do otherwise. 


ASIO supports one device at a time. You can have your interface running on ASIO and use the computer's sound card running MME or something else to play back MP3 files..... I've done that. 

Dump the cards and buy one audio interface...just my two cents...too much of a headache and you ARE asking for trouble....good luck either way!

pci-e , I'd have bought an RME AIO if they hadn't delayed it 1 year.. perhaps that has what you want..

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdspe_aio.php  Kev, spdif'ing 2 cards is problematic if different brands. as both are timing critical and in some cases / cards cause blue screens due to them going out of sync. OR it'd lose sync. had that with a few cards over the years, where using the audio instead worked better, but not so clean sounding.

If they both have optical connectors you can connect them that way. The first one will simply act as a mic pre/extra input unit and the second will be the main interface doing all the work. There are limitations to this depending on how many channels you can get from the optical connection though. For example... I have a Layla Echo 3G and a focusrite Scarlett 18i6. Both have an optical connector. The echo has 8 inputs the Scarlett's ADAT connection can handle all 8 inputs at 24 bit 44.1khz but if I want a higher sample rate (like 96khz) it only allows four channels. That said even if only ONE of your interfaces has the ADAT/optical connection you could dump the one that doesn't and save money by buying a mic pre unit or a smaller interface as opposed to dumping both and buying something massive.

+1 on the Octa-Captures, they work. Also I believe several of the Echo interfaces can be aggregated.

WDM is the easiest option, though, by far.

BTW I'm not 100% sure of this, but I was talking to a coder from an interface company and he said there's no inherent technical reason why ASIO devices can't be aggregated, but they have unique IDs that the system expects to see...or something like that.

Just check back on this post! WOW thanx for the comments guys. I think we all knew from the start that it was a poor proposition. BUT!!! I recently picked up an m audio VENOm which has identical buffer/pan law settings etc..
Well here's the deal on light projects  with10 Audio 5 Midi and EG. 2 NEXUS 2 Massive (on standard dsp settings) and a cople o Verbs I can get these two working well together at 5.8 - 11.5 ms. This is using Asio4 All or WDM. But ALAS I needed the extra input for my guitar and at 1.5 ms (the only viable input monitoring speed) BOOM NO GO... LAME
 I wish I wasn't so povo need a new interface badly. OH DELTA 10 10 IN 2001 you and me were in nirvana why did you die ?  :)