First post, by isdeai
Since I used to have a Roland SCB-55 that happily coexisted with my sound card back in those days, I never thought this would be an issue when I bought my "new" SC-55mkII.
Anyway, here's my setup:
Windows 10 Pro x64
Laptop with USB ports
Roland SC-55mkII
Roland UM-ONE USB2MIDI interface
3-piece speaker system that accepts one set of input (currently from computer)
I have set up everything as I have seen on various tutorials prior to buying, but still I missed one very important thing, and that is how to playback both sound devices at the same time.
Now when I play DOS games, MIDI is playing silently (I can see bars running on the SC-55 display) until I plug the speaker jack into SC-55's earphone port, then MIDI plays but other sound effects are silenced out. I either get sound effects or MIDI, but not both.
Some people say you need to hook up to a mixer, but I am no musician, I'm pretty sure there's a simpler solution out there to solve this issue. Maybe a tweak in sound settings? Or a sound pass-thru device that can accept 2 line-ins and output them at the same time? I have seen one of those but that allows only one output at a time through a selector, but that is not what I have in mind. I need both playbacks simultaneously.
Any suggestions?