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Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

Mutant John posted:

I've got a fairly dumb question here, it seems.
I just got a Steinberg UR22, installed, connected, everything's fine and dandy, but... do I have to connect the thing to monitors (which I... don't own) using the two line-outs?
Does anyone know if there is some magical way to route it so it plays through my PC's speakers?
(Edjit: I'm talking about Amplitube/Guitar Rig use specifically. When I choose the UR22 as an input option, I only get the UR22 as an output option with no way to route it through my PC)

No, you can't connect it to your PC speakers and still have them connected to your PC's built in sound card unless your speakers have two inputs. If you want to record and listen to things through your UR22, all the audio will be routed through it, you use it instead of whatever (probably not very good) sound card built into your computer; it's a complete replacement for whatever was built in. You can just unplug your PC speakers and use your UR22 for everything though, including watching videos, playing games, etc., there's not really much reason to still use your on board sound.

The other options are to get a small mixer (dj style two channel crossfader mixer) and plug both your onboard sound card and UR22 into that, then output the mixer to your existing speakers, or you can buy a second set of speakers just for the UR22. In either case, the whole point of having the UR22 is not only having the extra inputs, but also the lower latency audio, a benefit you'd lose by routing your output through the onboard sound card (which usually has pretty cheap DACs and isn't designed for low-latency monitoring).

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