Sound Design in Vista

It SUCKS basically.

I have this problem. I need two sound cards because one is used for
send and receive on my Amateur Radio station for digital modes. The
other is used for Windows default sound. They MUST be separated or
Windows sounds would be transmitted, not cool and not legal.

I must use the default card for the program that makes announcements
of stations heard form spots on the Internet. That is because that
program does not have any way to configure to use a different card.

Now the problem. The other programs can be told which card to use BUT
you can only tell them the input side. In XP that meant that the
output would use the same card because the input and output device ID
was always the same. IN Vista it is not , it can be anything and it I
assigned by Vista, not the user. That means that programs must have
the ability to specify two devices if they need both input and output.
They have not caught up to this yet and it will be some time before
they do.

The question is there any way to force the Input and Output device
(Wav in and Wav out) to be the same device ID or is there any program
that has been written to intercept the calls and make sound look like
it did in XP.

Compatibility mode does NOT fix this. SHAME on Microsoft. They have
broken a LOT of code. It is not nice not to have backward
compatibility, especially when there is no security reason for this!

Now I know many people have no problem. If you have only ONE sound
card or if you use only the default then all works because the default
and ONLY the default is guaranteed to have the same device id for in
and out.


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