Audio interfaces

Yes, if you have ASIO drivers, you can do something like aggregate sound cards I think. Can’t help you with the specifics as I haven’t done this in forever.

Since the UM2 is a 2+2 card (two inputs for mics/instruments and two outputs = ONE stereo!), it can never be used in a normal DJ manner, which calls for at least 4-channel = TWO stereo output.

While the UM2 has a headphone connection, that is used to monitor your incoming/recording sound or it will parallel the output for track playback from a daw. In most cases this headphone channel can not be addressed directly from DJ software.

With the price of a good DJ soundcard being relatively high, I’d always advise someone that doesn’t have a controller yet (or one without a soundcard) to get a controller with a soundcard and be done with it. Pricewise it shouldn’t be too much of a difference. Clearly we are not talking about 2+2 Behringer or other low end brand 55 euro sound cards here 🙂

Yeah … ASIO4All is what I ment. And it CAN do the trick. I have had some succes with it in the past combining 8+8 channel pro sound cards with cards for specific purposes.

As soon as the driver presents multiple outputs as belonging to a single device to the DJ Software, any software should let you pick what goes where. This will be either master/cue signal for use with internal mixing or deck to channel for external mixing.

Sounds similar to what I managed to get working when I tried to use ASIO4ALL with Ableton..

Try pressing buttons to turn outputs on and off in the ASIO4ALL settings until it worked. My issue was that I was trying to get it working with 2 external + 1 internal soundcard with a total of 10 channels of output and 10 input channels between them.. It was unbelievably complicated..

I never managed it and I am apparently quite good at things like this – good luck 🙂

See my earlier reply.