Do I need to disable my computers sound card to use the SignaLink USB?
NO – Absolutely not! One of the greatest benefits of using the SignaLink USB, is that it completely frees up your computer’s sound card so that it can be used as it was intended. With the SignaLink USB properly installed, your computer will play it’s music, beeps and other sounds through your existing sound card and speakers, and only your communications program (Digipan, Mix-W, etc.) will “talk” to the SignaLink. This is simply not possible with other interfaces that require a connection to your existing sound card. NOTE: One of our competitors is claiming that the great majority of Windows sound card programs do not let you directly select the sound card within the program, and this is simply NOT TRUE. A quick check of virtually any modern Windows, MAC or Linux sound card program will clearly show that you can select which sound card you want to use within the program itself. Some examples of this are Digipan, Hamscope, Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD), Mix-W, MMSSTV, MMTTY, MT63, EchoLink, AG
