Need two separate outputs on PC

[Brian Turner]

I play electronic drums. I am using Sonar with Steven Slate drums VST. I play along to songs on YouTube or other sources. I need to separate the sound from each program to an input on a mixer console so I can adjust the volume independently. Can I do this using two sound cards, one sending output from Sonar and one sending sound from YouTube on the same PC with Windows 11? Then, I could wire to a mixer channel from each sound card.

[reginaldStjohn]

Depends on the sound card (Audio Interface) that is used and the driver mode. If you have a dedicated audio interface many of them come with multiple outputs.

However, If you are playing from two different sound cards then I suppose that would work but you would have to set one as the default Windows Audio device and then have Cakewalk use the other.

[Bass Guitar]

It really depends on the capabilities of your audio interface or system.

My interface has loopback so I can hear anything my computer is playing. 

 

Edited November 19 by Bass Guitar

[57Gregy]

I'm pretty sure you can do it with 1 sound card.
The latency may be horrendous.

[Brian Turner]

I solved this. I bought a Sabrent USB plug in sound card. Cakewalk recognized both cards, so Cakewalk is using the USB sound card and the computer is using the built-in Realtek driver. Sound cards for PCs seem to be dinosaurs. My computer doesn’t even have any extra slots for any cards. I have the two outputs going to a mixer so I can adjust the volumes individually including headphones. Just what I needed. Thanks for everyone’s input. 

[Bass Guitar]

A concern is that you mentioned that you were using digital drums and SSD 5 VST. 
There might be enough latency to throw you off. 
You must be using WASAPI shared mode I would assume.