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Why SPDIF over Analog? What SPDIF cable/cord would i need? What about analog? Is the "Digital Out" (yellow) port on both cards SPDIF?
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Digital is inherantly 'noise free' - in that, transmitting a SPDIF signal can't pick up noise like analog can - but yes, you can use the analog input/output - SPDIF is just more convenient.
SPDIF uses a single patch cable, but it supposed to be video grade (typically a RCA composit video cable), - tho some people report success with good quality audio patch cables - where a cheap video one should work.
I have my live connected to my A2 with a CD SPDIF cable -and it just plugs in. no soldering - its all inside the case and hidden... your choice, my way took some care that I connected to the correct pins on the AD_EXT header of my Live card - but on the A2 - its using the CD SPDIF input... it was quite easy once I knew what pins where what on the Live AD_EXT header.
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If that's the case, you're right. But, Kx drivers still have problems with soundfonts (i.e. 32 mb limit) Although, i'm not sure if that's still an issue with Audigy 2 cards....
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It is my understanding that CL cards suffer from the same problem - while you can load 100MB of Sf2 - only 32MB of them can be used at any single time, as they are 'dynamically loaded' - and I thought CL drivers had this as well, perhaps I am wrong on that??
Its been ages since I used CL drivers...
A possible work around if you are using them in Cubase or some other DAW is to use a VST SF2 player like SFz..??
Note - if you run 1 stereo pair from one card to another - and apply effects to that - it will apply it to the entire mix - unlike using the MIDI sends - where you apply any of the 4 effects to a single MIDI channel if you like. It allows 4 additional 'discrete' MIDI send effects - but once mixed and sent to the other card - independence is lost and effects will be applied to what ever is on that output from the other card.