I hope you guys can help with this; im thinking of getting a second hardware synth, but of course its gonna drain most of my money. The thing is my audio card has only 1 input, therefore I will have to buy a mixer. Now im not too knowledgable in this stuff, so would a cheaper mixer (i only need 2 inputs though...) affect the sound or will I have to spend big bucks on a mixer? And also, how does the midi setup work if I have two synths? The audio outputs will be connected in the mixer that will be connected in my soundcard and is the midi out of my soundcard connected in the midi in of my 1rst synth, then midi thru connected to the midi in of my 2nd synth?

use the midi thru port on your first synth to route some data to your second synth.

Let synth #1 respond to all data sent over channel 1, en synth 2 respond to midi data on channel 2 only. That should solve the midi problem.. (Actually your description is totally right so there was no need to type this.)

And you know what I did, I didn't buy a mixer, I bought a 1 stereo jack male to 2 stereo jacks female plug and used it in reverse for a while

No mixer necessary , I don't know if it's a smart thing to do though.

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Well i just dont want the sound to suffer (of course). At worst, I can plug each one when I need to record, beczause I dont play alot with midi, i record right away and play with audio

You could always just buy a cheap behringer patch bay for like $40 and just route which ever synth you want to the inputs on the sound card... also helpful if you go and buy your 3rd synth.