Re: kx drivers & sound card recommendations

["rb_ziggy" <richard.boreham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@...> wrote:
>
> No not definite - I have 5 stereo pairs showing up in the
windows/application control panels. 3 definitely work individually as
I'v just checked them. One of the other outputs seems to map on top of
the other though - so maybe there is a limit of 3?
>

Sorry to be the sceptic but I'm afraid I'm not convinced ;-) I've
looked around at the KX forums and the documentation and I think there
are a few points that indicate that only 5.1 is supported at present:

- I 'believe' that the 0/1 output is actually the '5.1 output'.  Feed
stereo into it and it comes out of the front l/r channels (same as the
4/5 output).  I've done this myself.  The documentation indicates that
this 0/1 channel has more complex processing applied and can
mix/surround to the rear channels using this output.  (I put 5.1 in '
' here as I'm notsure whether a 5.1 feed to 0/1 gets you 5.1 out or
whether its the synthetic processing of the surrounder function that
gives you a sort of pro-logic like surround feature on the other
speakers. I haven't tried and don't intend to!)

- On my driver (the 3537 version released in Feb 04 and the one on the
download section) I can only get 5.1 in the speaker setup - there is
no 6.1 / 7.1 option.

- On the forums there is an announcement by the author of a beta 3538
release (which you can download from there). The change log says that
this version 'introduces 6.1 / 7/1' support.

- I haven't been able to find anyone claiming to actually have 4
stereo working on their setup.  All the discussions seem to be
theoretical speculation.

So... to continue the speculation... I think it may need someone to
try out the 3538 driver with a 'special' 7.1 cable.  I'm afraid it's
not going to be me though as I don't need that 4th zone (being happy
with 2 x 3 zones).

Happy to be proved wrong though.

However... What I'm still trying to work out is how to output to all 3
stereo channels simultaneously. I use TTS and at the moment it only
announces in the kitchen (i.e. on the 4/5 KX 'soundcard').  I'd really
like it to announce using all 3 (i.e. 4/5 + 6/7 + 8/9).  I'd hoped
that using 0/1 would multiplex to all 3 stereo channels but, as noted
above, it just comes out of the front l/r (i.e 4/5).  Any bright ideas
on this one?

Regards

Richard