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RE: Re: kx drivers & sound card recommendations


  • Subject: RE: Re: kx drivers & sound card recommendations
  • From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:33:44 +0100

Ah excellent - that makes using soundcards and individual amps more
useable as a whole house audio system as well :)

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> rb_ziggy
> Sent: 16 July 2006 11:29
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: kx drivers & sound card recommendations
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@...> wrote:
> >
> > OK that sounds interesting.
> >
> > It's got to be possible - the kx routing and DSP seems to be so
> flexible.
> >
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> Well, I've got it working at last!
>
> I got some hints from someone else on the XLobby forum.  It seems I
> didn't need to do anything with the DSP routing (although I'm now sure
> that it's flexibility would allow you to do it through this). In the
> end all I needed to do was set the speaker setup (the 'surrounder') to
> 5.1 with surround 'ON' (I'd had it set to 'off').  Now any stereo
> signal (i.e. my TTS announcements) sent to the 0/1 soundcard get
> replicated to the three 'zones' while I can continue to use 4/5, 6/7
> and 8/9 for the independent audio zones.
>
> I'm not really sure I understand why this setting should work like
> that but I think I'll let that rest!
>
> The more I look at it, the combination of the KXDriver and creative
> soundcards look near ideal for HA / WHA purposes.  A XAp interface to
> the KX would be the muts nuts in terms of integration!
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
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