Echo Gina, Vegas and 5.1 surround.

golli wrote on 5/2/2004, 5:32 PM
This audio card has 8channel output. So the question is, can those outputs be calibrated to an 5.1 or even 7.1, monitoring??

One other thing, does it not bother anyone that all drivers for Echo cards, are still in Beta?? Those drivers have a good rep, but still their creators are not confident enough to pull them out of beta.

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drbam wrote on 5/2/2004, 9:42 PM
>>One other thing, does it not bother anyone that all drivers for Echo cards, are still in Beta?? Those drivers have a good rep, but still their creators are not confident enough to pull them out of beta. <<

What's the source of your information? 6.08 has been out for almost a year and there's nothing in the read me file that indicates it is a beta driver. At any rate, the drivers work perfectly.

There is no specific "calibrating" for 5.1 or 7.1 monitoring in the Echo software console. This would have to accomplished elsewhere.

drbam
planders wrote on 5/2/2004, 9:43 PM
Not sure where you're seeing it indicated that all Echo drivers are in beta form. Only the Me/2000/XP driver for discontinued products is listed as a beta driver, and that's fair enough. All others are finalized and rock-solid.

I haven't used the Gina, but I'm pretty sure it works like my Layla: you simply "link" three or four pairs of outputs into a single device within the driver options, and Windows will see it as a 5.1 or 7.1 device. This is covered in either the manual or the readme included with the driver download.
Rednroll wrote on 5/3/2004, 5:40 AM
I've seen the Echo drivers have a beta tag on them for quite a long time after an updated driver release. Does it bother me? No, not really, I have not had one cause me to crash yet. Maybe it's just their way of saying this thing hasn't been fully tested or we know of a bug or two and we're working on fixing it, but until then here's a driver that will work for 95% of the users. What's the word "beta" besides a name tag anymore? All software today gets released as a final version, but then goes through updates after it gets released after the masses have had a chance to throw it at a million different h/w configs and another million ways of workflow.
cosmo wrote on 5/4/2004, 8:28 AM
You can certainly route 5.1 audio to your outputs. If you have enough analog outs than you can map them in Vegas. File > Properties first to set the project's audio properties to 5.1 instead of the default Stereo. Next, Options > Preferences > Audio Device to route your channels to your card. Of course you have to have a monitoring system with straight analog inputs for each speaker...Vegas doesn't send out any encoded signals whilest monitoring. I don't think Vegas can handle 7.1 at the moment though.
Erk wrote on 5/9/2004, 7:39 PM
I believe there's some documentation on working with the Gina and surround sound in the readme for their drivers.

Greg