is a 5.1 sound card required for surround mixing

Garret008 wrote on 2/22/2003, 5:48 PM

Before I upgrade to the Vegas+DVD package, I would like to know if a 5.1 surround card is required to mix a surround audio program-are there any workarounds with a Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value card with the FPS2000 digital quadrophonic speaker system?

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SonyDennis wrote on 2/26/2003, 1:27 PM

You might have some luck with these 3rd party ASIO drivers for that card:

http://kxproject.spb.ru/index.php?skip=1

That should expose the quad outputs of that card. So, technically, you'll be doing 4.0 mixing and not 5.1, because you have no center channel or LFE output. The LFE is no great loss, you should never use that for mixing music, just movies. Center might be a problem, depending on your philosophy of center channel and music.

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snicholshms wrote on 2/26/2003, 11:57 PM

SonicDennis:

Has Creative got ASIO drivers for the Audigy Platinum2 card? If so, where are they?

Thanks

Finatic13 wrote on 2/27/2003, 2:08 AM

the ASIO drivers for the creative Audigy cards are on the cd that comes with the card, just install as normal then you have them on.
regards
Simon
p.s. you can always download the latest drivers from creatives website aswell