VegasPro 8.0 & Audio 5.1

Philippe Alsace wrote on 10/25/2007, 1:32 PM

I have a projet in 5.1 and when I listen the center channel I can hear it on my left speaker and the LFE on the right speaker.
When I check my PC, the Realtek gives the right signal to each channel 5.1.
Is there anything to do in some Vegas menu.

Thanks for any help.
Philippe

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ChristoC wrote on 10/26/2007, 5:48 PM

I'm not sure what your drivers Realtek supports, but you should look at Vegas menu Options|Preferences|Audio Device tab.

Audio device type: select ASIO if available for optimum performance, or Widows Classic Wave Driver.
Once either of these are selected, you should get some more choices below for Default front/rear/centre&LFE playback.
Just set these to the correct channel pairs for your card. e.g. Str1-2 for front, Str5-6 for rear, Str3-4 for C/Lfe

Philippe Alsace wrote on 10/27/2007, 2:24 AM

Thanks for your advice.
I could solve my problem.
In fact I have to select Direct Sound Surround Mapper instead of Microsoft Sound Mapper.
Now I have all channels at the right place.

Thanks again !!!

MRe wrote on 11/7/2007, 1:43 AM

I need to bump this up a bit.

I've brand new PC with M-Audio Revolution 5.1 card. I got it because of ASIO drivers.

Now, when mixing with VP8 I noticed that speakers were not following the surround panner. With Direct Sound Sound Mapper everything was OK. I did not trust Vegas Surround Master meters alone, I also checked with M-Audio's output mixer.

I checked and triple checked the setting in Preferences and tried to change the assignments to different channels in M-Audio. No help. Then I checked the Surround Master assignments (the routing button just below the double square in Surr.Master) and lo-and-behold: routings were wrong.

My question is: why do I have the settings in Preferences, when they do not affect the settings in s/m? Can I now trust that the surr.master keeps the settings as they should be or do I need to check those every time I start VP8?

Very confusing...

pwppch wrote on 11/7/2007, 8:03 AM

The Preference settings are the defaults for new projects. They do not affect the current project unless you change to a different device.

Peter