VV and 5.1 Soundcards

RW wrote on 5/28/2003, 5:39 PM
I recently bought a new Philips Sonic Edge 5.1 sound card and cheap-o but decent Cyber Acoustic speakers for use in VV 4.0. When I use Philips setup, all of the speakers are working fine, cept the center channel seems a little low. When I go into Vegas Video and I try to pan audio in 5.1 to the center speaker and the center one only... I can still hear audio in the two front channels. It seems like I can't isolate sound in any one speaker. I'm new at 5.1 and would love to learn it. I've tried as many combinations in VV as I can think of.. but just can't get the end result. Has anyone out there encountered the same problem? Is it my sound card? Is it my setup in Vegas? Any light on the subject would be great. It's dark in here.

RW

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JohanAlthoff wrote on 5/28/2003, 9:32 PM
What you want is discreet center panning, and it's not available in Vegas at the moment.

There's just been a HUGE discussion about this subject. The conclusion is that this is not a bug, it's how it's supposed to work. Sonic Foundry representatives said that they MIGHT consider implementing alternate methods of panning in the future, but probably not prior to Vegas 5.0.
BWO wrote on 5/29/2003, 4:21 AM
One way to pan just to center channel is to use "constant power" pan mode and set center volume fader to 0 dB or higher. You can also mute L/R channels by clicking their icons (blue speakers) on surround panner window.
But you can't do discreet panning from center to left/right.

BWO
RW wrote on 5/29/2003, 8:45 AM
Thanks guys...

All I would really like to do is put the main dialogue in the center channel and center only. I tried using the "constant power" pan mode. I muted all of the speakers cept the center channel. I even dragged the Surround master levels down, leaving only the center speaker up. And it is still playing through the front right and left speakers! It's a philips 5.1 (PSC605) sound card. Like I said it's set up... the tests ran with the software were successful, but I cannot get it to work in Vegas. I have three projects that need to be done and they want 5.1, and I can't deliver it. I appreciate everyone's help.

RW
SonyEPM wrote on 5/29/2003, 9:08 AM
"All I would really like to do is put the main dialogue in the center channel and center only. "

Uncheck all the speaker icons in the surround panner except the center.
RW wrote on 5/29/2003, 9:26 AM
SonicEPM,

"Uncheck all the speaker icons in the surround panner except the center"

I did that. I am in the process of taking out my sound card and returning it to the store. I'll come back and try it with something new.

RW
JohanAlthoff wrote on 5/29/2003, 11:05 AM
M-audio Delta 410 will do the job.
RW wrote on 5/29/2003, 1:04 PM
I took out my Philips 5.1 card and purchased a Maya 7.1. I know I am dealing with cheap cards here and if I had the money I would get a profesisonal grade card. I installed "this" one and fired up Vegas. I believe Maya works with the ASIO drivers. When I went to play the timeline audio a sampling rate error came up. I read a few older postings that stated you should change the properties sampling rate. I changed the project settings to 48 and when you click play on the timeline it plays, meters pumping and everything but there is no sound coming out at all.

Any help out there?

Thanks all
RW
RW wrote on 5/29/2003, 4:41 PM
Took the Maya back.. bought an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Has the same problems as my Philips 5.1 card. And hey, it only cost $60 more!! I CAN NOY isolate a sound in any one channel!!!

I'm losing my mind.

RW
JohanAlthoff wrote on 5/30/2003, 7:32 AM
I don't think Revolution 7.1 has that capability. You should have bought a M-audio Delta 410.