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Hi,
I have a set of 5.1 surround speakers connected to my SB Audigy 2, I run WinXP, and I can’t manage to find out a way to use more than 2 speakers via the Breakaway Pipeline. When I change from 2 to 5.1 speakers in the pipeline’s audio settings (via Windows audio control panel), nothing changes at all.
Does someone have a clue ?Very impressive software except for that little annoyance, keep up the good work !
Howdy!
I’m afraid I have bad news – the current version actually only supports Stereo. There’s no way to use it with more than 2 channels.
The Breakaway core algorithm itself supports up to 7.1, so when I come up with a user friendly way to support this, I’ll implement it. 🙂
///Leif
i got a usb soundblaster with a fiber optic cable run to a 5.1 receiver,and it has been working fine in surround sound mode.
i think he’s talking about 5.1 that plugs into the actual soundcard, not using a receiver. there is nothing that could stop you from using the simulated surround of dolby pro logic even if it was a mono signal. Prologic is 100% simulated surround, and is not accurate in terms of knowing where a gunshot is coming from.
Actually though, the soundcard might be capable of AC3/DTS "pass-through" which would be sending up to 9.2 surround to be decoded by the external decoder (in this case, in the receiver) and that would bypass Breakaway since the soundcard isn’t even decoding it itself.
As to if pass-through would actually work with Breakaway selected as the default soundcard, I couldn’t say for sure (maybe Leif can) and imo it would also depend on the software & hardware itself.
I think what’s happening in this case, is the playback software is automatically down-mixing from whatever discreet surround mix there is, into a Pro-Logic II surround, and sending that as 2-channels through Breakaway, and then on out of the soundcard, etc. Depending on how you look at it, and the content you’re talking about, the final result could end up sounding WAY better and WAY more spatially defined, than if the original un-processed mix was sent in (for instance) 5.1 to be decoded. This is more & more true the cheaper the reproduction system is.
only with 7.1 support i would buy it 8( hope it took not too long.
the audio processing engine itself already supports it for years now. it’s just a matter of Leif getting enough time to finish an end-user version of it, and also the timing of releasing it has to match what-ever the Leif’s plans are. 8) i could be wrong, but technically the engine should only be limited by CPU power, and actual soundcard I/O (if needed)
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