[PD] six sound outputs with sound blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

[Charles Henry]

Sorry--I have no good news for you... and perhaps this knowledge only
adds to your injury.  The ASIC in your sound card has many, many times
the potential that it actually gets used for--up to 10,000 MIPS on a
quad-core DSP and up to 128 channels.

http://www.creative.com/oem/products/chips/CA20K2.asp

So, should it surprise you that you can't use 6 separate channels with
your sound card now that you know what a colossal waste of hardware it
is to put the ca20k2 chip in a 5.1 sound card?

Chuck
(edited for public consumption....mmmm....public)

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:10 PM, altern <altern2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
>
> I am trying to get this sound blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 sound card to
> work on windows with 6 outputs
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Creative+Soundblaster+X-Fi+Surround+5.1&hl=eu&client=ubuntu&hs=Mvz&channel=fs&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=NxxVT_XdNYXF0QXTwvnXCw&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=699
>
> The idea is to get a
>
> adc~ 1 2 3 4 5 6
>
> and route different sounds to each of the outputs that connects to
> self powered mono speakers.
>
> But I am going nuts. The card only works with 2 outputs under ASIO.
> And with the default configuration if I set 6 outputs it does some
> kind of 5.1 mixing. I have tried to disable all 5.1 stuff under
> control panel but no way...
>
> anyone? thanks
>
> enrike
>
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