Technical Question

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I owned a SB Live! 5.1 (don't laugh, it do the job i want to do.)

In Sonar 2.0 , if I take a look in the output of virtual A Bus it seems to have 3 choices :

Audio SbLive! C000 1/2
Audio SbLive! C000 3/4
Audio SbLive! C000 5/6

When i choose different one, i get a different sounding ....

Do you know why i get three choices ?
I can't figure out.

Another strange thing:

If i configure Sonar to have 2 virtual busses (A and B) and assigned Bus A to C000 1/2, Bus B to C000 3/4 and send 2 different tracks to each of them i get latency (echo) and distortion.


Maybe you can help me in resolving this.

Thank you

Musart
 
You get three outputs because the SBLive has actually three outputs: 1 stereo main, 1 stereo rear and 1 mono output for boomboxes and such. Better use one of the outputs (preferably the first one), and switch the others off.

And you should set output of the individual track to the same channel as the aux bus that is attached....
 
I suspected it was related to surround system.

Thank you for the prompt answer.

Anyway, I've always used the main output (ie: 1/2) but I was curious about the other ones.


Musart
 
About the Aux buses, I hope you attach a DX effect with wet signal only?
 
If you mean to use the Aux send and return on the track I want an Aux effect which the dry signal is off on this effect ?

Yes i do so. Only use the wet signal returning to the tracks.
 
Have you checked the outputs of the tracks and buses?
 
Yes they are the same

I use the same output "ie 1/2" for tracks, virtual bus and aux buses

So i won't use different output for different tracks "ie 1/2 and 3/4 or so" i don't need to do that anyway. It was just a test i made.
 
Hello - first post in this form - relatively new Sonar 2 XL user.

Anyway... I am assuming that these are physical outputs - so how are you monitoring them?

Also I suspect that this card will allow you to put fancy processing on these outputs to make various games sound more exciting. Have you enabled any of these settings?
 
shuggy said:
Hello - first post in this form - relatively new Sonar 2 XL user.

Anyway... I am assuming that these are physical outputs - so how are you monitoring them?

Also I suspect that this card will allow you to put fancy processing on these outputs to make various games sound more exciting. Have you enabled any of these settings?
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Welcome Shuggy

Everything is disabled. Anyway this latency / distortion occured only when i tested using two different output buses (ie: 1/2 on bus A and 3/4 on Bus B). So i won't use this configuration (no needs).
 
3/4 is a mono-combination of 1/2 and 5/6, don't ever use it. You shouldn't have problems with using 1/2 on, say, VMain A and 5/6 on VMain B. :)
 
Gee, i learned things today !!!

Thank you all for helping

I'll do some test and feedback to you guys.
 
Quoted by myself... from ACKUS tips & Tricks thread started by moskus...

Surround Sound with Sound Blaster Live 5.1 or Audigy card using Sonar and a 5 or 7 speaker system

Here is how you "activate" this cool and undocumented feature.

1. Setup 3 Virtual Main Busses in Cakewalk. I will call them VMB-A, VMB-B
and VMB-C. You do this by Clicking Options -> Audio. Then setting Number of Virtual Mains to 3. If it is already 3 you don't have to do anything. If it is more than 3 you don't have to do anything. If it is less than 3 you will need to restart Cakewalk after the change.

2. Create 5 audio tracks. Call them left front, right front, left rear,
right rear, center.

3. Record measure 1 the words "Left Front" on track 1, measure two record
"Right Front" for track 2 and so on.

4. Send the output of tracks 1 and 2 (N Front) to VMB-A. Send the output of tracks 3 & 4 (N Rear) to VMB-C. Send the output of track 5 to VMB-B

5. Play back your project.

If you want to use this in a real project I suggest you send your Front channels to AUX 1, rear channels to AUX 2 and center to AUX 3. Then send the output of all the AUX busses to only one VM. Then you can do volume and pan editing on the AUX bus and you won't need to do it for as many tracks.

;)
 
People should really read the "ACKUS: tips and tricks"-thread! :D





No, seriously.... :p
 
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