Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-

Posted on 2021-07-03, 23:02

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Okay the new version is up and posted. Let me know if there are any outstanding issues present. I've only tested the Line-in to make sure it was working properly, but cannot test the MPU-401/midi/Wavetable to see if those work.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500

Posted on 2021-07-02, 17:16

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Princeton's proprietary cross-cancellation tech This must be what you were talking about, they are using XTC with head tracking so it's going to sound much better than the static listener setup you get from Aureal and Sensaura. A3D and the other 3D audio products like Sensaura are in the "good …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500

Posted on 2021-07-01, 21:48

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The card you got is called the SuperQuad, it's the OEM varient of the SQ2500 and typically is found using the older AU8830 A2 rev of the chip. All Aureal SQ2500's used the AU8830 B0 chip revision. Aside from some hardware layout changes and part selection they both operate near identically. Yes, it …

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Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-

Posted on 2021-06-27, 20:40

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Thank you everyone, my health is improving and I've been trying to find time to get back to these projects of mine, I have some other projects which aren't PC related which have much higher priority at the moment, but once those are done I can give these 100% of my focus again. I seem to have …

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Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-

Posted on 2021-05-26, 05:22

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I see, if it's the line input you want to adjust then a couple things have to be set in the codec. This gets muted by default in this mixer tool to minimize card playback noise. I can make an update to this tool to setup line in as the default recording input and then expose an adjustment setting …

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Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-

Posted on 2021-05-19, 01:13

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[VIDEO] should be the MPU/Midi/WaveTable volume controls

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Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-

Posted on 2021-04-28, 17:09

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Okay I looked into it, the mixer util contains a batch file which does the AU30MIX reset command. This resets the CODEC and writes a new VDB routing table for rear channel and S/PDIF output. It's probably whats causing the MPU output to fault for some reason. Don't use the reset command, it's not …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-31, 14:53

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You have my permission, I don't think it has any side effects when ran, so it should be safe for public use. Put a txt doc with it and copy paste in my Tool usage advice from the prior post.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-30, 19:17

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Here is a temporary fix for the S/PDIF issue plaguing the drivers. I made this tool back in 2016 so philscomputerlab's could record his A3D videos. (Sorry I haven't posted it till now!) This fix reroutes the VDB table and has the final audio mixdown also go out the S/PDIF channels @48kHZ. Just be …

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-14, 03:56

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Just don't expect Sensaura to work perfect with A3D 2.0. It's much better to run A3D 2.0 on real Vortex cards.

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-11, 16:42

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For the Half-Life video I'm pretty sure I tweaked the s_refgain value to 2 or something higher so that the reflections were more apparent.

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-07, 04:34

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Game->A3D->A3DAPI.dll->iA3D[bind to Vortex driver]->Driver->reports is an A3D accelerator card iA3D->asks driver if card does hardware reflections Yes->A3D enabled No->A3D greyed out Sensaura fails at the A3DAPI's iA3D call since it's drivers don't expose an entire wrapping of that function. So …

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-04, 20:48

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Ohhhhhkay I've figured it out. It can't be done easily on Win98. Descent3 tries to enable A3D 2.0 by testing for hardware reflections caps in the driver through the IA3D interface. Only works on WinXP using that stupid A3D-live dll wrapper, it fakes the IA3D interface the game tries to load thus …

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-02, 05:16

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I'm going from memory here since it's been a while since I last played around with this. Descent 3's launcher wont enable A3D with a Santa Cruz. period. To get it to work I had to place the A3DAPI.dll v3.12 in the descent 3 dir, then launch the game manually with a command line switch to force A3D …

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Re: [PS2] Frequency hidden songs patch file

Posted on 2020-09-26, 22:08

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I'll send PMs to those interested until I solve the ppf patch issues, then I can post it here for everyone.

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Re: [PS2] Frequency hidden songs patch file

Posted on 2020-09-26, 07:59

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How funny, after all this time I thought such things were long forgotten 😉 I don't have the original patch file anymore, so I created a new one. But for whatever reason PPF-O-Matic won't apply it to the ISO I made, it acts like it does, but doesn't. I'll PM you an alternative.

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-22, 19:16

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That was an interesting read: The real reason Creative sued Aureal for false advertising “We're already in a patent case with these guys,” said John Danforth, vice-president and general counsel for Creative Labs, in an interview. “My concern is that during the time spent in the patent case, there's …

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Re: ASP403 - The Neverending Project

Posted on 2020-02-21, 20:11

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Btw, how in the hell has ZanQuance youtube channel been emptied of all the nice A3D recordings? They are just marked as private but still on the account. They were recorded from XP and had those annoying crackles in the WaveTracing, the HRTF sounded odd too. Hardly a good example of A3D, so I …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 19:51

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Right, so that's for the full word mark of "ADLIB PERSONAL COMPUTER MUSIC SYSTEM," including the drawing, which wasn't used. The trademark says "No claim is made to the exclusive right to use "Personal Computer Music System", apart from the mark shown"". The comma is key here, otherwise it would …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 18:39

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It was See here Cloudschatze wrote on 2020-02-21, 18:15: "Ad Lib compatible" is a completely factual statement, falling within fair use. Then wouldn't "SB Compatible" also be a factual statement and fall within fair use for other vendors that were sued over that statement?

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