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Old Jul 24, 2008, 12:05 AM   #1
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Poll!!! kX Router: do we need it? (24-bit stuff for audigy/audigy2)

hi guys,

a small poll:

do you need kX Router?
while it provides enhanced functionality, most recent changes to the driver (24 and 32-bit playback for all 10k2/audigy/audigy2 devices) require it to be completely removed from the system

1. Do you need kX Router?
2. Do you re-assign default buses?
3. Do you change amounts in kX Router?
4. Is it OK to allow only -one- bus for each source to be assignable? (instead of 4..8 - send a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h)
5. Do you use kX Router for modifying effect sends?
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current kX version allows to change FX amounts in two ways: by tweaking FXMix2 and by changing 'send amount'
FXMix2 is more flexible, so, no functionality is lost if kX Router is removed

MIDI users: default MIDI routings for Reverb and Chorus will still be available

FXBuses will be kept selectable, however, at the moment you assign, say, 'ASIO 0' to send 0, f, c, d. In the next version, you will only be able to change '0' ('send a').
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10k2 users:
Also, is it OK to limit number of FXBuses to 32 (instead of 64: fxbus + fxbus2) - since higher values are used by 24-bit audio transfers internally and should not be used?

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Old Jul 24, 2008, 12:41 AM   #2
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Usually, in my case:

1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Perfectly fine.
5. No

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Also, is it OK to limit number of FXBuses to 32 (instead of 64: fxbus + fxbus2) - since higher values are used by 24-bit audio transfers internally and should not be used?
Fine with me.

In all the setups I use, I make heavy use of the dsp mixer plugins instead, so it makes no difference to me, however, I think it will be good to still be able to change to which bus a source goes to, just in case...

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Old Jul 24, 2008, 02:11 AM   #3
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2) I occasionally use kX Router to map different MIDI channels to different FxBusses.

3) Generally, I set the Synth FX Send levels (C and D) to full (and adjust as necessary in the DSP), and set all the other Fx Send levels (C and D for Wave, ASIO, etc) to zero.

4) Not sure, how would that effect panning with MIDI, etc? (i.e. re-assigning Send A but not Send B does not seem to make much sense with MIDI).

5) Occasionally.

1) I guess, but from the above, I pretty much only use kX Router for MIDI related stuff, the rest I really do not need.

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Old Jul 24, 2008, 02:17 AM   #4
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i never use the kx router...
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Old Jul 24, 2008, 06:41 AM   #5
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do you need kX Router?
while it provides enhanced functionality, most recent changes to the driver (24 and 32-bit playback for all 10k2/audigy/audigy2 devices) require it to be completely removed from the system
I use kX Router to re-assign FXBus' for all kX Synth Sends.
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10k2 users:
Also, is it OK to limit number of FXBuses to 32 (instead of 64: fxbus + fxbus2) - since higher values are used by 24-bit audio transfers internally and should not be used?
I am a little confused - I see ASIO uses Send B now (FXBus 32-47) - If 1 FXBus can transfer 16Bit audio streams (16 ASIO x2 = 32 FXBus lines - correct?) - doesn't that still leave FXBuss 48-63 open for our use? (even for 32 bit ASIO) If yes - please leave them accessible for at least the 2 synths.

I desire to assign All Synth Sends to any of the 16-32 & 48-63 FXBus. Or even better....

If you were to force ASIO to use FXBus 31-63 (remove ASIO assignments from kX router) but keep the Synths assignable with FXBus 0-31.

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FXBuses will be kept selectable, however, at the moment you assign, say, 'ASIO 0' to send 0, f, c, d. In the next version, you will only be able to change '0' ('send a').
For anything but Synths is ok - I only re-assign synths sends.
Yeah, removing ASIO Sends C thu H would make kX router more intuitive - the additional sends (C-H) are useless with out kX Automatons (tho, kX automation 'ASIO X Send X Amount' on FXBus would make them *very* useful imho).


I would like to see: (my wish list)
1) Assignable use of FXBus 0-31 for any of the Synths Sends A-H
2) Force ASIO use FXB32-63 for 16/24/32 ASIO. And Remove FXBus2 plugin.
3) Remove assignments for Wave/AC3/D3D - slider 'amount' too .
4) Remove the 'Amount' sliders for Synths Sends C-H, and map MIDI CC91/93 & 16-17 to be direct 'amount' values for Sends C-H respectively for Synths - and just assign FXBus' for the synths and channels.

to me, would greatly simplify things from a users point of view, while keeping much of the flexibility.
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Old Jul 24, 2008, 07:32 AM   #6
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hi guys,
1. Do you need kX Router?
In practice, no, it can be done with effects too.

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2. Do you re-assign default buses?
Yes.

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3. Do you change amounts in kX Router?
Yes, but that can be done by a stdvol effect too.

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4. Is it OK to allow only -one- bus for each source to be assignable? (instead of 4..8 - send a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h)
Yes, chaining a stdvol/mx after that works just as well.

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5. Do you use kX Router for modifying effect sends?
In theory I could have (used to), but I use an mx6 for that now, so no.

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current kX version allows to change FX amounts in two ways: by tweaking FXMix2 and by changing 'send amount'
FXMix2 is more flexible, so, no functionality is lost if kX Router is removed
I tend to favor MX6 and MX8 (I like peakmeters ;-))

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MIDI users: default MIDI routings for Reverb and Chorus will still be available
Rarely use MIDI for sound anymore, but use automation allot (not related, I know).

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FXBuses will be kept selectable, however, at the moment you assign, say, 'ASIO 0' to send 0, f, c, d. In the next version, you will only be able to change '0' ('send a').
This also goes for wave/MIDI/3d positional I assume? I have remapped all the 3d stuff + MIDI + some asio channels.

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10k2 users:
Also, is it OK to limit number of FXBuses to 32 (instead of 64: fxbus + fxbus2) - since higher values are used by 24-bit audio transfers internally and should not be used?
Well, this is cutting it short a bit (by remapping ASIO and 3d, I use more then 32), but if that is the price to pay... then I guess the benefits outweigh the costs of overlapping some stuff by a huge amount. (Yay! 24bit! now if only I could change my dacs... ;-)
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so far i only needed it for routing midi.
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Old Jul 24, 2008, 05:55 PM   #8
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i have never used kx router. DSP roulezz
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1. Do you need kX Router?
I don't think so

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2. Do you re-assign default buses?
No
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3. Do you change amounts in kX Router?
No

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4. Is it OK to allow only -one- bus for each source to be assignable? (instead of 4..8 - send a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h)
OK by me

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5. Do you use kX Router for modifying effect sends?
No
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Re: Poll!!! kX Router: do we need it? (24-bit stuff for audigy/audigy2)

I've never used KX Router. I have used KX DSP quite extensively, and it seems some of the functionality overlaps?
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Re: Poll!!! kX Router: do we need it? (24-bit stuff for audigy/audigy2)

I've never used KX router.
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Old Sep 16, 2009, 06:28 PM   #12
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Re: Poll!!! kX Router: do we need it? (24-bit stuff for audigy/audigy2)

This is an old thread, the changes to kX Router have already been implemented in newer versions of kX.

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