Digital I/O for Live/Audigy Drives

gtardirt · Aug 1, 2008, 10:06 AM

For an Audigy 2 zs with an Audigy Drive, do you get optical and coaxial I/O simultaneously, or do you choose between the two somehow? If the former, which inputs on the prolog do they correspond to, and which menu items in the profx [src] plugin do they correspond to?

I'd also like to know the same for an SB Live with a Live Drive.

Maddogg6 · Aug 1, 2008, 05:03 PM

No they are parallel - you use either one, and its called on my SB0350 with Audigy Drive..
COAX/OPTICAL SPDIF IN in Profx and
COAX/OPTICAL IN 6/7 in prolog

I presume one will take precedence because I doubt they will 'mix' both inputs.
I dunno about Lives for certain - but looks like they have same naming conventions on Prolog and ProFx.

gtardirt · Aug 2, 2008, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Maddogg6

I dunno about Lives for certain - but looks like they have same naming conventions on Prolog and ProFx.

I just found this regarding an Audigy (1) Drive and =possibly= regarding all AUD_EXT Drives...

"...headphones can be treated as yet another individually-addressable stereo out pair, and then you have the SPDIF stereo ins and out, and optical stereo in and out, which are also independent (unless you choose to wire them together with kX..."

...in this post...

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/general-...tml#post144634

It would be great if someone had both a coaxial and an optical device connected to a Live or Audigy (1) Drive to see if they can be run and controlled independently and simultaneously with those models. I'd test it myself, but I don't have any optical devices. Maybe someone has already tested all this?

Russ · Aug 2, 2008, 07:51 PM

I doubt the above is accurate (but of course, I could be wrong). It is more likely that one takes precedence (as Maddogg6 stated) over the other (i.e. if both are connected then only the optical input would be active [COLOR=Gray](this is just a guess based on how some other Creative addon's work (i.e. Digital I/O Module))[/COLOR]).

Since kX uses a single slider, labeled "Coaxial/Optical...", and not two different sliders (and both inputs use the same KX_IN registers [COLOR=Gray](0x6/0x7 (look at prolog source in DSP))[/COLOR], and thus likely the same pins of the AUD_EXT header), I do not see how they could be separated and controlled independently.

Aug 1, 2008, 10:06 AM	#1
gtardirt HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 44 Rep Power: 0	Digital I/O for Live/Audigy Drives For an Audigy 2 zs with an Audigy Drive, do you get optical and coaxial I/O simultaneously, or do you choose between the two somehow? If the former, which inputs on the prolog do they correspond to, and which menu items in the profx [src] plugin do they correspond to? I'd also like to know the same for an SB Live with a Live Drive.

Aug 2, 2008, 07:51 PM	#4
Russ HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,563 Rep Power: 62	I doubt the above is accurate (but of course, I could be wrong). It is more likely that one takes precedence (as Maddogg6 stated) over the other (i.e. if both are connected then only the optical input would be active [COLOR=Gray](this is just a guess based on how some other Creative addon's work (i.e. Digital I/O Module))[/COLOR]). Since kX uses a single slider, labeled "Coaxial/Optical...", and not two different sliders (and both inputs use the same KX_IN registers [COLOR=Gray](0x6/0x7 (look at prolog source in DSP))[/COLOR], and thus likely the same pins of the AUD_EXT header), I do not see how they could be separated and controlled independently. Last edited by Russ; Aug 2, 2008 at 08:14 PM.

Aug 1, 2008, 05:03 PM	#2
Maddogg6 Tail Razer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bernyurass, AZ - USA Posts: 4,027 Rep Power: 0	No they are parallel - you use either one, and its called on my SB0350 with Audigy Drive.. COAX/OPTICAL SPDIF IN in Profx and COAX/OPTICAL IN 6/7 in prolog I presume one will take precedence because I doubt they will 'mix' both inputs. I dunno about Lives for certain - but looks like they have same naming conventions on Prolog and ProFx.