Tutoring needed in setting-up 'multiple' (actually 2) cards

Russ · Nov 11, 2011, 10:41 PM

Just to confirm, you are getting sound now, right? (e.g. with wave playback)

Do you see the signal from the Wave Generator on both peak meters in MX6 (channel and main)?
In MX6, do you have both the M and E buttons enabled for those channels and the volumes set to an audible level (channel and main)?

Have you tested DirectSound using any other methods?
e.g. DxDiag's "Test DirectSound" option for each kX Wave Device (test using matching FxBus channels (e.g. Wave 0/1 = Fxbus 0/1, etc))

kosketus · Nov 12, 2011, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Russ

Just to confirm, you are getting sound now, right? (e.g. with wave playback)

Yes

Quote:

Do you see the signal from the Wave Generator on both peak meters in MX6 (channel and main)?
In MX6, do you have both the M and E buttons enabled for those channels and the volumes set to an audible level (channel and main)?

Yes to all.

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Have you tested DirectSound using any other methods?
e.g. DxDiag's "Test DirectSound" option for each kX Wave Device (test using matching FxBus channels (e.g. Wave 0/1 = Fxbus 0/1, etc))

No I hadn't. But I have now, and the screenshot shows the error message I got (I saw the same one when I was struggling with uninstalling/reinstalling DirectX before I restored my system to its earlier state, as reported above. Googling then produced little more as a remedy than to reinstall DirecX which didn't help. However, perhaps it would now.)

Tests for each of the FxBus channels in turn all fail - not surprisingly in view of the error message.

Russ · Nov 12, 2011, 07:02 PM

OK, that probably explains why you are not getting audio from the speaker test, but I cannot think of any reason why you would not get audio from the Wave Generator 3 plugin.

Russ · Nov 12, 2011, 07:30 PM

BTW: Newer versions of kX (beyond 3545b) do not add much for XP users (updates are mostly related to Vista/7 and 64 bit, etc). It seems some people in the other thread had some luck getting rid of the DirectSound problems they were experiencing by using older versions of kX, so again, you might consider uninstalling kX version 3550 and installing version 3545b.

kosketus · Nov 13, 2011, 11:19 AM

Russ,

The only reason I haven't reverted to ver. 3545 is because one is told that one must use with it *only* the corresponding version of FXPro. Having tried that I much prefer the version that goes with kX ver. 3550.

I suppose there's no way around this drawback?

Russ · Nov 13, 2011, 08:46 PM

You mean ProFx?
AFAIK, there is no difference between ProFx v3.10 and v3.11 (AFAIK the only difference is related to which version of kX they were compiled for).

kosketus · Nov 14, 2011, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Russ

You mean ProFx?
AFAIK, there is no difference between ProFx v3.10 and v3.11 (AFAIK the only difference is related to which version of kX they were compiled for).

Russ

That's not been my experience; whenever I've loaded v3.10 it's had a much more limited selection of plugins, and their format has differed pretty radically.

No matter anyway. I've now tracked down and am using kX 3548 - and ProFX v311 is compatible with that so all is well. Furthermore I get no error-message when I start DXDiag and its tests work in all 5 'Sound' tabs. kX speaker test also now works and an audible signal is now generated by Wave Generator 3.

So it seems that at last everything is back to normal operation.

Many thanks for all your help.

Nov 11, 2011, 10:41 PM	#31
Russ HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,563 Rep Power: 62	Re: Tutoring needed in setting-up 'multiple' (actually 2) cards Just to confirm, you are getting sound now, right? (e.g. with wave playback) Do you see the signal from the Wave Generator on both peak meters in MX6 (channel and main)? In MX6, do you have both the M and E buttons enabled for those channels and the volumes set to an audible level (channel and main)? Have you tested DirectSound using any other methods? e.g. DxDiag's "Test DirectSound" option for each kX Wave Device (test using matching FxBus channels (e.g. Wave 0/1 = Fxbus 0/1, etc))

Nov 12, 2011, 07:02 PM	#33
Russ HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,563 Rep Power: 62	Re: Tutoring needed in setting-up 'multiple' (actually 2) cards OK, that probably explains why you are not getting audio from the speaker test, but I cannot think of any reason why you would not get audio from the Wave Generator 3 plugin.

Nov 12, 2011, 07:30 PM	#34
Russ HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,563 Rep Power: 62	Re: Tutoring needed in setting-up 'multiple' (actually 2) cards BTW: Newer versions of kX (beyond 3545b) do not add much for XP users (updates are mostly related to Vista/7 and 64 bit, etc). It seems some people in the other thread had some luck getting rid of the DirectSound problems they were experiencing by using older versions of kX, so again, you might consider uninstalling kX version 3550 and installing version 3545b.

Nov 13, 2011, 11:19 AM	Thread Starter #35
kosketus HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Åland Islands Posts: 55 Rep Power: 0	Re: Tutoring needed in setting-up 'multiple' (actually 2) cards Russ, The only reason I haven't reverted to ver. 3545 is because one is told that one must use with it only the corresponding version of FXPro. Having tried that I much prefer the version that goes with kX ver. 3550. I suppose there's no way around this drawback?

Nov 13, 2011, 08:46 PM	#36
Russ HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,563 Rep Power: 62	Re: Tutoring needed in setting-up 'multiple' (actually 2) cards You mean ProFx? AFAIK, there is no difference between ProFx v3.10 and v3.11 (AFAIK the only difference is related to which version of kX they were compiled for).