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Appendix E: PureWave and SuperChannel
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Appendix E: PureWave and SuperChannel
Now you have only three wave devices – a six channel device addressing the first
six analog outputs, a stereo device addressing the next two analog outs, and finally
an eight channel device for the eight digital outputs.
This is the basic idea of SuperChannel – it allows you to optimally configure your
wave devices for your specific application.
When would I want to use SuperChannel?
SuperChannel is useful in the following situations:
•
You are using Cakewalk’s SONAR or some other application that supports
multichannel wave devices. SONAR works more efficiently with a
multichannel wave device than with multiple stereo wave devices. We
recommend that you decide how many output and input channels you want
to use from SONAR and then configure the wave devices accordingly.
•
You want to do surround sound playback from an application such as
Windows Media Player, WinDVD, or PowerDVD. Please refer to the
surround sound setup example, below, for more information.
•
You want to hide channels that you aren’t using. This is especially useful on
Windows 2000, where you can only have ten wave devices. SuperChannel
lets you collapse unused channels into a single wave device.
SuperChannel has no effect on software that uses the ASIO or GSIF interfaces. In
addition, SuperChannel is not supported for PureWave mode; there’s no real need
for it.