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a) Play / route sound FX to various independent speakers located in different areas of a stage or
auditorium.
b) Play Music / Announcements / Sound FX independently on speakers located in different
rooms.
c) Create 3D audio effects using up to 32 speakers situated in the same room.
You can use a multiple-output soundcard along with a normal SoundBlaster compatible soundcard
in the same ShowMagic PC. In this case the SoundBlaster compatible soundcard can be treated as
the
primary soundcard and the multiple-output soundcard can be treated as a secondary soundcard.
In this case, compressed audio files such as .mp3 and .wma files can only be played on any
available ‘DirectShow’ channels - they cannot be played on the ASIO channels. Uncompressed
.wav files can be played on both the DirectShow and the ASIO channels.
You can play multiple .wav files at the same time on any of the ASIO channels. You can also play
multiple audio files (in compressed and un-compressed file formats) on the ‘default’ Directshow
channels - 1 and 2 - but you can only play one audio file at once on any other DirectShow channels.
Multiple-output soundcards tend to use either a breakout cable adapter that consists of a bunch of
cables with phono or jack sockets on the end, or a breakout box containing a number of phono or
jack sockets.
Using ShowMagic, these outputs can be treated as stereo pairs e.g. outputs 1 and 2 are the first left
and right stereo outputs, outputs 3 and 4 are the second stereo left and right outputs and so on, or
each channel can be selected as a single mono output, or in any combination, at any time.
Please Note:
Channel pairs 1/2 are selectable on both primary and secondary soundcards. So, if you are using a
SoundBlaster compatible primary soundcard with a single pair of outputs, and a secondary
soundcard with 4 pairs of analogue outputs you will be able to select from 5 pairs of outputs - 1/2
on the primary soundcard and 1/2, 3/4, 5/6 or 7/8 on the secondary soundcard.
In order to use a multi-output soundcard with ShowMagic you need to first set it up using the
Control Panel / Console utility that is supplied with the soundcard after the soundcard has been
successfully installed in Windows.
Playing Multi-Tracks (Multiple, Synchronized .wav Files)
If you are using a multiple output soundcard that is supplied with ASIO drivers, you can play up to
16 synchronized .wav files on outputs 1 to 16. (limited to 8 fixed outputs on the SL Free Edition
model). This can be useful if you are playing customized ‘surround-sound’ tracks, or backing tracks
for a band (certain tracks can be sent to the drummers’ headphones and others can be played to
foldback speakers for other members of the band etc).
To load a multi-track sound event onto a sound event button do the following:
1) Highlight an empty sound event button.
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