Front / Rear balance on X

Hi there,
I bought an X-FI Fatality and also have an 7. speakersystem (creative T7700 if I remember correct) My rear speakers are pretty far away in comperison with the other 5, First I used the onboard card of my motherboard and then I can balance the front, rear, side volume, how can this be done with the X-FI, I can not find it. Now I do not here my rear speakers because the others ore to loud.
I have a dutch isntallation, so if someone also knows dutch please specify the procedure in dutch, but english is fine to.
Tnx, Ronald

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Hello fellow archers!
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