How to enable Volume Meter in Surround Mix

This file "Mixer_LevelMeter.bmp" is in theme for Surround Mixer.

sonicx,
What sound card do you have? I don't have a sound meter option in the surround mixer for my Audigy LS or ZS cards. However, for the ZS card, I have a volume meter in WaveStudio. Also, the Creative MediaSource Player has meter bars. Have you tried those?Message Edited by Katman on 0-27-2006 0:08 PM

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I figured the computer?was defaulting to the?new sound card so I disabled the onboard audio in my BIOS and then installed the Creative Sound Blaster Series 2 Driver. I clicked on the driver and it said that it needed to uninstall another driver that was already there. The install went a little funny and it got hung up a couple of times. Then, I couldn't get Surround Mixer to work at all so I went to the Creative website and installed Software Auto Update. I downloaded and installed all the critical components?but that also went a little funny. It took about three tries and it didn't seem like it actually finished installing, but when I checked on Auto Update again, it said that I was up to date and that everything had installed. I noticed at the beginning that it installed a new version of Surround Mixer but when I opened it later, it still had those same generic options, not the the ones that match my external interface.
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Message Edited by audiodrome on 04-30-2009 06:46 PMMessage Edited by audiodrome on 04-30-2009 07:32 [email protected]

>Re: How do I get my old Surround Mixer recording sources back?p audiodrome,
Is the external Audigy Dri've properly connected? Does the Plat Ex have the rear jacks? If so, can you record from the rear LineIn or mic jack and play sound files through headphones or speakers? What happens when you run the Creative Diagnostic? What does Device Manager show? Otherwise, yes, uninstall and reinstall the Creative software. If your install CD has a repair option, try that first. However, you may find you need to remove the Audigy from your PC, reboot without it, and then reinstall everything. Some Soundblaster cards don't play well with some integrated soundcards, so you may also want to disable the integrated soundcard in BIOS.
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I've started working on Speech Recognition technology for my final year project. I am required to make a Speech Recognition System for Windows. I want to add volume meter in my software to see how loud the user is speaking.
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1. 0 -∞ -∞ 0 Uncomfortable, too "obvious"
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3. -3 0 0 -3 music too front
4. 0 -3 0 0 not bad, music more forward than #6
5. 0 0 0 -3 music too front
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8. 0 0 0 0 result pending
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******NOTE: This workaround involves using a 3rd party driver, and is not officially supported by Creative Labs ******
Please add any comments on the original post, found here: http://forums.creative.com/creativel...essage.id=7420
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** This is a third party driver and is not endorsed or supported by creative.
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www.thebast.com/Citech2007/itworks.jpg
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A: Interleaved! see down here.
Q: Where there is corrective or creative compression or EQ, should I keep in bounced versions?
A: depends on the media you are going to ship your production.
Q: Where tracks are panned, should I bounce this information or leave centered?
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Q: Where a track is bussed to a reverb for example, should I send the bus as a separate track, or send the original file wet?
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Q: Where more than one SFX appears on a track, should I separate them onto separate tracks?
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