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[aseimel]

Hello Everyone,

I am currently testing JRiver 29. I have 2.1 setup that is corrected with Dirac live multi-channel standalone. I output from JRiver using WASAPI into the dirac live virtual sound card. The Dirac digital sound card is set up as a 96khz 2.1 device and my settings outputs settings look as follows:



While to the best of my knowledge I thought this setup should be correct I always get an error:





This is strange because it shouldn''t be six but three channels. With any other setup I tried for testing 3.1, 5.1 it shows the correct number of channels in the error message but when set it up as 2.1 the error shows 6 six channels. This seem pretty odd to me. Is this a bug or do I have a mistake in my settings?


Edit: the error message says Direct sound because I tried this a possible fix but I get the same error for WASAPI

Thank you in advance.

[Matt]

2.1 output will actually use six channels and just fill three of them.  This is because the 5.1 format is a standard.

[AGAWA]

try the following:
set output channels to 5.1
tick the box : for stereo sources , only mix to 2.1
set channels back to 2.1
and see what you get.
This trick works for my 4 speaker setup.

[aseimel]

Thank you for the quick responses.

2.1 output will actually use six channels and just fill three of them.  This is because the 5.1 format is a standard.

Why is it like this for 2.1 but not 3.1? Because if I set it to 3.1 the error message shows 4 not 6 channels.

try the following:
set output channels to 5.1
tick the box : for stereo sources , only mix to 2.1
set channels back to 2.1
and see what you get.
This trick works for my 4 speaker setup.

I tried this but unfortunately it didn't work 

[aseimel]

Ok so I tried using the VST3 plugin instead and got it to work with 3.1 channels and the I move the center to the LR but I am pretty sure that is adding unnecessary up- and down mixing to the chain. The problem is that that the 2.1 setting is seen as a 6-channel output. That causes an error because my Motu only has 4 outputs. The 3.1 setting on the other hand is only seen as a 4-channel output so I cannot really imagine that this is this really intentional. It would really prohibit the use of a lot of audio interfaces.