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[thomaspf]

Hi,

I am in the process of planning a multizone music system based on MC. I am looking for the right sound card for this application.

I want to use t ASIO output module and wonder whether you can use the LynxTwo for this application. I would expect that you could use this card for 3 zones and select ASIO with a different offset in each zone. 

Can anyone here confirm that this works?

Any other success stories for using a single multichannel sound card for multiple zones with ASIO output?

Cheers

  Thomas

[peri-archer]

I am using Echo Gina 3G, which is capable of 6 outputs.
By multichannel, I guess you mean multiple outputs, a regular 5.1 or 7.1 consumer soundcard is a multichannel, but not a multiple outputs because those channels can not be configured independently. If that's the case, then, yes, you can use a multiple outputs soundcard for multiple zones. ASIO works fine, but I am not sure if you can select different ASIO buffer in each zone, it does not work for my Gina 3G.

[thomaspf]

Thanks peri-archer,

this is exactly what I was looking for. Independent Stereo pairs out of the same sound card.

The configuration I have in mind was to set up Mediacenter with 3 zones and select a different channel offset for the ASIO playback plugin. I assume that is how you set this up?

different buffer sizes are not an issue for me. Can you also address the digital ouput as a potential 4th zone?

Cheers

    Thomas 

[peri-archer]

Yes, you just need to choose channel offset to configure ASIO zones. Digital out can also be configured as another ASIO zone.