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Topic: [DOUBLE POST] Using Foobar with Asus Xonar ST (Read 1861 times) previous topic - next topic
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[DOUBLE POST] Using Foobar with Asus Xonar ST

Hi there,
I new here so beginning my learning curve having only recently having purchased a Xonar STsound card and again recently downloaded Foobar - being over the 'magic 60 years'! it's a steep learning curve I can tell you.

I'm using a Mesh pc with Windows XP Media Center

Anyway my question is this - I've set up Foobar on the playback to use KS Xonar output am I right or do I need to download the asio driver for different results – I think the Xonar has Asio compatible drivers but I don’ have any knowledge of what this is all about so really not sure what I should be doing. I've done a bit of test vinyl lp recording from analog amp via the speaker outlets (only way to get required sound level required by the Xonar inline input) to pc using a program called Vinyl Studio which has a wide variety of quality recording settings.

For these test recordings I've used 192khz with 24 bit.

I read in the sound card instructions that when recording at these settings the Xonar would not let you use any of the DSP effects on playback i.e graphic equaliser / multi speaker effects etc (only available when using 44.1khz) sure enough that's what I found - true hifi 2 channel stereo and the effects are blocked.

However today just by chance in the Foobar DSP Manager I activated the 'Stereo to 4 channels' and suddenly found that all the effects came to life including the graphic visual display.

So I wondered when this option is activated does Foobar down sample the signal to 44.1 and therefore thats why the effects come to life or have I stumbled through a backdoor method of being able to use the Xonar effects at 192.khz?

The info at the bottom left of Foobar still shows the use of 192khz

Many thanks

Mike