Jonas Dannert Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 WATCHOUT needs a Extensible Wave file, WAVE-EX, can be created in Audacity for example. AC-3/Dolby Digital/DTS etc does not work with WATCHOUT. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Please look in these threads in the forum for more on the subject:http://dataton.com/forum/topic/613-multichannel-audio-help-needed/http://dataton.com/forum/topic/516-how-to-set-up-51-audio-for-watchout-5http://dataton.com/forum/topic/114-watchout-5-and-successful-surroundmultichannel-audio-setup/page__st__20http://dataton.com/forum/topic/114-watchout-5-and-successful-surroundmultichannel-audio-setupHope this helps,/jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mith Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Jonas, thank you for reply, but im still not getting surround at watchout or quicktime, can you upload a working file sound, for me to test if there is my sound file our my computer? Thanks again 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 You have to: - have a correct file (included) - set Windows Default audio to multichannel in the control panel Then it basically should work. /jonas 6_Channel_ID.wav 8_Channel_ID.wav 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydney Posted August 28, 2013 Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Yes, ECHO Audiofire8 works well with WATCHOUT, Windows 7 up to 8 channels. This seems to be the maximum number of channels achievable in Win7, at the moment. WATCHOUT relies on the soundcards DirectSound/WDM-driver for this, not ASIO. /jonas Is it still the case a eighteen months on from this thread that Watchout relies on DirectSound/WDM driver and doesn't use ASIO ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted December 9, 2013 Report Share Posted December 9, 2013 Yes. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNinja Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 Hi! Just as a comment - would it be interesting for the rest of the users if I test our system with Dante Virtual Sound Card ? I have a license and a equipment I can test with, I think we can use more than 8 channels in WO because right now I have 16 channels for another software Best regards, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbrownell Posted December 11, 2013 Report Share Posted December 11, 2013 Just another product to add to the mix. we've successfully used an HT|Omega eClaro 7.1 sound card (~$180 from newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271006&Tpk=eclaro) in a theater. we run 6 tracks of audio and one of LTC to lock our lighting and some other devices. it uses unbalanced RCA connections on the output. been working for a year in this mode. have to use EX-WAV files as Jonas and others defined earlier. we have found some issues where the driver will 'crunch' all the tracks into the left/right channels every so often -- which is highly annoying when one of the tracks is LTC! to work around it, we simply make the playhead never leave the audio track (never unload from memory) and do reboots with a tech team able to listen and fix it before the theater is on-line with the public. Matt Denver Museum of Nature & Science 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmer Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 Hi, Jonas said "ECHO AudioFire and PreSonus products has been tested and used",so i use a PreSonus AudioBox 1818 with my WO5 WIN7 64bit. I use Nuendo to play a 7.1 audio fie,it's OK.But it doesn't work with WO5. Anybody can show me how to setup the 7.1 with PreSonus? Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathieu Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Hi! Just as a comment - would it be interesting for the rest of the users if I test our system with Dante Virtual Sound Card ? I have a license and a equipment I can test with, I think we can use more than 8 channels in WO because right now I have 16 channels for another software Best regards, Hi Nninja, yes,i would be pleased to hear the results of your tests. Mathieu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathieu Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hi, what would you think about this solution to play multiwav files: http://www.aes-hdmi.com/hdmi-2a.html could it work? or is it the same WDM drivers problem? Thanks Mathieu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Since we haven't tested it, we can't say. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted February 12, 2014 Moderator Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Hi, what would you think about this solution to play multiwav files: Arvus Digital — HDMI-2A 8 channel AES/EBU Digital Audio Converter could it work? or is it the same WDM drivers problem? Thanks Mathieu It could work, it simply transfers the driver issue to an unknown third party. i.e. if you can find a WDM driver that takes the WATCHOUT sound playback and integrates the audio into the computer's HDMI video output, then I suppose that box would take you the rest of the way. Finding a stable driver to do that is still the key. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNinja Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hi Nninja, yes,i would be pleased to hear the results of your tests. Mathieu Hi! Unfortunately I couldn't get it work. With the new DVS with WDM support I can achieve 8in/8out in Windows, but DVS is shown as 4 single sound cards so I cannot make it work as a multichannel card in WO. Maybe in WO ver6 there will be ASIO support 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mayunta Posted February 14, 2014 Member Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 I've been looking at the characteristics of the audio interface "TC electronic Konnect 48". Does anyone has tried to use 8 channels? According to the manual the WDM driver can be set to surround mode. This is the link: http://www.tcelectronic.com/media/218482/tc_electronic_studio_konnekt_48_manual_english.pdf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 Again, Since we haven't tested it, we can't say. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathieu Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Hi! Unfortunately I couldn't get it work. With the new DVS with WDM support I can achieve 8in/8out in Windows, but DVS is shown as 4 single sound cards so I cannot make it work as a multichannel card in WO. Maybe in WO ver6 there will be ASIO support allright, Thank you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathieu Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 hi, for information, we reached to play 6 tracks multiwav file directly at the outputs of a motherboard (ASUS P9X79). but not the 8 tracks multiwav file. Mathieu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted February 24, 2014 Moderator Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 hi, for information, we reached to play 6 tracks multiwav file directly at the outputs of a motherboard (ASUS P9X79). but not the 8 tracks multiwav file. Mathieu Out of curiosity, did you attempt to remap channels 7 and 8 to higher channel numbers, i.e. 9 and 10, etc. I have seen situations where the last two channels map differently and this has been a solution. The hardware is still limited to eight channels of outputs, it is just some drivers interpret the higher channel numbers differently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 It's not some drivers, it's a change in Windows 7 from how they were assigned in Windows XP. Also a reason for using our Channel Assignment Tool. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted February 24, 2014 Moderator Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Ahh, yes, thanks for the reminder. Win 7 and Win XP interpret channel assignments differently. i.e. even Microsoft can not agree with themselves on the "standard". Quickest way to test is with a set of mono .wav files, each assigned to a different channel using the Channel Assignment Tool. Assign a mono .wav file to each of the eighteen output channels available in the tool above. You will likely find eight that work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathieu Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 hi, any news about multichannel possibilities with watchout 5.5.2/windows 7? is there any new sound cards tested by dataton? would it be better with windows 8? we haven't test with windows 8 yet. thanks, Mathieu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fahl Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 Please wait a week and a half, and we'll have some more answers for you. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathieu Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Please wait a week and a half, and we'll have some more answers for you. Mike mmm, great! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mindopera Posted February 3, 2015 Member Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 We've been successfully using ECHO Audiofire8's for 4 years on Windows 7 machines. I don't know if they are making 8 channel boxes anymore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted February 3, 2015 Moderator Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 We've been successfully using ECHO Audiofire8's for 4 years on Windows 7 machines. I don't know if they are making 8 channel boxes anymore. Unfortunately, the Echo AudioFire interfaces are no longer in production. Work great if you can get a hold of them. We have switched to FocusRite FireWire interfaces when Echo stopped making theirs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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