[simpits-tech] Splitting sounds in X-Plane

Roy Coates simpits-tech@simpits.org
Mon, 19 May 2003 10:19:37 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 18 May 2003, Bubba wrote:

> Yesterday my POS Phillips sound card finally went completely tango uniform.
> The left channel died a few months ago, the right last night while playing
> pinball. I yanked it out, frisbeed it into the street, and stuck in a
> Soundblaster Live 5.1 and now I'm much happier :)
>
> While waiting for the unbelievably slow installer to finish I got to
> thinking about it. Is there a way to split the sounds up so that ambient
> noise goes to the main output and stuff that should go to the headset goes
> to the rear or center output? Would make things much more realistic since I
> could crank up the speakers to earsplitting levels, put on the headset, and
> barely hear the tower ;)

that would indeed, rock.  doubt austin will entertain it though.

Which pinball are you playing?  Never found a good one for windoze and in
fact I keep a DOS box running to play Fantasy pinball and little else!

Roy.