Re: Sending an effect to a particular speaker of sb5.1

Chris Robinson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.openal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 29 November 2009 9:07:31 am Oleksiy Frolov wrote:
> Thank you Kris
> 
> > Another way would be to make a 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 buffer and place the mono
> > data in one channel, leaving the others silent. This has the same benefit
> > as above (input channels that are missing an output are virtualized) and
> > it will work with the LFE channel, but those formats aren't always
> > available.
> 
> But this will not allow for the effect to be used, correct ?

It won't be guaranteed for EFX effects to work with them, no. IIRC, some newer 
hardware can enable effects on multi-channel streams, and the latest Git 
version of OpenAL Soft can pass multi-channel streams to the effects, though 
in OpenAL Soft's case it's down-mixed to mono before processing.
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