I have a Creative Inspire 5.1 speaker setup around my room plugged into the Audigy card in my computer and I use it for surround sound from the computer and from my XBox ((don't ask how I did it, long story )). The problem is, the speakers are far from in the "proper" 5.1 setup, and I'm never sitting in the centre where I could get real surround. It's always lopsided in one way or another.

What I'm looking for is a piece of software that would be able to control the volume of each individual speaker. I know 2 ways that this could work quite well, one being the easiest for me (though the hardest to program - or to program well), and one being just a general form of what it could be.



This is the first option. Where I can move around each speaker and where I would be sitting and the program would calculate the proper levels for each speaker.

The second option would just be a row of controls - something like a mixing board - and I could just move each one individually.

Optimally, the program would have presets that I could save (as I generally have 1 place I sit for the comp, and 1 for the xbox).

The problem is, I haven't been able to find such a program. The creative software is just a dot on a 2d board that I can move around - not very functional (especially considering it doesn't control the front speaker at all); and every single search I've run through (including the first 20 or so pages of this board) has come up blank.

Does anybody here know of a program that could do all that? It would be much appreciated...

Ideally, you also want to be able to adjust the delay of the speakers. That will help some with the unlevel volume also.

Delay doesn't bother me, I'm not quite that much of an audiophile ((yet))...but it would be really nice to be able to turn up the rear left speaker without turning down the front right, ya know?

Guess that's a bit too much to ask of software dev's, because I've gotten shitall from 3 forums so far...

kx drivers let you change front/rear/central volumes separately, and set delay.
Take a look at Kx site.

Oh, I did forget about those.

Unfortunately, I depend on the Dolby Digital decoding that the Creative drivers support (as opposed to the kX drivers which do not support anything past 2 channels on he S/PDIF)....and, as such, the kX drivers are of no use. But thank you for the first actual helpful post I've ever gotten with this question.