Ultimate Audio Challenge

[Kevin11]

I have two monitors with built-in speakers. I want right sound to come out of the right monitor and left sound to come out of the left monitor. Is this possible or is this an impossible challenge? Right now I'm using voicemeeter to have monosound come out of both so I know the sound works fine on both, i just need to set them to right and left speaker somehow

[Electronics Wizardy]

How are you sending audio?

 

If you using trs 3.5mm cables you can make a little adapter very easy.

[Kevin11]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How are you sending audio?

 

If you using trs 3.5mm cables you can make a little adapter very easy.

 

two hdmi cables

[rattacko123]

you could probably use VSThost in combination with virtual audio cable to split the audio between the two monitors, but that will add latency. I have personally used VSThost, and it works, but when combined with virtual audio cable there is just too much latency imo

[Kevin11]

3 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

you could probably use VSThost in combination with virtual audio cable to split the audio between the two monitors, but that will add latency. I have personally used VSThost, and it works, but when combined with virtual audio cable there is just too much latency imo

 

this would allow me to have only left sound come from left speaker and only right sound come from right speaker to give a dual speaker feel to my dual monitor setup? voicemeeter works great for just giving the same sound out of both

[rattacko123]

4 minutes ago, Kevin11 said:

this would allow me to have only left sound come from left speaker and only right sound come from right speaker to give a dual speaker feel to my dual monitor setup? voicemeeter works great for just giving the same sound out of both

I think so, if you can find a vst plugin that turns the left channel into mono, then output to your left monitor (save as a preset) and run another vsthost window (probably a different install location as well so the presets dont collide with each other) with the audio from the right and output to your right monitor that should work. You would use voicemeeter as your input in the vst windows and use the hdmi outputs as well.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

no offense but: seriously - buy some speakers :-)

chances that even the crappiest speakers are gonna sound 10 times better than the built in ones are actually pretty good, as in 101% chance :-)

 

please don't flame me, I'm sensible :-)

[Kevin11]

9 hours ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

no offense but: seriously - buy some speakers :-)

chances that even the crappiest speakers are gonna sound 10 times better than the built in ones are actually pretty good, as in 101% chance :-)

 

please don't flame me, I'm sensible :-)

 

Actually the speakers are really, really good in the Asus monitors. The bass is amazing. And a setup is a lot cleaner without speakers. Last time I had speakers, I had surround sound and my cats kept destroying the cords, not really trying to deal with that again lol

[Kevin11]

11 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

I think so, if you can find a vst plugin that turns the left channel into mono, then output to your left monitor (save as a preset) and run another vsthost window (probably a different install location as well so the presets dont collide with each other) with the audio from the right and output to your right monitor that should work. You would use voicemeeter as your input in the vst windows and use the hdmi outputs as well.

 

thanks for the help! I'll set this up later and let you know how it turns out

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

9 hours ago, Kevin11 said:

Actually the speakers are really, really good in the Asus monitors. The bass is amazing. And a setup is a lot cleaner without speakers. Last time I had speakers, I had surround sound and my cats kept destroying the cords, not really trying to deal with that again lol

yeah well "cat-proof" involves a wired electrical fence which is sort of not ideal in an office environment. hinthint: the Bose Music Monitors are made of aluminium and are therefore cat-proof. besides the cables of course. :-)

[corrado33]

Sounds like a great job for a mixer.

 

L/R in together from computer/ L to left monitor, R to right monitor. 

 

The only problem I see is that if the monitor has two speakers, they probably work in stereo, so if you only send L audio to it, only the L speaker will work. But if you have a mixer you should be able to switch the audio stereo in software (no latency, windows can do it easily) use multiple audio outputs and mix them back together to get a right "mono" and left "mono" source for each monitor.

 

Unless, of course, you can switch the monitor over to "mono" mode. That'd make things REALLY easy. At that point you could do it with some wire strippers and a soldering iron. But aux cables are typically a PITA to solder because they use coated wires. 

 

I'm not an expert in this, but if the monitors don't have amplifiers you may run into issues driving so many speakers from a single audio port. 

 

 

EDIT: Wait, does your motherboard have 5.1 or 7.1 audio ports? In that case it'd just be plugging the R monitor into the R port and the L monitor into the left port.

 

If the answer to the question is no, then the easiest way to do this would probably be to buy a 5.1 or 7.1 audio card.