Up-mixing from Stereo to 5.1

[themellowtiger]

I recently acquired 5.1 Creative speakers (for 30 bucks off ebay), and after unpacking and plugging it into my desktop, i realized that music and some movies only play sound out of the two front facing speakers and the subwoof. I did a little research and that the software that forces digital surround sound is called upmixing, and I tried a couple programs to no avail. 

 

I was wondering if you guys have any experience with this kind of stuff, and any programs that i might be able to use. 

 

Sound Card: ASUS Maximus VI Formula

[AnnoyedShelf]

for games, Razer Surround works well.

[themellowtiger]

for games, Razer Surround works well.

 

games work fine with surrond sound, im just looking for music upmixing

[EmoRarity]

Music is seldom anything but stereo, and it will  generally always be that way. The best you can do is set it up so it plays stereo through all your speakers. 

[AnnoyedShelf]

Music is seldom anything but stereo, and it will  generally always be that way. The best you can do is set it up so it plays stereo through all your speakers. 

Unless you're listening to super-audio CD's/

[EmoRarity]

Unless you're listening to super-audio CD's/

I don't know of any cd's that do multichannel, dvd's its nearly box standard. 

[themellowtiger]

Music is seldom anything but stereo, and it will  generally always be that way. The best you can do is set it up so it plays stereo through all your speakers.

 

anyways to do this?

[EmoRarity]

anyways to do this?

Fuck around in your audio settings. 

[creatip123]

Fuck around in your audio settings. 

 

With or without condoms?  :lol:

 

OP: go to your sound driver's application, the application that's automatically installed when you install the driver. Look around for an option of something like 'fill speakers', or 'fill audio', or 'use all speakers', something like that (the naming depends on each brands'). What this does is basically 'copy' the stereo channels to 5 channels (or 7 channels). You may or may not need to fiddle around the windows' audio settings too. Some application affect the windows' audio settings automatically, some don't. 

 

Alternatively, get a Foobar2k (free), and find a plugin called 'channel mixer' (also free). Install, activate on preference. The upmixing by the plugin got more versatility, you can tweak lots of stuffs with it. You can even set delays for each channels, to simulate big rooms.

[themellowtiger]

With or without condoms?  :lol:

 

OP: go to your sound driver's application, the application that's automatically installed when you install the driver. Look around for an option of something like 'fill speakers', or 'fill audio', or 'use all speakers', something like that (the naming depends on each brands'). What this does is basically 'copy' the stereo channels to 5 channels (or 7 channels). You may or may not need to fiddle around the windows' audio settings too. Some application affect the windows' audio settings automatically, some don't. 

 

Alternatively, get a Foobar2k (free), and find a plugin called 'channel mixer' (also free). Install, activate on preference. The upmixing by the plugin got more versatility, you can tweak lots of stuffs with it. You can even set delays for each channels, to simulate big rooms.

 

where would this fill speakers button be?

here is my sound application

 

[themellowtiger]

thanks your your help creatip, but i discovered a winamp plugin that solved all my problems

 

[creatip123]

where would this fill speakers button be?

here is my sound application

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mine looks like this, but this is a VIA chipset onboard audio

 

 

The button on the right side.

 

Glad you found a solution. I do, however, recommend you use the foobar2k for your music/media player. It's ugly, compared to winamp, but got lots of cool plugins, from sound processing to visualizer, to NES music player (how cool is that ). It's memory efficient, can access WASAPI and ASIO directly (with plugins), and it's still around (meaning newer plugins will still keep coming, whereas winamp has stopped)