No Audio with SoundBlaster AE-9 Direct Mode
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:04 pm
I use Voicemeeter Potato on a Windows 10 machine. I have an SoundBlaster AE-9 sound card. I use this to route and hear sounds from a Software Defined Radio receiver called Thetis. I have used this on a daily basis for a long time with no issues. I use ASIO drivers to obtain as low a latency as possible. I route the Thetis Input and output through "Voicemeeter AUX Virtual ASIO". Thetis is set to a sample rate of 96000 and Buffer size of 64. THis setup works great.
The problem comes in when I try and use the Soundblaster "Direct Mode". With "Direct Mode" the SoundBlaster AE-9 card is capable of delivering a sample rate of 192 kHz. When I switch to Direct Mode 24bit 192 kHz I loose sound through Voicemeeter. I change my Sample Rate in Thetis to 192 kHz with no change. All my Windows 10 settings are set to 192 kHz 24 bit. I've tried changing buffer sizes with no improvement. All Windows 10 system sounds are not affected and work fine. I just loose sound with Voicemeeter Potato and the Thetis application. I hope this provides enough information to help in solving my issue. What am I missing? I've included some screen shots. Not reflected in the Thetis screen shot is the fact that the sample rate is set to 192000
The problem comes in when I try and use the Soundblaster "Direct Mode". With "Direct Mode" the SoundBlaster AE-9 card is capable of delivering a sample rate of 192 kHz. When I switch to Direct Mode 24bit 192 kHz I loose sound through Voicemeeter. I change my Sample Rate in Thetis to 192 kHz with no change. All my Windows 10 settings are set to 192 kHz 24 bit. I've tried changing buffer sizes with no improvement. All Windows 10 system sounds are not affected and work fine. I just loose sound with Voicemeeter Potato and the Thetis application. I hope this provides enough information to help in solving my issue. What am I missing? I've included some screen shots. Not reflected in the Thetis screen shot is the fact that the sample rate is set to 192000