Teamspeak sounds too realistic

[Der-Schredder]

Hello!
Is there a way to exclude programs/audio sources from getting transformed to surround sound? I really like the soundcard in FPS, but Teamspeak just sounds too realistic. Most people probably like that a lot, but I don't. There are a options in Teamspeak which help to transform the sound back to normal (the option "Mono to Surround"), but this way is obviously not ideal, since the sound ist transformed twice.
I would really like to have on/off switches for individual programs. This would be a nice option for gaming+music as well.
Don't get me wrong, it's not a game breaker, but this feature would be the icing on the cake.
Best regards,
Leo

[Haary]

It would be an appreciated feature :)

[movision]

Hi DjDump

Good Idea, we put it on the list;)

Just a question can't you route the Teamspeak output directly to the sound card instead to the standard audio device what the SSC is indeed if it runs?

Best,
Tom:)

[Der-Schredder]

Thanks for the response. When I try to output the sound directly, nothing gets outputted. I don't recieve an error message either.
I tried a little bit with Audacity and got simmular results.
Case1: Audacity launches first, Spatial Soundcard second.
When I try to change the output so Spatial, I get an error message stating (in German): "Fehler beim Öffnen des Tongerätes. Bitte prüfen sie die Einstellungen für das Tongerätes und die im Projekt eingestellte Abtastrate (Samplefrequenz)."
Case2: Spatial Soundcard launches first, Audacity second.
Same behaviour when I try to change outputs.

I don't need Spatial Soundcard for Audacity, I just wanted to try another program to make sure its not a Teamspeak secific problem. But maybe the error message helps to fix the problem in Teamspeak.
Best regards,
Leo

[movision]

Hi Leo,

The German message seems to be from Audacity because we don't have any German messages. Audacity seems to have an issue with the sample rate you should be able to adjust in Audacity or maybe in the Windows audio device settings. So I understand your idea but I assume it does not prove the problem you wanted to prove.

But maybe you try the VLC Player. He can definitely address the output device discreetly. So if you run the SSC and VLC at the same time and can rout the VLC Player output directly to the output. It would be a helpful information. Could you try that?

BTW to start the SSC always first is a good strategy because it's initialized and you prevent any connection issues.

Best,
Tom:)

[Haary]

Hi,
Using vlc to send the signal directly to the output interface instead of spatial, also does not work, no error massage ist given.
I've also found an indicator why it doesnt work.
I tried to use my daw (reaper) with asio4all to output something directly while spatial is running. While spatial is running, asio displays my soundcard output as blocked. So spatial soundcard is using the output exclusively. If you can get spatial to not claim the outout for itself, it would very easily be possible to "whitelist" programs from the prossesing by assigning their output directly to the right sound card rather than to spatial sound card.
I hope you understand what i mean. Otherwise can also explain everything in german if you want to.

[movision]

Hi,

let's stay in English because others who may follow or read it later understand what we're talking about too;)

You have the possibility in the SSC settings menu to opt out that the SSC is the standard audio device. That may solve one of your issues, right?

Furthermore, you can assign the SSC in asio4all as output device too, if you want to monitor your DAW output via the SSC.

Is this the missing information to setup any application you like properly?

Best,
Tom:)

[Haary]

short englih version:

what i wanted to explain is that it is not possible to bypass the ssc prossessing with selected programs because ssc is using the original output device in an exclusive mode, therefore you cannot route any sound output to the real hardwaresoundcard while ssc is using it.

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Es ging ja urpsrünglich darum ob man ein bestimmtes programm, hier also teamspeak von der sourround umwandlung ausschließen kann. Dies wäre einfach erledigt, könnte man den teamspeak ausgang auf den output legen in dem auch der kopfhörer steckt. das problem ist nur dass ssc den output der regulären soundkarte die der kopfhörer nutzt in einem exclusiven modus nutzt. also ausser ssc kein anderes programm an den ausgang senden kann. dies wollte ich mit dem beispiel mit asio und reaper deutlich machen, denn wenn ssc aktiv ist kann man den regulären ausgang nicht mehr ansteuern er erscheint als blocked.

[movision]

Hi,
thanks for the german version;)
Well, it's new for me that the SSC blocks the sound card. Even more, if it doesn't run as the standard audio device. Please try the following what I did start the SSC. Then open e.g. VLC and start a playback. Then go to the audio device selection of the VLC player. If you still run a Playback you should be able to toggle between SSC or internal sound card output, right? If so, you can see the SSC is not blocking the internal sound card means to run in exclusive. So maybe it is a Teamspeak issue?

Looking forward to your response...

Best,
Tom:)

[Haary]

Hey,

we just found the solution. in the windows audio settings for ssc as well as the physical soundcard theres an option that programs can have exclusive rights to a soundcard. if that gets unchecked its possible to send signals to the desired audio out without processing while ssc is running :)

[movision]

Ha, live could be so easy:)
Thanks for this information.
Best,
Tom:)