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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 11:37am

For those of you with SPDif out probs...

My KPA SPDif out does not work at home with my audio interface.
At home I have a M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 PCI audio interface on a Win7 (32 bit) machine.
No matter what I do, I get a digital clock reading of 44.1 Khz but no sound output. But when I connect a PodX3 over SPDif, it works without a prob.

So I went to a fellow forum member yesterday with my KPA. We connected my SPDif out to his USB audio interface (Alesis something or other) and it worked perfectly!

Haven't figured out what the problem here is yet. I have tried everything from removing and reinstalling the Delta drivers etc., choosing 16bit vs 24bit via Win7. Nada!

Those of you who get no sound (or a weak signal) on the SPDif out of the KPA, what is your audio interface?
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 11:49am

We tested it in the spdif of the built-in Sounblaster X-fi fatality, the Alesis was not involved (it actually doesn't have spdif)
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 11:55am

Either it is a sync problem because both devices are set as master or your audio interface is simply not working as is should. Could be a result of a bad driver. To really sort it out, you should do a cross check. I would suggest to simply test your audio interface with another device which has a coax spdif out. Perhaps a DVD player or something. Play a cd over it into your audio interface.

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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:03pm

Quoted from "guitarnet70"

We tested it in the spdif of the built-in Sounblaster X-fi fatality, the Alesis was not involved (it actually doesn't have spdif)


My bad... right, it was a Soundblaster AI.
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:05pm

Quoted from "tylerhb"

Either it is a sync problem because both devices are set as master or your audio interface is simply not working as is should. Could be a result of a bad driver. To really sort it out, you should do a cross check. I would suggest to simply test your audio interface with another device which has a coax spdif out. Perhaps a DVD player or something. Play a cd over it into your audio interface.
The PodX3 has a coax SPDif out. When I connect this to the SPDif in of the same soundcard, it works perfectly at any KHz rate.

The same connection (cable etc.) with the KPA yields a clock reading but no sound output.

How can I *not* set something as a "master"? ?(
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:12pm

Quoted from "schneidas"

Quoted from "tylerhb"

Either it is a sync problem because both devices are set as master or your audio interface is simply not working as is should. Could be a result of a bad driver. To really sort it out, you should do a cross check. I would suggest to simply test your audio interface with another device which has a coax spdif out. Perhaps a DVD player or something. Play a cd over it into your audio interface.
The PodX3 has a coax SPDif out. When I connect this to the SPDif in of the same soundcard, it works perfectly at any KHz rate.

The same connection (cable etc.) with the KPA yields a clock reading but no sound output.

How can I *not* set something as a "master"? ?(
The KPA must be master clock and the soundcard slave, this is how my one was set yesterday. Another point is that you need to max the input volume of the spdif on the sound card (control panel/sound/spdif/advanced) and turn the master volume on the KPA quite high (all the way up, actually).
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:15pm

input volume max on soundcard... check!
output volume (rig and MV) max on KPA... check!
still no sound output... check!

soundcard slave... how do I set this?
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:21pm

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input volume max on soundcard... check!
output volume (rig and MV) max on KPA... check!
still no sound output... check!

soundcard slave... how do I set this?
Control panel/Sound/Recording/Spdif in/Advanced, check both case of the "exclusive mode". Then from your DAW/Options/Input devices set the soundcard to Slave, not to Master.
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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:30pm

Check this threat. The control panel should have a dialog for "sync source". Set it to "external"

http://forums.m-audio.com/showthread.php…out-not-working

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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:31pm

Quoted from "guitarnet70"

Control panel/Sound/Recording/Spdif in/Advanced, check both case of the "exclusive mode". Then from your DAW/Options/Input devices set the soundcard to Slave, not to Master.
"exclusive mode"... check (it was always like this)!
DAW... can't find this e.g. in Reaper
But it should work regardless of the DAW (I should get a sound output over the active monitors if a signal gets in on the SPDif in)... and I don't!
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