Asus Xonar Essence STX - Manual (Page 30)

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6.3 Mixer/Volume
The mixer page is designed to control the volume for playback and recording on
the Xonar Essence STX. In addition, the Xonar Essence STX also provides a high-
quality digital monitoring function for hearing the recorded audio from the speakers.
You can also process the input signals with all playback sound effects such as
Dolby and DTS technologies.
6.3.1 Playback Volume
No Item Description
1 Playback volume tab Click this button to show the playback volume page.
2 Left / Right balance The horizontal slider controls the volume between the left
and right channels.
3 Volume slider Drag this slider down to decrease the volume; drag it up to
increase the volume. The tool-tip reveals the percentage
number from 1 to 100 in terms of the full scale level.
4 Mute button Click this button to mute the audio channel; click this button
again to restore the audio output.
5 Source / path name This shows the source name for each volume control slider,
including:
- WAVE: All digital audio sources except MIDI files
- SW: Software Synthesizer; control the playback volume of
the MIDI files
- CD: CD-ROM digital playback (CD-DA) volume control
- LEFT, RIGHT…: the volume control for each speaker/
channel
NOTE: Windows
® Vista does not support WAVE, Synthesizer
and CD-In volume controls.
6 Reset Reset all volume controls to the default settings
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