56.1 surround sound using Denon surround amp and Audigy 5/RX

[Mr Latte]

Perhaps what you have in mind could be addressed by so-called samplers in real time. These basically work similarly to synthesizers, but operating on (live) audio, rather than oscillators or noise generators. Post-processing game (or SimHub) audio effects may be more expedient than reverse-engineering those sources.

I am routing the soundcards 3.5mm - XLR inputs, converting the real-time audio into digital form with low latency for application within a DAW. It doesn't matter if it is (Simhub Effects) or (Game Audio) as both when output from the soundcard are just audio.

Once the audio is routed into the DAW via an interface you can pretty much do anything with the audio that can be done with (realtime audio). If of course you have and learn how to use various plugin tools you want.

It could be simple EQ/Crossover filtering, it could be dynamics, compressor, or enhancements like stereo widening, subharmonic processing, reverb, delay or generating your own adapted LFE outputs from the main channels.

So applying something simple or doing something more advanced. Honestly so many things to play around with or learn to use for possible specific usage cases or just controlling the audio for your preferences for your speaker/sub or tactile hardware.

You can buy 2 channel audio interfaces for £50-£100 or so.
It just gets more expensive if you want additional inputs/outputs, increased routing capabilities and things like wifi control. For software, Cakewalk is widely used free DAW software as DAWs from leading companies can vary a lot in price.

There are quite a lot of free audio plugins too, for those that want to attempt to play about with such but on a budget.

Its a deep topic....

 

[blekenbleu]

There are quite a lot of free audio plugins too

To minimize conversions between digital and analog, software routers for Windows
should (at least in theory) allow running game and SimHub audio channels
thru software samplers before soundcard output.
I've not yet tried any, having run DAWs only on macOS and iOS,
but here are two freeware Windows audio routers:

• eiz / SynchronousAudioRouter
• audiorouterdev / audio-router

 

[Mr Latte]

Well, perhaps such recommendations need a person to try to see if its a valid option or not and if latency becomes an issue? You should do a thread on it and experiment if you already have good awareness of DAWs and audio tools.

The hardware method in using an audio interface just works with no faffing around.


AUM is also a superb solution on iPad without the need for a user learning how to use a DAW.
You just select inputs and attach whatever plugins you want to be processed on that input.

Example of using AUM with Fabfilter Pro Q3 EQ attached to channel 1 & 2
I am still learning but trying different options my own hardware supports.