I usually keep audio apps running on a secondary touchscreen monitor.
This way its easy to mute the Asus DGX for all tactile channels instantly via its control panel.
Somone may know a way to create a shortcut and operate via a (keyboard command) for muting audio but as in this case. To mute a secondary soundcard not the windows "primary audio" soundcard.
I think I found this .....
1. First download a small app called
Xonar Switch This controls the Xonar DGX soundcard, containing controls for volume, up to 8 channel mixer, an equalizer and crossover. Importantly, it also has the facility to create different profiles and to control some functions on the fly with keyboard shortcuts, including muting volume and switching between profiles.
2. When you install it you should get an icon on your desktop like this
3. When you click on this to open the app, nothing appears to happen. However, on your taskbar on the right [I am on Windows 10] this icon
should appear. If not, click on the ^ symbol on the same taskbar and you should see
there.
4. If you double click on
,
Real Time Settings will come up. You might want to come back and look at this later.
5. If instead you right click on
a menu box appears.
6. Click on
Options and this box appears
7. Click on
Shortcuts. Hit the key or keys on your keyboard you want to assign to mute sound, or even control sound level if you want.
I use Xpadder to map keyboard shortcuts to buttons, switches and dials on my wheel and button box, but I think Hotkeys and others do the same. So now I have a switch I can toggle to mute the vibrations from my Buttkickers whenever I want, in DiRT Rally or any other sim. And it works.
Going back to 5 above. At top of the menu is
Profiles. Click on this and then on
New and you can create and save a profile. This might be handy for those of you who have a zillion tactile transducers and want to experiment or have different mixer or equalizer settings for different cars/sims.