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Maxmix volume mixer software repository
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Balance at/to 100% instead of 50% Volume in Balance (Game) mode #251

Open acekrystal opened 3 years ago

acekrystal commented 3 years ago

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I used to play at 50% master output volume, and have the Game/Discord apps at 100% (within this 50% output), resulting on a total output of 50%. Now that balance mode (game mode) is again halve the output volume I only have 25% volume effective. As I set Game-50% / Discord-50% of the already output of 50% that I usually had.

Because of the only 25% effective output I tend to up the master output volume from 50% to 100% to get the same volume back in game/discord as I used to have.

But when I now go to an other app (example : click a link to an online video what opens in a browser) I get 100% of that app and the 100% master volume what is way to load.

Describe the solution you'd like I guess the middle point of the balance should not be 50%/50%, but should be 100%/100%. When you turn one app down, the other should stay 100% and the one tuning down should be less then 100%. Going back to Example 1 : APP 1---------100 APP 2---------100 Example 2: APP 1---------100 APP 2------- 70 Example 3: APP 1---- 40 APP 2---------100

Describe alternatives you've considered An alternative Could be that you can set the balance point yourself between lets say 0 and 100%. I would even by okay with sacrificing the double press function (what currently makes it instant go to 50%/50% balanced) for this. After double pressing an marker will be selected showing what the crossover point is. Example 1 : APP 1---------100 APP 2---------100 Cross ^100 Example 2: APP 1-------- 90 APP 2------- 70 Cross ^ 80 Example 3: (This example would be almost the same as how it works now because the crossover point is set @ 50%) APP 1---- 40 APP 2------- 60 Cross ^ 50

This cross over point also doubles as a volume control for both apps at the same time, where you can simply double press and turn game and discord volume (crossover) down to quickly watch a video in between, but still able to hear when you re-spawn, pause your video and get right back in the game by turning cross over point up again returning both apps to higher volume.

Additional context The current way where 100% in balance mode is still only 100% in relation to master volume is perfect and should not change.

Comparison with the current system as in 1.4.7 : Current 1 : APP 1----- 50 APP 2----- 50 Current 2: APP 1--- 30 APP 2------- 70 Current 3: APP 1---------100 APP 2 0

I kinda am planning to look into this feature myself. X3