Sound Voltex
SDVX 5 Upgrade[edit | edit source]
To go from "legacy" SDVX to SDVX 5+ (Vivid Wave and beyond), another PC was added inside of the cabinet, in addition to a KFChickenShim Board.
The KFChickenShim Board is only being used for audio. The input board (KFCA) remains installed of the legacy PC, which now boots directly into KFChicken. KFChicken is a program that uses libacio to mirror input/output state to a host running Spice Tools using the Spice API.
The modern PC (currently, actually an old Optiplex) is running Win10 Embedded with SDVX Vivid Wave booting via Spice Tools. The API is exposed on port 8899, with the password changeme. It has a static IP at 192.168.0.119 so this can be encoded in the KFChicken configuration JSON file.
When both PCs boot up, the legacy PC running KFChicken will connect to the Spice API over the network to mirror input and output state.