Lusive
Average Member
Australia
151 posts
Joined: May, 2001
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 Posted - 2002/03/19 : 17:35:12
Ok one or two people asked the question, heres the info:
It all started with the apslive package that used hacked EMU APS (Audio Production Studio) Drivers on the Live Series. This was for windows 98se and gave you about 8-15ms latency.
This was fine but if you had win2k you were stuffed.
Then came the Audigy WDM uda (Uinified driver architecture) beta drivers.. leaked just before the audigy made it to shelves. (the curretn audigy drivers wont install on live, they removed the uda part)
These you could use on any emu10k card (except emu aps) which meant all lives could now get ASIO. Problem was they were 75mb because they had all the creative software included (later riped to 13mb)
These drivers are still around.. they give you up to 2ms latency (5ms works fine for me.. no clicks.. but 7 is what i keep it at).
One drawback, apart from being huge and buggy, there is no asio input. (most people can do without it anyways)
Enter kX Project: http://www.kxproject.com
These drivers are unofficial but also opensource (?? as far as i can tell)
Developed by a group of people sick of creatives neglect for their production quality cards.
The drivers started out sh*t, really buggy, clicking, slow etc
but recently they have become more stable
If you cant find the audigy beta drivers grab these (they are tiny and free)
I have just moved over to these, from audigy beta, because they offer more stuff than the audigy drivers did, and eventually will become 10x better
Things kX gives you that audigy beta doesnt:
-the ability to output to front and rear channels seperately
-extra effects and the ability to make your own
-better sound quality by swapping the rear and fron channels (rear channel has a better, and less noisy, DAC (digital to analog converter))
-theres more but my brain isnt working
Anyways check out the kX drivers...
If you really want to check out audigy beta let me know, but trust me.. as of the last release of kX, you arent missing anything anymore.
kX will continue to get better.. creative have shown time and time again they dont give a f**k about their older cards (audigy could be so much better if they made decent drivers)
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Edited by - Lusive on 2002/03/22 03:06:17 |
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