Musicians: You might be extremely interested in this...

[Gregjazz]

Hi,

Those of you with EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or E-mu Systems Inc., including the SoundBlaster Live! series, the E-mu Audio Production Studio (APS) card, and the Audigy / Audigy2 series of cards will probably be interested in this link:

http://www.kxproject.com/

Take your soundcard to its full advantages! With this free driver the following is now possible:

DirectSound 2D and DirectSound 3D
Full ASIO and GSIF support
DSP Microcode Loading/Unloading
Full AC97 codec control
AC3 Software Decoding

Enjoy!

[ScottDoom]

I have a Creative Audigy X gamer sound card. I downloaded and installed the drivers. After the restart, the Windows XP start-up sound played, but when I tried playing MP3s from WinAmp, I didn't hear anything.

[Gregjazz]

Is the Audigy X a supported card?

Besides, these drivers are mainly used for musicians, they warn you that if you're a gamer, you probably shouldn't use the drivers.

Check their forums. I'm sure they'd be glad to help you out with any technical difficulties.

EDIT: Okay, I installed the drivers, and I had the same problems that you described -- the startup sound works, but you can't hear anything else. The solution is this:

1. in "Speaker Setup" (found on the main screen of the KX mixer), put 'surround' to off.

2. Make sure the 'swap front and rear mode' is OFF.

3. Also make certain the digital output mode is also off.

Now it should work! Let me know if you have any more technical difficulties.