User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX Creative Audio Software
- Contents
- Introduction
- About the Sound Blaster Audigy Card and external Audigy Drive
- Installing Hardware
- Installation Steps
- Step 1: Prepare the external Audigy Drive
- Step 2: Prepare your computer
- Step 3: Connect the Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy Extension cards
- Step 4: Install the Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy Extension cards
- Step 5: Install the external Audigy Drive
- Step 6: Connect the CD-ROM/DVD- ROM drive
- Step 7: Connect to power supply
- Connecting Related Peripherals
- Connecting Speaker Systems
- Connecting External Consumer Devices
- Positioning Your Speakers
- Installation Steps
- Installing Software
- Sound Blaster Audigy Applications
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Applications
- Creative Taskbar
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Online Quick Start (English only)
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Experience (English only)
- EAX ADVANCED HD™ Gold Mine Experience (English only)
- Creative Diagnostics
- Creative Surround Mixer
- Creative AudioHQ
- Creative WaveStudio
- Creative PlayCenter
- Creative Recorder
- Vienna SoundFont Studio
- Creative MiniDisc Center
- Creative RemoteCenter
- Creative Restore Defaults
- Using Applications
- General Specifications
- Troubleshooting & FAQ’s
- Problems Installing Software
- Problems with Sound
- Problems with File Transfers on Some VIA Chipset Motherboards
- Insufficient SoundFont Cache
- Problems With Joysticks
- Problems with Multiple Audio Devices
- Problems with Sound Blaster Live! Series or Sound Blaster PCI512 card
- Resolving I/O Conflicts
- Problems with Encore DVD Player (not included)
- Problems with Software DVD Player (not included)
- Problems with DV driver for Windows 98 SE/ 2000/Me/XP
- Problems with installing non- Creative applications
- Problems with Digital Devices
- Technical Support
Introduction ii
What is EAX
ADVANCED HD™?
EAX ADVANCED HD™ technology delivers advanced audio functionality and performance, adding
sophisticated audio processing capabilities, interactive and high-definition sound to digital entertainment.
EAX ADVANCED HD™ technologies are implemented across a range of audio hardware solutions,
system software, application software, and application programming interfaces (APIs) from Creative.
With EAX ADVANCED HD™ technology-enabled products, you can shape and customize your audio
experience. EAX ADVANCED HD™ technology also offers advanced audio capabilities for music
composition and sound design. EAX ADVANCED HD™ technology is redefining the audio experience.
Driven by a new and improved Digital Signal Processing engine, Sound Blaster Audigy offers twice the
effects processing power of Sound Blaster Live!, giving you even more realism in gaming, music, and
movies. Sound Blaster Audigy delivers superior audio fidelity and sophisticated reverb effects for an
unsurpassed digital entertainment experience. Additionally, advanced new algorithms offer powerful 3D
localization effects for all speaker configurations.
In games, experience multiple audio effects, each positioned in 3D. Enjoy Dolby Digital 5.1 audio with
your movies. Record and enjoy your favorite MP3 songs with a “concert hall”, “jazz club” or other
environment effect. Jam with your guitar, adding EAX ADVANCED HD™ effects like overdrive and
distortion to your sound...or plug in a microphone and morph your voice into something wild! You’ll be
amazed at the difference EAX ADVANCED HD™ makes.
EAX ADVANCED HD™ technologies add interactive, high-definition, high-fidelity audio to Sound
Blaster Audigy. With double the EAX ADVANCED HD™ audio processing power, 3D positional audio
technology, audio environment effects, 5.1 analog and digital sound, and SoundFont digital instrument
libraries, sonic superiority in gaming, music, and movies is assured.