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

Sound Blaster Audigy Applications 4-5
SoundFont Control
SoundFont Control allows you to configure MIDI banks with SoundFont, DLS, Wave and instrument
files, as well as set the caching algorithm and space.
For more information and usage details on SoundFont Control, refer to its Online Help.
Device Controls
Device Controls lets you configure various features of your audio devices. Device controls also allows you
to select the sampling rate of your SPDIF output and enable the SPDIF Bypass feature for your digital
inputs and outputs.
For more information and usage details on Device Controls, refer to its Online Help.
Creative Keyboard
Creative Keyboard is a virtual keyboard that allows you to audition or play musical notes produced
through MIDI devices. To edit the sound, use Vienna SoundFont Studio or another sound editor.
MIDI Input
You can use external MIDI input devices to audition your MIDI banks and instruments. First, connect a
MIDI input device to your audio card and then select that device in Creative Keyboard.
EAX ADVANCED
HD™ Control
EAX ADVANCED HD™ Control allows you to configure the Sound Blaster Audigy processor’s effects
engine.
It allows you to specify in detail the components that make up an audio effect.
It promises to deliver sounds that are so life-like, you can almost see them! It is the computer industry's
first system to recreate and deliver real-world, interactive audio experiences in games, music, and other
audio applications. These audio effects take your computer beyond home-theatre quality, immersing you
in sound so vivid your imagination can almost "see it". The effects go beyond today's surround-sound and
3D positional audio and actually model an environment by taking into account room size, acoustic
properties, reverb, echo and many other effects that create a real-world experience.
For more information and usage details on EAX ADVANCED HD™ Control, refer to its Online Help.