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 4-6
Creative
WaveStudio
Creative WaveStudio allows you to perform the following sound editing functions easily:
❑ Play, edit, and record 8-bit (tape quality) and 16-bit (CD quality) wave data
❑ Enhance wave data or create unique sounds with various special effects and editing operations such as
reverse, echo, mute, pan, cut, copy, and paste
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Open and edit several audio files at the same time
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Open Raw (.RAW) and MP3 (.MP3) data files
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For more information and usage details on Creative WaveStudio, refer to its Online Help.
Creative
PlayCenter
Creative PlayCenter is a revolutionary audio CD and digital audio (such as WAV, MP3 or WMA) player.
Besides managing your favorite digital audio files on your computer, it is also an integrated MP3/WMA
encoder for ripping audio CD tracks into compressed digital audio files. It can encode tracks many times
faster than normal play speed and up to 320 kbps (for MP3).
For more information and usage details on Creative PlayCenter, refer to its Online Help.
Note: Audio files that are secured through Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology
can only be played back on an MS DRM supported audio player such as Creative PlayCenter. For
security against unauthorized duplication, Microsoft has advised the disabling of any digital or SPDIF
output from the audio card. During playback of the protected files, Sound Blaster Audigy will disable
its digital output including the SPDIF output from the Audigy Drive.
Creative
Recorder
Recorder allows you to record sounds or music from various input sources like the microphone or Audio
CD, and save them as Wave (.WAV) files. For more information and usage details on Creative Recorder,
refer to its Online Help.
Vienna
SoundFont
Studio
If you are new to desktop music, Vienna SoundFont Studio is just what you need to produce your first
masterpiece. This is a professional sampler that allows you to create sounds (saved as SoundFont banks),
and edit them in any way you wish! If you are already familiar with Vienna SoundFont Studio, you will
be glad to know that this latest version (Version 2.3) makes creating SoundFont banks easier than ever.
Now, you can
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Double-click a sample and the assigned Wave editor will automatically be started.