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
Using Applications 5-3
Playing MP3 or
WMA files
Creative PlayCenter supports and plays MP3 and WMA files.
Playing back Wave
and CD Audio files
Use Creative PlayCenter to play back both Wave and CD Audio files. WAV is the format for digital audio
files on the Windows operating platform. CD Audio refers to audio compact discs that can be played on
your CD-ROM drive.
Playing MIDI files
MIDI (*.MID) is a music format that uses a synthesizer for playback. Use Creative PlayCenter or the
MIDI sequencer in the Sound Blaster Audigy Installation CD for playing MIDI files. To achieve the best
quality, load the 8MB GM bank in the SoundFont applet found in the AudioHQ group.
Creating non-
General-MIDI-
compliant files
Many musicians have created music files that use exotic or non-regular instrument (non General MIDI
compliant) using Vienna Soundfont Studio. These instruments are stored in SoundFont banks. Such
MIDI files can be played back using Creative PlayCenter. The Sound Blaster Audigy Installation CD
contains many MIDI demos that use high quality SoundFont banks.
Digital
Entertainment
Watching surround
movies
If you want to enjoy high quality movie entertainment, ensure you have good speakers. If you have a 4-
or 5-speaker system connected to your Sound Blaster Audigy, configure your speaker setup in Creative
Surround Mixer. For DVD movies, it is recommended that you purchase Creative PC-DVD Encore, or a
software DVD application as well as Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital Speakers.
Compiling personal
albums
You can compile albums containing CD Audio, WAV or MIDI files using Creative PlayCenter.