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 5-6
Creating multiple
effects
Sound Blaster Audigy comes with a variety of effects that are programmable. You can literally create
thousands of reverb and other special effects in EAX ADVANCED HD™ Control, which can be
accessed from Creative Surround Mixer.
Creating and playing
back SoundFonts
With Creative's SoundFont technology, you have limitless sound creation possibilities for use with your
own music. Create your own SoundFont banks in Vienna SF Studio or use ReCycle Lite to convert drum
loops to Soundfont banks, and then use them in your bundled MIDI sequencer.
Internet
Entertainment
Encoding CD songs
to MP3 format
With Creative PlayCenter, you can encode and record all your favorite CD songs into your computer’s hard
drive, so that you have a database of customized song lists.
Downloading and
playing MP3 songs
With Creative PlayCenter, you can add current songs to your database by downloading them from various
sites on the Internet.
Playing MP3 songs
with EAX
ADVANCED HD™
Use Creative PlayCenter to create MP3 renditions with multi-dimensional and multi-textured realism by
adding environments such as “concert hall” or “bathroom”! You can share these enhanced MP3 songs,
even with someone who does not own a Sound Blaster Audigy card.
Mixing MP3 songs
Download MP3 songs and then use MixMeister to create party mixes like a DJ. MixMeister takes care of
the details while you dance all night, and allows you to fine-tune your mixes whenever you want.