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

General Specifications A-4
Creative Multi Speaker
Surround
™
(CMSS
™
)
❑ Multispeaker technology
❑ Upmixes mono or stereo sources to 5.1 channels
❑ Professional-quality panning and mixing algorithm
SB1394
™
Compatibility
❑ Compliant to IEEE 1394a specification
❑
Supports data rates of 100, 200, and 400 Mbps
❑
Supports up to 63 IEEE 1394 compatible devices in a daisy-chain configuration
Connectivity
Sound Blaster
Audigy card
Audio Inputs
❑
One line-level analog Line input via stereo jack on rear bracket
❑
One mono Microphone analog input via stereo jack on rear bracket
❑
CD_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
❑
AUX_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
❑
TAD line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
❑
CD_SPDIF digital input via 2-pin Molex connector on card
Audio Outputs
❑
ANALOG/DIGITAL OUT via 4-pole 3.5 mm minijack on rear bracket
• ANALOG OUT: Center and Subwoofer channels
• DIGITAL OUT: Front, Rear, Center and Subwoofer SPDIF digital outputs
❑
Two line-level analog outputs via stereo jacks on rear bracket, Front and Rear Line-Outs 1 and 2
❑
Stereo headphone (32-ohm load) support on Front Line-Out