All user reviews of 3/5 for the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum

CHARACTERISTICS:
- PCI Card Format
- Analogue connectivity (mini-jack / jack / RCA), numrique (optical and SPDIF), noon (In + Out Port compatible games)
- 48khz sampling - and 16-bit Analog 96Khz - 24-bit numrique
- Platforms: Win 98SE ok ... Win 2K few bugs ... Win XP ... lot of problem.
- Applications: package + Creative + Wavelab Lite Cubasis Recycle + + lite Storm

UTILIZATION

- Installation without problems for me. Some users have experienced error messages, or around blockers. Visit the forum Crative if you're not afraid to be afraid ... LOL

- Incompatibility with partiellle of soundfonts audigy: problem of non loops rsolus date (04/mars/2002).
- Incompatibility with EAX total Cubasis, whether in audio or MIDI (short c no use that to play this thing).
- Incompatibility of the card with the VIA chipsets
- Configuration = white hair, but c is specific to the activity area of ​​the sound is not easy .... numrique
- Installation and use? what books?? numrique a little help (HLP HTML PDF ...). A good guide trs music, well done. But I think it lacks the essential (unless I did not find??) Find a manual full of references. Both the card software on the operator.

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers. That is the PCH (not cute at all) of the Audigy. It seems that drvers do not exploit the total capabilities poustouflantes card, let alone the new environments such Systm XP.
The craziest is that the problem encountered by users are diverse and Varis. Nanmoins bullet points are:
- The ASIO drivers (c certainly works but often with noise)
- The driver who soundfont rgresse within the range of Sound Blaster.
- The compatibility with XP (according to the variables and partial configurations)

These drivers are not being frquemment days, Crative prparant a so-called stable version. Too bad because no beta version, users can not even participate in their evolution and remain blocked until the goodwill of crative.

From a software point of view, any set of books unlike antrieures versions. Software Crative seem functional, ergonomics is relative.
Software companions, version 'Lite' are extremely perverse. Indeed, they are versions of major releases flanges pay. They always lack the functionality that small comber your expectations. An example? Cubasis VST compressor does not have just one reverb, one Dlay, and a chorus. Now the compressor is the basis for any mixing, and has been for over 20 years.

I bought this product to make music, compose, and record layouts, personally. I am 50 hours, I always freezes on a particular point (Asio, Soundfount, Crash, ...)
We can certainly get 4ms latency, but we want to combine multiple audio tracks, it's back to 20ms to avoid unwanted noise. Try to see to sing (the song always comes last) and with a return DCAL dfform: impossible!

The craziest in this story is the blurring of the causes, and more on solutions. Not drive fast enough? Ram not enough? Driver? Asio config? In short, we spent hours clicking, closing, re ...
I still hope ...
My only Russianness own is today ... Stereo track tape accompaniment, and another song stro ...

My config is a PIII-500 128MB SDRAM-133 HD A fast IDE 9GB.

OVERALL OPINION

I have the card for 15 days.

The strongest feeling is the distortion between the marketing argument (EAX HD / 4GB of sound are 2.1 / 24 audio tracks) and Ralite: EAX is not a musician, the soudfonts are gross (not loop of clean, no effect), after 3 audio tracks on the latency or loss is the quality.

I have not tried before. This kind of product does not grow on trees. Specializing in computer shops are not musical trs 'Crative' (we understand), and structures gnralistes to know anything ...
I document ...
I wanted soundfont midi + + Registration numrique. C'tait my only choice. Well, almost: the version antrieure 'Live' seems stable !!!!!!

What is poustouflant, it is the soundfont (256MB leaving 64 just for them. I can not test the bank Fully FLUID 3.0 (freeware, thank you Franck !!!), but the samples sound really. ..
Finally, violin (acoustic) worthy of the name, and drum kits that have the attack.
If my problem is rsolvent, the report qualitprix is ​​excellent (- 250 of tax). Otherwise, I think I would have given up on MIDI and soundfont to see at TerraTec. Diffrent leaves fill my two other needs.

With the exprience, I waited three months before diving, bein ... I waited 3 more months ... to finally hear that drivers taient ok.

Prciser I will return later if I give up or whether I found my way in the use of this product.

J'espre my eyes, not pro, the INTERESTED acqureurs = increasing.