Creative extigy manual

Die Wartung ist am Sonntag, Januar , von 9. Ende der Servicezeit. Alle Downloads Der neuste Download, der fur verfugbar ist, wird unten aufgelistet. Alle Downloads. Alle Application Treiber. Dateiname: DMUpdate. A-4 Troubleshooting Problems Installing Software B-1 Problems with Sound B-2 Index Page 7 Introduction Installation is truly hassle-free audio entertainment through the USB port, and the bundled Creative PlayCenter 3 is a one-stop digital music center that lets you play, record, organize and burn your own audio CDs easily.

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Rear Panel Rear Out jack Connects to powered speakers or an external amplifier for audio output. On Audio Mixer, make sure that the Mute check box under the Volume slider is clear.

Otherwise, click the check box. Page Remote Control Functions Pressing menu page. Goes to the To resume normal previous track playback, press the or menu page.

About Sound Blaster Extigy Page 19 Press repeatedly for more menus. Figure Other Buttons on the Remote Control. Desktop Computer Power outlet Note: Do this last. Installing and Using Sound Blaster Extigy Page Software Installation 3. Place Sound Blaster Extigy on a flat surface, plug the AC adapter into a power outlet and turn on the outlet, if needed. Windows automatically detects the device. Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop.

Windows 98 SE and 2. On the menu that appears, click Properties. Page Connecting Peripherals Sound Blaster Extigy will undoubtedly give you endless hours of listening pleasure.

Connecting Figure shows you how to connect peripherals to your Sound Blaster Extigy to Peripherals optimize your enjoyment. Page Recording And Content Authoring Sound Blaster Extigy supports digital audio connectivity for perfect Recording and recordings and content authoring. Figure shows you how to connect digital Content peripherals to your Sound Blaster Extigy. Authoring MiniDisc recorder A minijack-to-coaxial adapter is required to connect your digital device to the Digital Out jack. If you have a 5.

Insert the Slide back the batteries. They can't be used in a real time mode or from other applications. This plug-ins work with considerable time delay so we suppose that the effects except reverb have software nature like Winamp's DSP plug-ins. The latter function, Audio Clean-Up, will be useful for improving almost killed MP3 files at a bitrate of Kbit and lower.

Creative Remote Center controls the Extigy with a remote control. The remote control is simple and clear, buttons are easy to press, and it's possible to navigate easily even in the dark, for example, when you watch DVD movies. Just insert the disc into the drive and it will take just a couple of seconds for the auto scanning to group all available media files into folders according to extensions and names.

If there are ID3 tags, it's possible to group music according to performers and genres. The monitor will display big letters, and it will be easy to navigate. The digital scheme can be changed for another. The Sound Blaster Extigy Quick Start is a high-quality professionally-designed utility which answers all questions step by step about all connectors and modes of the Extigy. Sound Blaster Extigy Tour is a dynamic presentation which explains all advantages of the Extigy.

Here are some other programs which haven't changed since the SB Live! Additional utilities on the CD Audio Stream Recorder is a utility that captures and records an audio stream in case of broadcasting via the Internet, for example, when you are listening to radio stations. You can also structure records into playlists and then transfer files to a Creative NOMAD player connected to a computer.

The utility works with any cards of the Live! Software features According to the CoolEdit Pro diagnostics, the Extigy supports all known sound recording and reproduction formats.

Like Live! According to the DirectSound diagnostics, the Extigy has the following hardware capabilities: Creative SoundBlaster Extigy 1 Primary buffer available 59 Total 2D hardware mixing buffers available 59 Static 2D hardware mixing buffers available 59 Streaming 2D hardware mixing buffers available 59 Total 3D hardware buffers available 59 Static 3D hardware buffers available 59 Streaming 3D hardware buffers available 0 Total bytes sound card memory static buffer storage Hz Max sample rate supported by secondary buffers Min sample rate supported by secondary buffers DirectSound acceleration: available DirectSound3D acceleration: available Let's compare them with characteristics of the Audigy sound card.

Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 1 Primary buffer available 64 Total 2D hardware mixing buffers available 64 Static 2D hardware mixing buffers available 64 Streaming 2D hardware mixing buffers available 32 Total 3D hardware buffers available 32 Static 3D hardware buffers available 32 Streaming 3D hardware buffers available Total bytes sound card memory static buffer storage Hz Max sample rate supported by secondary buffers Min sample rate supported by secondary buffers DirectSound acceleration: available DirectSound3D acceleration: available Apart from the DirectSound3D, the Extigy supports and accelerates extensions of this API on a hardware level: EAX 1.

As usual, there is wrapper of the A3D 1. We estimated quality of positioning and reverberation in the Sensaura Player3D program. The reverb is excellent. However, there are some problems, namely pops, with positioning of sound sources of the Extigy, especially in the nearest zone. By the way, when moved along the vertical plane the sound alters; it means that the Extigy and Audigy cards have normal realization of vertical positioning of sound, whatever opponents of Creative and cards with the EAX support may say.

Unfortunately, the Extigy with the current drivers doesn't have preset "headphones", that is why quality of sound positioning in the headphones yields to the Audigy cards. However, you shouldn't worry about it now because today there are, in fact, no well-known games supporting the EAX Advanced HD, though some hits Soldier of Fortune 2, Hitman 2 are expected by the end of Hardware capabilities The Extigy uses a special chipset of the same name.

A DSP installed on the card is meant for hardware processing and mixing of sound streams. Contrary to the Live! In all other respects, the filling of the Extigy is identical to the Audigy.

That is why its characteristics in the 96kHz mode yield to the 48kHz one. However, behind the codecs are buffer operational amplifiers which adjust a signal with a load and protects the codec from overload, and different discrete elements, including feed-through electrolytic capacitors. Besides, there are some digital distortions in a signal from algorithms of mixing and sampling rate conversion SRC.

That is why a signal coming from computer sound devices can be considered high-quality in regard to Hi-Fi and Hi-End equipment.

Do not be carried away by the results. First of all, it was the Reference Sample. So, what about a low noise at any signal level? The conversion formula 20 log 0. It is interesting that now, when Creative made a transition to I2S codecs, the company explains that the most of other sound cards and mainboards equipped with AC'97 codecs do not allow for high-quality sound.

The most ridiculous thing is that there is one AC'97 codec on the Audigy card. Some once brilliant Live! The specification gives quite good parameters, much better than for linear-ins of different AC'97 codecs. Unfortunately, the input-to-output measurements for inexpensive sound cards and devices are unsuccessful.

And first of all, because quality of a linear-in is often worse than that of a linear-out, and the input is rarely used by users. However, if a device is of poor quality, it will be noticeable in the beginning. We used the professional EgoSys WaveTerminal sound card as a signal source and receiver to obtain precise relative results and choose an optimal signal level applied to and read from the tested device.

The measurements were carried out under the Windows ME. This is a basic mode for any sound card. For the Extigy you can set manually a frequency of audio data transfer via a USB bus, as well as a primary sampling rate in which all other frequencies will be converted in a real time mode. Creative advertises this option as a possibility to lower load on a processor and a USB bus.

Unfortunately, But anyway, for Creative soundcards you'd better choose 48 kHz for the digital output to avoid unnecessary resampling and problems of synchronization when a digital signal is transferred.

As compared to the Audigy, intermodulation distortions have fallen from 1. The nonlinear ones are now 0. The spectrograms prove it. IMD, Audigy vs. The cards have different analog circuits of the front channels. The Audigy has a powerful operational amplifier to maintain the load when low-resistance headphones are connected. That is why quality of a front channel is traditionally lower than of a rear one. There are even special unnoficial KX drivers which, unfortunately, do not support DirectSound where the channels are interchanged by default.

To check it we soldered the contacts right to the output pins of the DAC of the Audigy, to a front channel. They allowed us to compare the sound by switching between the codec and the front output. I recommend to repeat the experiment only to users who know radio electronics quite well.

The difference is amazing: 0. Though the difference is not very audible.