Talk:Sound Blaster Live!

4.1 controversy

I've been thinking about this so-called controversy or mis-marketing. Is there any advantage to doing the frequency filtering on the sound card vs. the speakers? It's still 4.1 audio, even if it's not done by the sound card. Games themselves don't filter out the low frequencies to a special channel, so it's not like there's data loss between the game and the speakers. Games see a 4.1 setup as "quadraphonic" I belie --Swaaye 17:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Pictures

Added very high quality / high resolution images. (Spc01)

Live! Player 1024 etc.

This page does not mention the revision of the Live! series after the initial release. The revision added a SPDIF-Out to the series (Live! cards had none before) and the card could use 1024 synth voices instead of previously 512(?). The newer model was sold as "Live! Player 1024" in Europe (retail version was a CT4760, bulk version was a CT4830), different names in other regions. Corrent me if I'm wrong. --Keelhaul 18:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Adding a section

Somebody should add a section relating to problems installing driver for SB Live! series on winxp using VIA & some nForce chipsets motherboards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.51.34.232 (talk) 12:18, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Also problems related to stuttering sound from some win2000 machines

minor point about Value

This statement is factual but incorrect. My CT4830, which is *definitely* a Value card, has the CD_SPDIF connector on it, and iirc there are other differences between it and the original Value —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.70.206 (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

KX drivers WDM/Emu APS heritage

Even though the KX drivers come with WDM drivers as well, their main purpose is to provide native ASIO drivers for music production and a frontend to the DSPs on the supported cards. Secondly, the article could mention that the SB-Live was actually an only slightly altered "Emu APS", a professional soundcard sold before Creative swallowed Emu entirely. The first alternative driver package for the Live! was a "hacked" version of the APS driver and control software ("APS Live!"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.171.39.151 (talk) 11:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hardware adresses needed to acess soundboard directly. We intend to split Water into hydorgen with resonance with soundblaster! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.251.43.184 (talk) 00:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I plan to completely remove this whole sentence:

"The drivers for APS are those being decompiled for creating the superb Kx Project making ASIO available for the entire Live! series and everything containing the EMU10K1 chipset."

It's simply untrue. The kX Project had/has nothing to do either with "APS drivers" or with their "decompilation". I'm not sure if the kX needs any special mentioning in the article (external link would be enough i guess, just as it is now), but the quoted sentence is just nonsense. Anyone to object? Max M. (talk) 14:56, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

- Removed. Max M. (talk) 13:40, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

OS vs Hardware, who supports who???

The article states:

"Unfortunately the card doesn't support Windows Vista."

But the card came years before Vista. And electronics hardware doesn't get changed for support, it gets swapped out and replaced. Vista was developed later and it's developers placed support in for whatever hardware they wished to... But if that was supposed to be a reference to the software drivers (or lack thereof) then say so!

Regardless this article's statement over support is wrong-minded, misleading, and/or incorrect.

Any of the following would be correct:

"Unfortunately Windows Vista doesn't support the card."
"Unfortunately the card doesn't have new drivers that support Windows Vista."
"Unfortunately support for the card (new drivers) stopped after Windows XP."

! 209.239.5.63 (talk) 19:45, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

What does this mean?

"EMU APS (Audio Production Studio)

This was a professional version but under E-mu production line,[...]"

OK, a pro. version, no problem; but, the latter half has me baffled. I was trying to clean up the text, but I left this puzzler unchanged, because I couldn't figure out what the author meant. Was it part of the E-mu product line, or was it manufactured in a production line primarily used for making E-mu branded products, or something else? Nikevich (talk) 02:59, 1 December 2009 (UTC)