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I just purchased a new notebook, my first. I included an Audigy 2 ZS with the order because the sales person?led me to believe?that I could get superior sound from the notebook when I plugged a couple of external speakers to the card. I thought I would eventually run down to Fry's and get a couple of speakers. I finally got around to opening the Audigy package and installing the software and drivers. The sound through the accompanying earpieces is great, but when I read the minimal documentation regarding how to hook up speakers, I came to the sinking realization that I didn't really know what the heck I had purchased. It appears, at least from the Quick Start diagrams, that you can't just plug a couple of speakers into the card and, wholla!, have this great sound. You have to plug the card into an?powered ?sound system or home theater in order to enjoy external speakers. After all that, I guess my question is this. Is there a set of small speakers of some kind that you can plug directly into the 2 ZS?I wanted portability, something I could travel with. ?I have looked over the diagrams and Knowledge Base speaker stuff and it doesn't even cover such an approach. Thanks for any enlightenment you might be able to provide this confused newbie.

? A soundfont cannot contain alle drumkits, and it is not nessecary at all. I dont know a soundfont bank wich contains a complete set of drumkits, too. There are only some soundfonts like the crysis soundfont (to big for its "bad" quality) wich have some dummy-drumkits/ entrys or slightly modified sounds for each than usual. If all drumnkits would be stored in high-quality, the soundfont would be huge... Every synth i know uses the standard drumkit, if the chosen one is not existent. This is not optimal, but it will guarantee, that the the MIDI file or Program/ game will work. The KXDrivers wont do this. SO they are not useable for General MIDI. Only for MIDIs and soundfonts fitting together. But thats not the point of General MIDI. CMSS isnt working with these drivers, too. Dolby decoding/ encoding isnt possible with them, either. These drivers are not bad, but if you want a completely working card, KXdrivers are worthless.

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