Audigy NX 2 ASIO in Cub

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I have a problem loading ASIO drivers with my Audigy 2 NX / USB sound card.
My PC is a HP Pavillion ZD8000 laptop, with 52Mb RAM and a 60GB dri've,Windows XP home.
I am trying to select the Creative ASIO driver from within the Cubase LE VSTi multitrack setup dialogue.
I went into the VST/device setup and sure enough there was the creativeASIO driver in the drop-down. However, when I try to select it it saysthat the driver could not be loaded. I have run the update mechanismfrom the Creative site and it has updated all my drivers, so I have thelatest ones installed.
Does anybody know if there is anything else I need to setup to allow meselect the Creative ASIO driver?
My version of Cubase LE is .07...
Thanks.

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I have a problem loading ASIO drivers with my Audigy 2 NX / USB sound card.My PC is a HP Pavillion ZD8000 laptop, with 52Mb RAM and a 60GB dri've,
Windows XP home.
I am trying to select the Creative ASIO driver from within the Cubase LE VSTi multitrack setup dialogue.
I went into the VST/device setup and sure enough there was the creative
ASIO driver in the drop-down. However, when I try to select it it says
that the driver could not be loaded. I have run the update mechanism
from the Creative site and it has updated all my drivers, so I have the
latest ones installed.
Does anybody know if there is anything else I need to setup to allow me
select the Creative ASIO driver?
My version of Cubase LE is .07...
Thanks.
Is ASIO on NX 'locked' to 6-bit/48 kHz or is there also 24-bit/96 kHz resolution available?
Try to set driver bit-depth to 6 and samplerate to 48 kHz on Cubase.
Have you tried USB-ASIO drivers? There is a demo available.
Another driver(s) to try out are Asio4All and Asio2KS. These are WDM/KS 'wrappers' but should work with low latencies too (as required on recording).
.jtpMessage Edited by jutapa on 09-06-2005 06:3 AM

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Asio Inputs
At 16 bit 48KHz, Sound Blaster Audigy 2’s ASIO driver also supports 12 simultaneous sample-synchronous, low-latency ASIO audio inputs that are sample-synchronised to the ASIO outputs listed above. Again, there are more sources available than merely the physical inputs of the system, and these are mapped as follows:
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!! My NOTE: AnalogMix(Line-In/Aux-In/analog CDAudio/PC (W-U-H)/TAD/...)
• ASIO inputs 3 and 4 (Mix Pre EQ) This records a simple downmix of all audio coming out of the sound card, without EAX effects, regardless of what speaker mode you are in. (This isn’t a physical input);
!! My NOTE: (this functions as "What U Hear")
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• ASIO inputs 7 and 8 are "Mix (Post EQ Rear L/R) ;
• ASIO inputs 9 and 10 are "Mix (Post EQ Centre/Sub)" ;
• ASIO inputs 11 and 12 are "Mix (Post EQ Rear Centre L/R)" ;
these virtual inputs allow tracks output to the onboard Creative DSP Spatializer and main FX and EQ, to be recorded to separate tracks to allow you to add a virtualised surround feel to your stereo mix.
• ASIO inputs 13 and 14 come from the S/PDIF input on the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card. This input includes automatic sample-rate conversion, enabling any consumer digital source to be used. (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 always clocks from its own internal sampling clock);
• ASIO inputs 15 and 16 come from the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 eX Drive Line In 1/Mic In stereo input;
• ASIO inputs 17 and 18 come from the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 eX Drive Line In 3 stereo input;
(note that the order and naming conventions of the Asio I/O is subject to change)
Asio Outputs
At 16-bit 48KHz, the ASIO driver supports up to 14 simultaneous, sample-synchronous, low-latency ASIO audio outputs, which, as you may have noticed, is more than the number of physical outputs. This is because the ASIO driver can access a number of internal points (virtual inputs and outputs) within the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 hardware environment, as well as the physical inputs and outputs. One function of these virtual outputs is to allow several different signal sources to be routed and/or mixed via Sound Blaster Audigy 2’s internal effects.
Physically, the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX Card has the following outputs which are all located at the rear of the card:
Analog
• Front left and right (rear of the card);
• Real left and right (rear of the card);
• Front Centre, Rear Centre and LFE (sub) (rear of the card);
Digital
• S/PDIF out - Optical and Coaxial (front and rear of the Creative Audigy 2 eX Drive respectively)
ASIO can route to all of these physical outputs directly, as long as the host software supports this facility.
The ASIO outputs are identified as follows:
• Asio outputs 1 and 2 (Wave/MP3) go via the stereo upmix path, internal to the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card. Depending on the speaker mode and the CMSS (Creative Multi-Speaker Surround) settings, they may also be output to the rear and centre speaker physical outputs. For example, if CMSS is active and the card is set to 6.1mode, the audio is processed to make it sound more natural and some of the signal is routed to the centre speaker. Furthermore, EAX CONTROL may be used to add effects to the "WAV/MP3" path, in which case whatever effects are assigned there will affect the signals being output;
• ASIO outputs 3 and 4 (front left/right) feed the left and right output sockets at the rear of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX card directly. These are the outputs that would be used for most desktop recording work, where the desired final product is mostly a conventional stereo mix;
• ASIO outputs 5 and 6 (rear left/right) feed the left and right surround outputs on the rear of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX card directly (when the card is set to 4/5 or 6.1 speaker mode), although these can simply be utilised as an additional stereo pair by software that can access them. They don’t have to be used for surround purposes
• ASIO outputs 7 and 8 (centre/LFE) feed the centre and subwoofer outputs on the rear of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX card directly (when the card is set to 5.1 speaker mode), although these too can simply be utilised as an additional stereo pair by software that can access them and also don’t have to be used for surround purposes;
• ASIO outputs 9 and 10 (rear centre) feed the Rear centre output on the rear of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX card directly (when the card is set to 5/6.1 speaker mode), although this too can simply be utilised as an additional mono output by software that can access it and also doesn’t have to be used for surround purposes. As Asio outputs are seen as pairs the single mono output which is part of the Centre/Sub/Rear Center triple jack output must be addressed as a stereo pair. Simply pan hard Left when mixing. You will need to arm yourself with a three pole minijack to 3 RCA mono outs cable to make best use of this output.
• ASIO outputs 11 and 12 (FX Slot 1/2) allow you to send a specific channel from your VST mixer directly to one of the Audigy 2’s EAX hardware effects. 4 effects can be added to the EAX Control panel, and this buss accesses the first two as mono sends. Use your track’s Effects Send Destinations to select “FX Slot 1/2 Left” for Effect 1 (Reverb) and “FX Slot 1/2 Right” for Effect 2 (Chorus). Set the send level in Pre Fader mode to allow you to control the send level independent of the channel’s dry volume. Then use the EAX Control panel to select the required Reverb preset, tweak as desired and then configure the Effect levels under the “Source” tab, with Source set to “WAVE/MP3”. You can then create a new track in Cubasis VST CE with the input set to Post EQ which will allow you to monitor the return signal from the Effect and also record it to that track. This new “wet” effected track can be played back alongside your original dry track.
• ASIO outputs 13 and 14 (FX Slot 3/4) use the same principle as with Slot 1/2 except that the effects in Slots 3 and 4 are user selectable. A step by step guide of how to use these busses is given below.
Note that when you select “SB Audigy Asio 24/96” for 24 bit 96 Recording, you will only have access to the 4 Asio pairs which correspond to the analog ouputs on the rear of the card. This, however, is perfect for 6.1 output.
Above, and a lot more valuable information can be found in online help file called "Music Creation Guide" which can be found @
- installation path; C:\Program Files\Creative\_your_card_model_\Music Creation Guide\
- path on original installation CD; \Audio\Setup\GuideBk\ (select language)
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AnalogMix L/R for the Line-In, (Aux-In, analog CDAudio, PC (WUH), TAD)
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jutapa
Message Edited by jutapa on 07-25-2006 11:25 AM

As I said before, this surely is a ASIO host related problem. All available analogue inputs refer to a certain physical input of your soundcard. Here is what to do:
. Open the "VST Connections" menu and enable the analogue inputs that are related to your Mic In.
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Has the drivers been changed during the years so actually can't record when using ASIO 24/96 driver? If it wasn?t for the fact that it didn?t work on my XP?system either I would have thought it was a Windows 7 issue.

Gorilla wrote:
For some reason I have an error message in ADIC Pro 5.
I have an Audigy Platimum Pro and I changed the audio devie type in the Preferences to SB Audigy 2 ZS ASIO 24/96 (FF40), but when I try to record and check the little monitor bar, I can see the levels, but I hear no sound. If I uncheck it, I see no levels, but I hear sound. I cannot record because of this sicne when I hear the sound nothing is getting recorder. I doublechecket everything but I cannot solve the problem. Please help me if you can
Thanks
Peter
Hmmm.. What the error message says?
Which input source you have selected to record from?
Have you selected the output port(s)?
Are project samplerate and bit-depth set to 24/96?
Does this issue occur when ASIO res is set to 16-bit/48 kHZ?
Is tehere a setting for monitoring on ACID audio/global properties (other than the ON/OFF found on every track)?
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Isidro wrote:
Does SB audigy LS have ASIO driver, if yes, how can I configure to appear in CUBASE SX 3?
If it uses the same drivers w/ Li've! 24-bit then no ASIO support (look from CT support downloads) --> you need to use Asio4All instead.
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Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro - GigaWorks 7.1 - Tracktor DJ Studio - Setup help ple

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SB Audigy 2 ZS ASIO 24/96 [ECCO]
Creative ASIO
DS SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [ ECCO]
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Im obviously not understanding something - and im sure im not the first person to attempt this.
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Regards
Simon

I think what you're missing is that the headphone out is really connected to the same signal as the front speakers out. The assumption is that you're either going to be listening to the headphones or to the speakers. Tracktor can probably use the soundcard channels independently, but anything directed to the headphones also goes to the front speaker output. I believe you can set things up so plugging in the headphones will mute the speakers, but that doesn't help the front speakers play a different signal than the headphones.
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Can Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Record in 24/96 or N

The documentation says it can but I haven't found a way to do it yet. I've tried the Audigy included software, Audition and Goldwave. Looking at the spectral's in Audition the wavs seem to be resampled to 48kHz or less. I'm using the analog inputs (RCAs out from my phono preamp to RCAs in on the front panel.
Does anyone know how or know if it's possible to record in 24/96 with this card?
Thx!

jutapa wrote:
Now you know the difference between pro and consumer audio systems .
Well, checked the spectrum of 24/96 wav file recorded using Hermann Seib's VSTHost/Asio4all and an old std Audigy 2 card a while back ...
... so it just looks like your recording settings are wrong or those ADCs found in Audigy 2 Zs I/O Dri've are not 24/96 compatible (IIRC, there are either TI/BB 804 ADCs (up to 24/92) (or Wolfson 8775 (up to 24/96)) but, are those implemented for more than 48kHz, that I can't say?). Have you checked if the Line-In in PCI card gives you same results you get through I/O Dri've? If it gives then your recording settings are simply wrong.
jutapa
Refs:
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/creative-audigy2-zs/index.html
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/creative-audigy2-platinum-ex/index.html
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,697,38272,00.asp
etc.Message Edited by jutapa on 06-03-200703:45 PM
I tried using the Line-In input on the back of the PCI card with the same results. I'm pretty positi've I have set the correct settings for recording 24/96 each and every place possible. Just tried Wavelab and it also complains that the "audio card input could not be set to this sample rate 96000Hz". It also issues that same complaint when trying to record 24/96 in..... Creative ASIO, Audigy 2 ZS ASIO 24/96 (9800) and Audigy 2 ZS ASIO (9800).
I'm really thinking that this card isn't capable of recording in 24/96. If it is I'd sure like to hear from someone who has done it.
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And digging around a little I've found stuff like this.....
24-Bit/96kHz
The Audigy 2 features high quality Cirrus Logic CS4832 DACs, a considerable improvement over the Audigy and Extigy.
The Audigy 2 is indeed a more capable card when it comes to 24/96, it can actually playback & record such sources without resampling with a notable caveat to this when the effects engine comes into the scene; the Effects Engine of the Audigy 2 still works at 48kHz meaning that resampling will occur in such occasions. While this isn?t particularly stated anywhere in the documentation, it'ss sort of poorly half hinted in the Speaker Calibrator.
This sort of ambiguity clearly isn?t of much benefit to anyone and it'ss a shame it hasn?t been better explained by Creative. Thankfully though, CosmoKramer over the 3DSS forums has spent some time testing this feature with his results posted here and instructions on how to get resampling-free playback at those rates. In other words, while the Audigy 2 clearly is a more capable 24/96 soundcard than it'ss predecessors it'ss still not quite there yet.
.Message Edited by Jim_Hans on 06-03-20070:59 AM

Latency with Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA and USB2 Midi po

I have a creative labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZX PCMCIA card which is plugged into my LG 3ghz Laptop.
I connect my Yamaha WX5 Midi Wind Controller to the laptop via an "M-Audio" generic USB-2 Midi port. (Because the PCMCIA card doesn't have MIDI ports).
When I play the WX5 through the laptop in this configuration, I get a 25ms latency which makes it useless for performance. In fact the latency is just as bad as when I used the on-board FM-Synth that comes with Windows.
While doing this test I used the Soundfont Bank Manager to process the midi signals. In the "Midi Devices" the Soundfont Synth is showing as the soundfont device, so I am quite sure it's not using the on-board FM synth by mistake.
I also tried using Jazz++ to process the midi signals instead, and have the same latency issue.
I installed the ASIO-4-All driver to try and fix this problem, and have upgraded all the creative software to the latest version.
None of this lowers the latency.
Incidentally, When I run the Creative Audio Console, although the Wave Device shows as being the SB Audigy 2, the MIDI device shows as "Not Available".
Is what I am trying to do unachievable?

MagicTyger wrote:
Now onto our technical issues:
I used the Soundfont Bank Manager to save the entire selection of sound fonts to a file, then loaded this into sfz. Perhaps my delays are related to the fact that the file is large? I assume you can just copy one or two sounds into a file, rather than every single sound in the Audigy - if so, this might give me a smaller file and therefore lower latency.
I tried using the Asio4All driver again. It gives much higher latency than the nati've SB driver, so I'd like to stick with the SB driver for now.
How do I switch to 6 bit / 48 khz using the nati've SB driver? It's not clear where I'm supposed to set this.
I don't know how to read the sysinfo data. I've attached it to the end of this message - perhaps you can let me know if it appears to have a problem?
Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I tell if DMA transfer is in use? I've attached the DMA part of the sysinfo report.
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Neil
System Information / System Summary / Hardware Resources / Conflicts/Sharing:
IRQ 6 Mobile Intel(R) 95GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port - 259
IRQ 6 ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
IRQ 6 Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio
IRQ 6 Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
IRQ 6 Intel(R) 8280FB/FBM USB Uni'versal Host Controller - 265B
IRQ 6 Texas Instruments PCIxx20 Cardbus Controller
IRQ 6 Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)
IRQ 6 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 394 Host Controller
IRQ 6 Texas Instruments PCIxx20 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
IRQ 8 Intel(R) 8280FB/FBM PCI Express Root Port - 2664
IRQ 8 Intel(R) 8280FB/FBM USB Uni'versal Host Controller - 265A
IRQ 8 Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 295ABG Network Connection
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Mobile Intel(R) 95GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port - 259
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB Mobile Intel(R) 95GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port - 259
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
System Information / System Summary / Hardware Resources / DMA:
Channel ECP Printer Port (LPT) OK
Channel 3 SMC IrCC - Fast Infrared Port OK
Channel 4 Direct memory access controller OK
Sounds like a very interesting controller (and seems you can have even wireless connection now (w/ guite high price though)). Going to look it closer, if I just can find some shop, in this area, having it available.
You seem to have quite many devices/controllers sharing IRQ 6 and IRQ 8. It's not always a bad thing, but you may start getting those audible issues when using low latency settings because of it.
You can try to ease the situation by disabling some un-needed devices/controllers. This can be done from BIOS (more permanent way) and (temporary) from Device Manager (right mouse click the item and choose disable (/enable if needed later)).
I have bolded the ones you propably can disable, if not needing them.
IRQ 6 Mobile Intel(R) 95GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port - 259
IRQ 6 ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
IRQ 6 Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio
IRQ 6 Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
IRQ 6 Intel(R) 8280FB/FBM USB Uni'versal Host Controller - 265B
IRQ 6 Texas Instruments PCIxx20 Cardbus Controller
IRQ 6 Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)
IRQ 6 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 394 Host Controller
IRQ 6 Texas Instruments PCIxx20 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
IRQ 8 Intel(R) 8280FB/FBM PCI Express Root Port - 2664
IRQ 8 Intel(R) 8280FB/FBM USB Uni'versal Host Controller - 265A
IRQ 8 Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 295ABG Network Connection
Wireless NIC controller is one of those said to be causing disturbance in audio --> use the other NIC controller (Marvel Yukon), if it's possible.
Also, I read somewhere on these forums that you don't need the UAA driver when onboard audio is turned off. If you haven't disabled the onboard audio, do it -> SB cards are not (normally) working 00% correctly if onboard is enabled.
If you have more USB controllers listed using other IRQ's then disabling those using IRQ 6 is possible (you just need to check out which ones are disabled so you get your USB device(s) connected).
Could it be possible to see the whole IRQ list?
DMA settings can be cheked/set on Device Manager --> select the controller (like Primary IDE under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers) -> properties -> advanced settings -tab. I'm not sure if DMA (Direct Memory Access) can be set for PCMCIA (CardBus) controller.
ASIO driver options named Creative ASIO and SB Audigy 2 Zs ASIO [xxxx] are 6-bit/48 kHz mode drivers and SB Audigy 2 Zs ASIO 24/96 [xxxx] is as it says on its name. You select the driver on software (for example, menu option ASIO -> Driver "lists available"/"lets you choose" drivers on TobyBear MiniHost).
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 05-25-2006 08:40 AM

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