No midi device with X-Fi Audio / Vi

running Vista Ultimate 32bit, with a X-Fi Extreme Audio with the latest drivers. when using Cakewalk or any other midi app, i cannot select the X-Fi as a midi device?for midi file playback, all i have is the Microsoft Midi Mapper. the X-Fi is not listed!?any ideas???

jester666 wrote:
But this card should have 3 modes afterall right
Not even if it tries real hard,
X-Fi Xtreme Audio
The entry-level model of the X-Fi series, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio, does not actually have the EMU20K chip but is a re-branded Audigy SE, using the same family of chips (CA006-WBTLF), and even the same drivers[6]. Thus, not only is all of the X-Fi related processing performed in software, but it also lacks basic hardware acceleration just the like SB Li've! 24 bit, the Audigy SE and other budget Soundblaster models. The X-Fi Xtreme Audio does not use the same drivers as the rest of the X-Fi family, some games do not recognize it as being "X-Fi capable hardware", and the device's hardware profile resembles that of older Li've! and Audigy cards. Furthermore, users have reported that it slows down some applications and games [7] [8] [9]. Thus, even if the card is marketed as part of the X-Fi line, it does not belong to it technically, just like the Audigy SE doesn't technically belong to the Sound Blaster Audigy series. The card is not marketed as supporting the "X-Fi Gaming Mode" (but is still marketed as X-Fi ), and there are no official implicit or explicit statements regarding its having hardware acceleration or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_X-Fi
You want any of those features then you're going to get a real card, not a renamed/rebadged POS.

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