No "What U Hear" on X-Fi Xtreme Audio Under Vi

Why can I no longer records streaming audio using my Sound Blaster X-Fi X-treme Audio card now that I've upgraded to Vista? I've brought up the Sound settings in the Control Panel and right-clicked in the 'Recording' area and chosen 'Show Disabled Devices' but all that's available is Microphone, Line In, Auxiliary, and S/PDIF In. When I was using XP with this card, I could capture streaming audio just fine. Any suggestions?

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What ever happened to the "What you Hear" device for XFi Exteme Audio for Vi

I thought for sure the mixer device would be added back in as part of these new driver, but apparently the minds of creative feel it is ok to take options away from a purchased product? Does anyone know of a good work around to allow for recording "What You Hear" in Vista?

wclampet,I have same problem with my X-fi extremeGamer card in vista. It means i can't use any other sound recording software to record anything off the net since there is no recording device such as 'what u hear' for it to use. Can't get support from Creative and they won't even answer the simple question of whether it's supposed to be there or not because mine is an oem dell system. For the some reason i cant?install the latest drivers from the Creative site either ( because i have an oem version ?) - though i?dont think it would solve the issue anyway really. [color="#0033ff">Anyway just to let u know there is a workround - u can record basically 'what u hear'?using?the Creative Mediasource?5 Player using the Digital -in (the only record device i have) and choosing Wav,multi-channels as the recording format. You will end up with a wav. file (big) which you can then convert using the?Creative Mediasource 5 Converter (after a lot of trial and error in choosing the right destination?format - WMA?Pro -28kbps 44kHz?5. Channel for me -
I thought it was not possible for a long while).You end up with a Windows Media Audio WMA file. If you want to convert to Mp3 is seems you have to buy another program off them. ?I am a bit annoyed at not being able to use any other?streaming audio recorder program with this soundcard? that could record direct to MP3. Would appreciate it if anyone (including anyone at Creative - I am in Singapore U know!) could tell me if?there should be a 'what u hear' recording device or not - and if not why not ???

"What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

&. Has anyone been able to successfully get "What U Hear" working on Windows 7 32bit or 64bit's I tired sending Creative an email, but i got the "automated" uninstall reinstall driver BS. Which I did, and did nothing but waste time. I am running the most recent drivers aswell.
I have an X-Fi Xtreamgamer running the 2.8.003 drivers on Windows 7 x64.

jmacguire wrote:
WHAT U HEAR must be chosen as the default recording device. Make sure you plug in your microphone. Then select 'what U hear" instead as the recording device. This way you have mic or 'what u hear" both as choices. Play a video or song, and record while doing it. Look below and you will see my choices now:?
In the windows control panel, under sound, and then under recording devices, I can speak into the microphone and I can hear it coming out of my speakers. I then mute the micophone and it is still recording, because if I open the control panel, sound, recording applet, both bars for sound bounce until I mute the mic. Then the mic is recording but not allowing the sound play too.
I see what your tring to say, but when I choose "What U Hear" I get nothing, no audio, no nothing. In the Windows control panel like you mention it looks like this:
As you see no green level bar, no nothing. Just "Currently Unavailble". I was playing around with the something last night and go it to work for about 0 minutes, and than back to "Currently Unavailble". This is proably a driver issue, which Creative is going to take forever to remedy. As always. I was just wondering if anyone else is having this issue with Windows 7, and/or if there is a fix/workaround.

Xfi - xtreme/vista - no "what you hear" - please h

I have puchased new Dell pc, with Vista ultimate, and soundblaster xfi xtreme card in. Looking at the forums i am not the only person with the problem of locating "what you hear", i have gone through process of right clicking and showing disbled functions but alas it is not there. I have uninstalled drivers and reinstalled and it makes no difference at all. My soundcard was put in by Dell and i am little reluctant having had this pc only a week to take out the soundcard to check for product number, therefore although i get 90 day help from Creative i cant use this service. I spend a lot of time playing music triv on paltalk and without "what you hear" i cant do this - i have gone through all forums to try find solution but none found so far, but there must be one.Would i be better off getting rid of Vista and putting XP on, will this work ??Many thanks

charliedimmock wrote:
Many thanks for response, it is X-FI XTREME MUSIC PCI SOUNDCARD, it is Vista Ultimate I am running. I have tried absolutely everything have reinstalled sound card/drivers but still the same, and there is no "what you hear" available. Even paltalk have tried to help me and they say it should be there but alas no.
If you have link to drivers please let me know, any help at the moment would be appreciated. ThanksCharlie
The drivers are on the Creative website. The only way I know to restore the "What You Hear" is to uninstall the driver and all the software, install an older version of the driver that had the "What you Hear" component (I don?t know where you?re going to get an older version of the driver), then update the driver to the latest one without uninstalling the old one unless prompted to during the update. After that you can install the software and whatever else you need.
This was how I got the option back after the driver update from the Microsoft Windows site installed the driver which removed the ?What You Hear? form my system.

How do I get the "What u Hear" back in the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Aud

When I right click on the recording the "what u hear" is no-where to be found, and is not present, is this fuction no-longer? available in the lastest PCI Express X-FI Xtreme Audio card in Vista? I can't seem to find it anywhere, it's not disabled or hidden it's just gone
any help would be nice?

I just found out that the "what u hear" function is not supported in the Creavti've Sound Blaster PCI Express X-Fi Xtreme Audio Card
however, I, was able to get this to work (here's what I did) for a work-around
. I used a /8 stereo y-adapter and connected it to the speaker output, on the X-fi card,
2. then used the on-board REALTEK sound cards imput jack,
3. by doing this I now have the REALTEK Stereo Mix and the REALTEK line-in as the "what u hear" option, this will only work if you
have an on-board sound card
so now I can record everything I hear on my PC, streaming audio, ect. I hope this helps anyone who's bought this card and doesn't have the "what u hear" recording option as this function is NO LONGER supported by Creative...................here's what I got in my email form the Creative support team about this issue:
<pre>Thank you for contacting Creative Technical Support Services; we
appreciate the opportunity to assist you.
>From your descriptions, you are having issue with getting the "What U
Hear" option to show up on Vista System. I apologize for any
inconveniences this issue is causing you. Let me see what I can do to
assist you.
For your information, The What U Hear recording option is not supported
for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Series in Vista.
If you still require assistance, please reply to this email with any
previous correspondence to ensure the quickest and most accurate
service.
Again, I apologize for the issue you are facing. Thank you again for
contacting us at Creative Technical Support.
Best Regards,
**advisor**
Technical Support
Creative Labs Americas</pre>Message Edited by denb45 on 09-26-2008 08:05 AM
Message Edited by denb45 on 09-26-2008 08:09 AM[color="#999999"> [color="#000000"]**Admin notes: Pls removed the name of advisor/s when posting such msg - Richard-CLMessage Edited by Richard-CL on <span class='local-date'> 09-26-2008<span class='local-time'> :33 PM

Microphone and "What U Hear" can't be enabled at the same time.

Hi,
so this is what I am currently doing: I am streaming li've online game play with the help of Flash Media Li've Encoder. It uses the What U Hear option,? without any problems, so far. Sometimes though I would like to coment on whats currently happening (in the game) with "What U Hear" though enabled, my microphone is disabled and I can not do that. Any voip software then ofc. gives me error messages, that my microphone is not available.
Surely there must be a way to enable the mic and what u hear
My OS is Win7 x64
and my soundcard is a creative x-fi xtreme music

Try unmuting mic in playback section of mixer

What U Hear.

Where the hell is it's I've been using Windows 7 for months now and this feature, which I used frequently in Windows XP with the very same Audigy SE, is still noticable by its complete absence. I'm no software engineer, nor do I pretend to know jack about the intricacies of taking a DAC's output and feeding it back through an ADC, but considering that there's posts on the MSDN categorically stating that 7 has programming in place specifically to aid the creation of such a recording source, why is this still absent? The driver can't still be at such an early stage of development.
So yeah, get it fixed already.
Oh and I've already tried the whole right-click > Show Disabled/Disconnected Devices thing. No dice.

\ I had the same problem - no "What U Hear", Windows 7 RTM and SB soundcards.
There was another software problem with my SB soundcards:
I found no Windows 7 RTM Soundfont Synth.
My solution:
I dismounted and uninstalled all SB soundcards (4 SB Audigy LS and SB Xtreme Audio) and activated the Realtek soundcards on the motherboards.
Now I can record "What I Hear" in all my PCs.
I dislike Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, Creative's? SoundFont Synth sounds better.
If Creative [color="#ff0000"]soon comes up with solutions to my two problems, I will reinstall my Creative soundcards.
Else I will buy software synths from another company and leave Creative for good.

"What u Hear" does not work (SPDIF)

- Hi!
"What u Hear" option doesn't work after I changed the output to SPDIF. The question is, how i could record sound that goes through my audio card (X-Fi Xtreme Gamer).
In windows' recording tab are these options for recording:
Microphone
Auxiliary
Line-In
What u Hear
Pls help
I have win 7 ultimate x64 as OS.

new new VisRe: "What u Hear" does not work (SPDIF)Y I have exactly the same issue. When I originally got my new Vista PC, 'what you hear' wasn't available. It became available when I installed the new driver, as indicated here:http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=&CatName=Sound+Blaster&s ubCatID=208&subCatName=X-Fi&prodID=4066&prodName=X-Fi+XtremeMusic&bTopTwenty=&VARSET=prodfaq:PRODFAQ_ 4066,VARSET=CategoryID:
However, If I open 'Smart Recorder' for example, I can select 'What yiou hear (Creative SB X-Fi)' as an option, but hitting record doen't record what is playing on the PC. So it doesn't actually seem to do anything...
...unless anyone knows different?... Is there a setting I missing? Everything looks fine in the 'Recording Divices -> Record' tab...

X-Fi "What U Hear" and 24

I have X-Fi Xtreme Music, latest drivers, Windows XP SP2. When I save sound through "What U Hear" into WAV-file, all going OK before I try to save stereo WAV-file with 24 bit and 96 KHz. When I save stereo 24 bit 96 KHz file, I receive empty WAV file with straight line, no sound. In any other settings all working perfectly (even in mono 24/96), but I want maximum quality and can't got it Message Edited by Twinsen on 09-2-2006 02:35 PMMessage Edited by Twinsen on 09-2-2006 02:35 PM

What're you using to save the wave file? Mebbe the application doesn't understand 96 kHz wave data?
Does the problem occur if you save to wave at 96 kHz with Mediasource player?

"What U Hear" - X-Fi Extreme Audio on Vi

Hi,
Having Googled on this subject, I think I know what I want. The trouble is I've read so many threads both here and in other forums, I just can't find it! I hope you'll be nice to me as a first-time poster here
I have the X-Fi Extreme Audio Card , am running Vista (32) and need the "What U Hear" function. It appears I need old drivers/software from 2006 to make this work - Can anyone kindly point me to a li've link for these, please?
I have been in contact with Creative Tech Support, but have sort of hit a brick wall
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Message Edited by Jingleman on 04-05-2008 11:11 PM

Dajdu wrote:
Hello,
I have the same problem, I got Windows Vista and as a sound card I have SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio. Everthing was fine until I baught this new headset from SteelSerios. The sound works fine but when I come to the microphone, I cannot record, I cannot be heard in Ventrilo and stuff.
So please Jingleman what have you eqtually done to solve your problem and what driver have you downloaded please.
Thanks In Advance
Dajdu,
I can not comment on SteelSerios, but I totally removed all Creative software, which included the driver. Vista then picked-up my 'X-Fi Extreme Audio' sound card as 'new hardware' and automatically found a suitable Creative driver. After this I updated driver allowing it to check the internet and the working driver is Creative 5.2..68 dated 08/05/2007 (that may be 05/08/2007 to you).
If that doesn't work, try temporarily removing any software you installed relating to SteelSerios
Cheers.

Microphone and what U hear can not be use at the same time at the same time

I am using Creative SB X-fi Xtreme Gamer (Creative Model Number: SB073A), sound card and have down loaded the latest drivers (version 2.18.15). What U hear is enabled, which in turned makes the microphone unavailable. If you reverse the settings, then what U hear is unavailable.
It appears that; microphone and "What U Hear" can't be enabled at the same time. If someone has an answer on how to correct the following settings to achieve; using the microphone and what U hear at the same time would be appreciated.
My OS is WIN 7x32

It was possible in Windows XP but due to windows 7 own audio mixer this does not work anymore.

Bad quality What U Hear

I have been trying to find out the reason why my Xtreme Music card was recording What u Hear with kind of an echo no bass quality; and i have found out before i installed the creative console launcher the recording quality was great! but after i restarted after i installed it it reverted back to horrible quality.
Is there a way to keep the quality while being able to control treble and bass?

my Xtreme Music card also gives an echo and produces the sounds a bit higher after i installed all drivers again (did windows 7 upgrade)
it only does it over speakers though

Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum + What You Hear

Hi All,
I'm looking into picking up a Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum or the X-Fi Platinum Fatalty Champion Series card... However after recent frustration loosing the "What U Hear" option on a old Audigy SE running under Windows Vista, I am a little unsure!
My question is: Do the X-Fi Platinum or Fatalty Champion Series cards have the "What U Hear" recording option like it did with previous older Creative cards? *I am now back using Windows XP*
Also, are the 2 mentioned X-Fi cards much cop when it comes to music production?
Many thanks

Well looking over [url="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/creative-soundblaster-xfi.html">here[/url]?you see the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review.
Note...[*]ASIO 2.0 support at 6-bit/44.kHz, 6-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring.<?
ASIO 2.0 seems a different ball game all together.
We know that not all those card will NOT give you What U hear in Vista, so I think it's bad to get the terms confused.
You can find the same on some USB eternals as well, and I've yet to see one than that can do mix (What U hear)
I?suggested to?creative in another thread if they could supply this information rather than let someone buy the card to find out it doesn't.
Worth noting that creative have stated what cards can do What U hear in Vista tho.
The What U Hear recording option is supported in Windows Vista for Sound Blaster X-Fi series (Excluding Extreme Audio series) and Sound Blaster Audigy series (excluding Sound Blaster Audigy LE, SE, and Audigy Value).
Some of those card will with older drivers though.
This whole Stereo mix thing has become a total sham, and is not provided on most new laptops with vista and creatives external solution ( X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook) doesn't give it in Vista but it does XP but you CANNOT do voice over music with it as you have mic control and it mutes the mic.
I suppose it depends what we use mix for though....some people just want it to record from the web, so they are not bothered about the mic, but if you want to do voice over music (karaoke or DJ) it's no good.
I could give you a link to a forum where people are cursing the lack of mix, and I can see it getting worse as people get new PCs with Vista on.
Sorry I went off topic, but I needed a vent over this as I often get asked by people "what should I buy" and I can't find the answers!
Come on Creative!!!!![/list]

Vista (32bit) and 'what u hear' problem

Hi,
Wonder if anyone has encountered this problem. I usually mess around with sound n stuff and in XP used to record stuff on the fly using what u hear tool.
Since moving to Vista (32bit) whenever i record utilising the 'what you hear' recording setting the recording volume tends to MAX out at 100% regardless of what setting i set it at using the sound controller.
I have the X-Fi Xtreme music edition and am using the latest CL drivers (too afraid to try the M$ WHQL driver update which arri'ved for me today).
I use Adobe Audition .2 to record audio.
Anyone have a work around?
Thanks

Here's the answer to the WHAT U HEAR problem that just came in today from the wonderful folks at Creative.
"Please be informed that drivers updated from the web will comply with
UAA standards. However, due to Microsoft's new Windows Vista?
architecture, some features may be lost. I regret to inform you that
currently "What U Hear" as recording source is not supported in Windows
Vista."
Doesn't sound very creative to me. I was originally asking about this in regards to a x-fi xtreme audio board but it looks like they've thrown up their arm is surrender to Vista period.
I have managed a fair work around by putting a y connector at my card's speaker out, running a patch cable to my stereo, and then sending it's signal back into the card's line in socket. There's probably a lot of signal loss but it does allow me to use my stereo's reverb and equalizer to good advantage. Good enough for what I'm doing.

How come my final bounces have some much more bass in them then what I hear when I am mixing them

No matter setting I try when I bounce them, there is noticeably more bass in the final mix....I keep trying to pull it back and just keeps ending up in the mix. Unless I just kill it...what happened to what you hear is what you get.
Mac Mini 2.4 running Lion. Logic 9.1.5 running in 64 bit mode. 8 gig of ram. Mix is on seperate 7200 speed drive.
I have been a live engineer for years. Used Sonar for a long time. Always got want heard in monitors with that. Have switched to Logic and man I am get not getting my bounces to sound like what I mixed.
I am listening to them back in iTunes as Wave files.
What the heck am I doing wrong??? Have tried offline, live, normalization on and off....changed every config I can think of....
Just plain weird or this just the symptom of a product that seems like it is being ignored in all the imania.....

Hi
Did you check iTunes playback preferences to see if the "Sound Enhancer " etc are turned off?
Does the Wav sound OK if you listen yo it via Quicktime?
CCT

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