SoundBlaster Live Crackling and Popp

I've tested different things but still don't know what I'm doing wrong, I got a refurbished external Soundblaster li've card from ebay and I'm trying to record music in realtime but not sure what to do. I have a brand new toshiba satellite laptop with dou centina processors (.6X2) and 52 MB ram, how do i mess with the settings for latency or bios and stuff like that, i read the article about X-Fi but and understand the stuff posted but don't have any direction to go, just an idea.....is it the memory card's fault or my computer or the usb bandwidth or what?

jouro wrote:
hello,
I'm using win98, and rear speaker jack?gives no sound. I'm using SB Li've! Value. Please, post here if you found the answer.
Did you set the speaker setting to 4/4. speaker setup? Try also using these newer CD installation.
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=8432

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Soundblaster Live Value and Windows

I have been previously running Soundblaster Li've Value on an Windows ME computer without any problems. I have now upgraded to Windows XP, could you please advise what files I require to run Soundblaster Li've Value on Windows XP including the application file. Are any files required from the original Soundblaster CD. I would appreciate your advise. kevsim

[size="3" face="Times New Roman">Catherina-CL, ?I thank you for the advice and for the others in sharing their experiences.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">I still have a few problems and would appreciate some further help.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">I have installed the update as suggested.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">When I was running Sounblaster under Windows ME, there was an applet called ?What You Hear?, I can now no longer find this applet.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">The other issue is, previously I had a sound recorder which would record in stereo, since the upgrade I can no longer find this, it was part of Soundblaster.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">kevsim

This might get rid of your crackling and popp

I know many of you have tried this so just ingnore, this thread. I went to bios and changed my pci latency. I couldnt believe I didnt think of that a long time ago. I was so fixed on believing it was the drivers (which I still do) that I didnt think of my settings in the bios. My card isnt working like it should but its a whole lot better than it was. I can play cod 2 with eax3 with no prob. Before I couldnt even have 2d sound with the lowest frequency. Now all Im waiting on is the new drivers which will probably come out after they release a new card. This thread is just for someone who doesnt know about bios settings or someone who just forgot.

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Conflict with SoundBlaster Live! and Asus A8V Deluxe onboard au

Hi,
I have just upgraded my motherboard to an Asus A8V Deluxe. On my old board, I used to use two sound devices at once. One was the onboard sound and the other was a PCI Sound Blaster Li've card.
On the new board, I have the Realtek onboard sound enabled in BIOS. This works fine on its own, but when I put the Sound Blaster Li've in, Windows no longer displays the Realtek in the device manager. Instead I just get the Sound Blaster. So its like the motherboard doesnt like two cards at once.
I would like to get the onboard sound working as I use it most days for internet telephony through a headset while my PCI card is used for music / games etc through the loudspeakers.
Thanks in advance.
Will

<i have that mobo in my other pc and i could never get the onboard sound to work with the augy2 zs at all. it would never show up in device manager when ever i had the augy2 installed. i did talk to a ASUS tech and they told me that you cant run the onboard with a sound card at all. it is automatically disabled vie mobo. some how? he realy didnt go into details about it. but yeah i ended using 2 sound cards on that pc the augy2 zs and a li've 5. 24 bit so i could have my teamspeak usin the 5. and everything else used the augy2. and even now with this new pc i built i cant use the onbaord sound with a sound card. even tho i could use it for a bit tho. it would ened up crashing an the blue screen of death would also happen when i did. so i to now use a usb headset that is for playstation2 since it has its own sound device built in it. but sorry for no good news for ya tho. but other then that , that mobo is a good one tho, the A8V deluxe.

Soundblaster Live (Dell) and Windows 98 SE dont wo

Hi:
Have a SB li've (value?) (CT4780) from a Dell PC, circa 2000. The Dell machine died so I removed the SB li've card and Installed it in my Asus MB P3B machine running windows 98 SE. Dnloaded the drivers for SB Li've Value from the Creative USA site and installed them....No sound...from any source. Checked the web..supposedly there are some problems with this card and usable drivers from Creative. Can anybody point me toward the right set of drivers that will make this card work with W 98SE?
Thanks
John

Those are the upgrade drivers. I need the original drivers that came on the CD.
When I try to install the upgrade drivers, the installation correctly completes, but after restarting device manager just shows failure on the card with a message about drivers not being installed.

Problem with DTT3500 soundset and onboard Soundblaster live! 24-bit

Hi,
I have bought a new PC with an MSI k8n sli platinum MB. this mainboard has a built in soundblaster live!24-bit chip onboard. it works great on headphones and normal 2 set speakers (analog connection).
however, when I try to set them up at the DTT3500 speaker set, trouble begins.
before continuing, just want to say First that my older PC is standing next to it, with a Soundblaster live! 5.1. If I connect with this PC to my speaker set, via the digital uitput, everythin works great. (5.1 surround).
In the DTT3500 manual, when Digital DIN is blinking, it says it isn't recieving any signal, or not the right one (like AC-3). (I know this when on my old PC when I switch to headphones, the digital din is then blinking, which is normal as I disabled Digital output in Windows)
now my questions:
Is this digital port is ac-3 signal or somthing else on the Soundblaster live! 24-bit?
Do I need to use another type of cable, like SPDIF Din Cable? (I now have a minijack to Din cable)
I tried with optical, it works, but only with 2 speakers (left and right / digital output is on). is this normal? If i look at the manual, it's typical used for gameconsoles with stereo left and right. I guess this is so with the DDT3500 decoder...?
if I try Digital Din on the Decoder, it doesn't work. the Decoder Led keeps blinking. Yet in Windows, digital output is on and 5.1 speakers is selected.
In short, exact the same setup on the Decoder and PC as my older PC.
My guess is the the soundblaster live! 24-bit is an enhanced version of the soundblaster live! 5.1? Am I wrong, I don't know....
I do know that the reviews said you could use the digital port (orange one)
here is a picture:
http://www.overclockers.co.nz/ocnz/reviewimage.php?id=05boardnf4sli00microstak8nslipt0104&file=panel.jpg
and here more info on it: http://www.overclockers.co.nz/ocnz/review.php?id=05boardnf4sli00microstak8nslipt0204
I would apreciate any help, as i'm really stuck at the moment.

does anybody use the soundblaster live! 24-bit to power a surround speaker set? or is it just impossible? (for gaming)

SoundBlaster Live! 24 and Vista - Deteriorating Sound Qual

I've recently upgraded to Vista Business, and my system informs me that except for the drivers for an ancient scanner all is working properly.
When playing music (using a Creative SB Li've 24bit card with the most recent driver installed), all starts off well (in fact playback is better than under XP Pro) but the sound quality starts to deteriorate badly, especially when I open a browser. Quite often the browser itself seems to freeze.
I have 3Gb RAM, with a 3.60Ghz P4 processor.
Task Manager tells me that often I am running at 00% of CPU capacity, though the problem seems to occur at lower usage too.
I've checked everything I know to check but just can't seem to get to the root of the problem. Can anyone suggest anything I should be looking at?

Sadly no real progress.
I simply pulled the Soundblaster Live 24 out of the computer and am using the onboard sound instead which at least for me Arch recognized just fine.
I haven't been able to get any suggestions for why the Soundblaster was not working, but I am going to try another sound card a friend lent me and see what happens.

Slow performance, Audio Crackling and Stutters

I bought my Qosmio X775 7384 just 2 months ago and from the second I took it out of the box it seemed to underperformed, by which I mean it was about 1/2 as fast as my duel core 6gb RAM gateway desktop. I tried to ignore the issue and continued on with my work on my new laptop, using it mainly for music production. Every once in awhile I would get crackling and stutters, this I also tried to ignore but recently when I was in the middle of a performance it completely stuttered out and crashed the computer altogether, which was very embarrassing.
Since then the crackling and popping seems to happen during every song, either in my software, tunes, youth.... pretty much anything with sound has crackling and popping. My music software freezes and crashes and I am still extremely underwhelmed by its performance.
So far I have called and talked to support 3 times, the last time begging for a refund. They want to take my computer for repairs, IM not quite ready to give it up yet as I need it for performing. So here is what I have done.
I reinstalled every windows driver in my devices, I reinstalled every driver from this website and I have done a out of box restore. Nothing has helped.
I ran latencymon and its telling me that my isc and dpc routines are lasting too long for ndis.sys hdaudbus.sys iastor.sys and i8042prt.sys and its telling me that at least one of my problems seems to be network related and that it looks like it could be battery related as well.
Right now I have stripped all unnecessary programs and upgraded my wifi to the euro version of atheros. I believe I have done everything possible to speed up and make my computer stop popping and stuttering and it continues to do so as well as spike in the red of my latency testers.
Please help!

It sounds like you've done everything you can, especially considering that you did an out-of-box recovery. I'd agree that it's time to send it for servicing (or live with it, I suppose).
- Peter

I'm about to lose it! SB Live! and KT7Pro2 follies.

I'm past the point of frustrated. I just bought a K7TPro2 (6330) to replace my original K7T that died on me. I have a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum (CT-4760) that worked just fine with that system that I am now trying to install in the Pro2. I've logged about 8 hours in that endeavor to date. Here's the skinny of it (I'll try to be brief).
Windows XP fully recognizes the Live! card and gives every indication that it is in place and working; minus the sound. I do want to keep the Live! card as it has some nice features for musicians who use Cakewalk; more specifically SoundFonts (please tell me if the AC97 can do the same). The connectors on the front are very nice too.
- I checked all of the connections, wiring, etc. threefold
- with the new motherboard, I did buy a new case with a 400W Power Supply, running Athlon 1.1Ghz, 356Meg PC100 RAM
- I flashed the 6330 bios with the latest, 3.6 I think
- I installed the Via 4 in 1 patch, multiple, multiple times
- I downloaded the latest and greatest Live! drivers and installed, deleted, and reinstalled many, many times
- I even went throught the registry deleting references to the Live! before reinstalling
- I've tried the above with the onboard sound bios settings both enabled and disabled (onboard sound, modem, legacy audio settings)
- I've tried the above with Windows enabling/disabling the onboard AC97 sound
- I manually set IRQ 5 to legacy audio, the Live! card shows up on IRQ5, no conflicts there
- I switched PCI slots
- I threw the computer out the window (in my dreams)
I think that's the skinny of it. Please, can anybody help? I'm not completely opposed to buying a new card if it works well with SoundFonts, Cakewalk, and has an excellect sound/noise ratio. (and costs less than $150)

Please listen to what goofball2k said you really should try it in another machine first as if it's not the sound card that $400 wasted.
Also have you taken out the sound card and enabled the onboard sound yet? Try it and see if you can get the AC'97 working.
Cheers
Michael

ALsa + Soundblaster Live 5.1 + 5.1 Sound

HI there!
I finally bought a 5.1 Surround System today, but I have a major problem. Only the Subwoofer, Fron-Left- and Front-Right-Speakers are working, no Sound from Center, Surround-Left- and Surround-Right-Speakers
Here is my modules.conf, Alsa-Page says it should work:
# module : ALSA
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 snd_cards_limit=1
options snd-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id="EMU10K1" snd_extout=0x1f0f
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-pcm-oss snd_dsp_map=0 snd_adsp_map=3
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
And now my .asounrc
pcm.emu10k1 {
type hw
card 0
ctl.emu10k1 {
type hw
card 0
I tried so much already and nothing works
I played around with alsamixer and I finally got the Center-Speaker to work, but it just works instead of the Front-Left-Speaker. It really sucks.
Maybe you can help me, it would be nice.

i had some same issues , but i have soundblaster live 24-bit , but disabling the onboard bios didnt do anything for me , so i had to look for some ways to figure out how to fix this , * love thy google.com/linux *
bash# speaker-test -c6 -t2 ( this is to test your surround speakers , providing your using ca0106 driver such as myself )
if you only get a few channels you could also make your ~/.asoundrc file with some goodies in it ill post a few examples i have found
pcm.ca0106 {
type hw
card 0
ctl.ca0106 {
type hw
card 0
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dout"
pcm.dout {
type dmix
ipc_key 1025
slave {
pcm "hw:0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
ctl.dout {
type hw
card 0
pcm.duplicate {
type plug
slave.pcm "surround51"
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
pcm.dmixs51 {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,1"
rate 48000
channels 6
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_time 0
buffer_size 4096
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixs51"
pcm.duplicate {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixs51"
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
Now dont forget to run alsaconf before you do this and make sure you have 5.1 surround speakers for this as well
any other questions about the soundblaster live 24-bit , contact me and ill try to help if i can , ( i have been reading about this for days )

Soundblaster live gameport not working on k7n2 delta-L

i have a k7n2 delta-L motherboard and i installed a soundblaster live sound card and can not get the game port to work at all. first i thought it was a bad card so i installed a different card and the same thing so ithen thought it was the game controller and tried a different one and it didnt work either . and yes i disabled the on board sound in the bios before installing the card. i have it in ide slot #3. seems to be the best to go with .i am running win 98 se. and all my drivers are up to date. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

fourhooffarms,
In the BIOS Disable the onboard Realtek Sound and then put the Live! in PCI Slot 3 or 4, then set the IRQ of that Slot to IRQ5.
Also list all your IRQs and every Device on each IRQ.
Take Care,
Richard
P.S. Do list the specs on your Power Supply too.

Soundblaster live 24bit, distort

Hi,
just purchased a new computer with a Soundblaster Li've 24 bit. The problem I have is that a while of playing sound the kard starts to produce static crackles and distortion. If I run a cubase project, it's fine in the beginning, but after some minutes, there will be a small scipping of the sound and the static distortion starts to appear. After closing the project and re-opening it again, it works fine for the next few minutes.
Any idea how to fix that?
Thanks,
Andreas

Try increasing the playback latency (can be set on software you're using for audio playback).
Try other playback drivers (from MME, DirectSound, WDM, (/WDM/KS (Kernel Streaming), ASIO/). If your audio application is not capable other than MME/DS drivers, then you can try Foobar2k (select the special installation) or MixVibes 6 (demo) (these apps are capable for WDM/KS and ASIO).
If still these issues, try to decrease PCI latency for graphics card (you'll find information on how to do this, by searching this forum).
.jtpMessage Edited by jutapa on 09-5-2005 :25 PM

Problems installing soundblaster live

I just bought a kt4 ultra I am trying to install a soundblaster live sound card, I go to the bios and disable the audio on board option, but when windows xp starts it recognizes the sound card but then it hangs, any help to fix this is much appretiated. thanks

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MSI K9N DIAMOND CA0106 chipset AUDIGY or SOUNDBLASTER LIVE 24

I have 2 PC's one with an MSI K8N SLI PLATINUM mobo with onboard SOUNDBLASTER 24bit li've (CA006)
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=69&maincat_no=&cat 2_no=&cat3_no=
This system has run fine for over 2-/2 years now with no troubles it was connected to my PIONEER VSX 86 via SPDIF/toslink? and has excellent sound and performed all that I wanted including DTS DVD's and all my music video clips, DIVX movies etc etc
The trouble is, I have just setup my new system
MSI K9N DIAMOND also with the onboard Creative sound (CA006) and comes supplied with the Creative Audigy disc
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=028&maincat_no=&ca t2_no=7
When I try to install the drivers/setup disc it tells me that there is no Audigy onboard/installed? I have managed to install the drivers/disc from the previous soundblaster li've 24bit, It does work with the Audigy goldmine demo and has all channels of sound as it should but in the Surround mixer speaker settings it will only sound out 2 speakers even when it shows all 5. as it is currently configured
I have tried to download many other drivers with no luck
My main concern is the creative programs from my old system are not what I want, I paid for an AUDIGY setup not LIVE
Is it possible to get the AUDIGY onboard running as it should (showing AUDIGY in hardware manager, not LIVE 24bit)
I would like to be able to run the newer software from the AUDIGY disc but it is not compatible when the LIVE drivers are installed
I have had one set of drivers display AUDIGY in the hardware manager but when I tried to use the speaker settings etc it fails and says soundcard not found even though it clearly shows AUDIGY drivers are installed
I have been very happy with the creative sound so far on my first MSI system but I'm not very impressed with this setup and I'm still not sure who's fault it is MSI or CREATIVE?
Can someone give me some details as to what is going on here, I would like to know if it is also possible to use some kind of new software/programs for the soundblaster LIVE that has maybe more settings/functions or just a later better style as I may have to use the same on my new system
The menu's etc in my new manual (K9N DIAMOND) look almost identical to those included with the K8N SLI, The disc included with the K9N DIAMOND has an AUDIGY quick start program/demo which gives you a preview/guide on how to use the supposed AUDIGY which has all new menu's, layout and features which im unable to use?
As mentioned I have used the soundblaster 24bit LIVE for well over 2 years now connected to my PIONEER VSX86 via a digital cable so all the previous settings etc have been compared and doublechecked but im unable to find answers, If I am unable to find help or any way to install the AUDIGY as im meant to have I may resort to fitting another soundcard and I may got to another brand unfortunately
Any help appreciated

If I am right the onboard Audigy on the MSI K9N Diamond utilizes the CA006 chip instead of the EMU0k2, therefore it is not a real/genuine Audigy soundcard. In fact it's the same as your former soundblaster li've 24bit which also utilizes the same CA006 chipset. That's why you can use the driver from the SB li've 24bit for your new "Audigy" onboard sound. Also there are other soundcards that are not genuine Audigy soundcards: Audigy Se, Audigy LS and, yes, also the X-fi Xtreme Audio, all utilizing the same chip, CA006. Creative Labs use some marketing techniques, add some different (newer) software/apps for the soundcard and give the soundcard (with the same chipset) a different name. In my opinion, if you for example buy a X-fi Xtreme Audio you in fact for the most part paid for the included newer softwares (which for example add "X-fi features like Crystalizer etc.).
If you really want a better soundcard, maybe go for the X-fi XtremeMusic or XtremeGamer which utilizes the genuine EMU20K chip (with hardware acceleration). The soundquality is significantly higher than the soundcards with the CA006 chip.
As for the drivers for the soundcard:
Official Creative Labs driver for Sound Blaster? Audigy? Value/SE/LS, or Sound Blaster Li've!? 24-bit audio devices
Good luck!
Message Edited by CTman on 05-07-2008 0:28 AM

Differences between live 24bit and audigy se?

hi!
anyone knows whats the exact differences between the creative soundblaster live 24bit (found in the k8n diamond and p4n diamond) and creative soundblaster audigy se (found in k8n diamond plus)? the chipsets seems to be identical among each other. the specs are also identical.
pls advise.

Quote from: alg7_munif on 29-July-06, 04:00:10
Why my device control on my K8N Diamond plus did not have the decoder tab?
Maybe that's why I can't get 5.1 sound from my digital speaker...
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=99326.0
Looks like you don't have the right software drivers installed. Instead of the nVIDIA Audio drivers, you should be installing the Creative Labs drivers from the enclosed driver CD-ROM, the separate one from the MSI disk. Next go to Creatives site and run all the updates from their Auto-update service.
You should be able to select the tab shown above as I also see it. Each selection also works for me so I can say that the Dolby decoding does work.

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