a2 zs notebook issues

j0yr3x

chester: ok, now i have the same setup.. with resampling, we'll see

ehm. but "4 voices in kx mixer" what? where??! i didnt see it

Chester01

when you run 24 bit, it uses 4 voices instead of 2, right click on the kx icon in the tray, click on kx mixer, then on the left side of the window that pops up, there will be icons, ones a speaker, ones a chip with arrows ones a speaker with a red dot (recording)... at the bottom, there are the 'vu' bars, click that one. if you are playing audio from foobar @ @ 24 bit and 48 khz they should be green bars with red dots at the top

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Chester01

if you were using 16 bit, it would show two red bars rather than 4 green bars.

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Chester01

has it been working?

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j0yr3x

firstly.. it seems good.. but i've played some videos while foobar was playing sounds & bleeep returns! after this everything bleeeps, also yours 24b-rabbit config so.. im back on fresh creative beta drivers, they are stable.... i'm using pc mainly for listening and producing sounds, so stability is at first place!! kX definately needs more debug

Chester01

you were playing the videos with 24 bit 48 khz? didnt know you can play videos through foobar... perhaps the videos were not running through kernel streaming?

EDIT: once 'the voices' are screwed up, they have to be reset to it would make sense that the 24bit 48khz kernel streaming audio would be messed up also... i believe you can configure winamp to output video with kernel streaming, 24 bit and sample rate conversion (perhaps even rabbit as you call it )

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fonling

can my a2zsNB output 5.1 or 7.1 thru optical cable to my receiver? i've got the newest kX installation

samplehunter

Quite late, but...

It's likely the Intel Speedstep thing, which causes the garbled XTRAM Effects. Turn off Speedstep in CMOS Setup or use Rightmark CPU Clock Utility with CPU-HALT on idle option checked. (was the solution for me) Then you'll have clear Reverbs again. This might be the reason why this doesn't occur on cheap laptops.

Chester01

be careful when disabling CPU-HALT; dont put your laptop on your laptop for long this will cause alot more heat to be produced.

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Eugene Gavrilov

no, optical does only transfer stereo data. encoded 5.1 dolby digital signal from a dvd movie can theoretically be passed through, but this function has never been tested

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speedstep: yes, this is a known issue with most pcmcia adapters

E.

samplehunter

With my Laptop (Samsung Q35) there is no big difference in temperature. The only disadvantage is, that windows Taskmanager always reports 100% CPU Load, because of the two RMClockHLT Processes. These are running in Idle-Priority and run a HLT/NOP Loop for each core if there's nothing else to do.
Without these Processes you can hear the CPU "sizzling" when it's idle. Then it switches on and off unused parts in Hardware. Maybe this affects a bit the memory- or PCMCIA-Timing which is vital for XTRAM-based effects like reverbs and delays. I recognized that this distorted sound (and the CPU sizzling) goes away, when it has to work on something.
The alternative is to swich off Speedstep in the CMOS Setup. But this consumes even more energy and you can't switch it on again until next reboot. With this RMClock HLT Thing you can simply kill the Processes or quit the Program if you finished work with your A2 ZS.
BTW: Interestingly you can even quit kxMixer and safely remove the Card, which was impossible with the CL-Drivers. They didn't release the Card anymore and if you removed it - Boom, Bluescreen!
Very nice that with Eugenes drivers you can finally use the Card the way it was intended for and it gets hot-pluggable.

kirillov

In spite of all tricks (disabling speed step and using RMClockHLT) my a2zsnb still produses a little noize (clicks) after a sample (single midi note) stops playing. I solve the problem just by playing a looped silent sample in background during performance... So the system "thinks" that the pcmcia card is doing something and doesn't detach it from the bus and thus there're no clicks :-)

disney

Exactly the same problem here, Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi. It randomly starts beeping, or just stops outputting audio at all... I have to use Creative drivers instead ..

nightfly68

I tried to use last 3550 KX drivers on my notebook, but I have a lot of problems (no input active, analog or optical, no recording) someone can duggest me the last completely working drivers or I must come back to creative ones.

I'd like too much this ones, for Asio use, but in my actual setup I need to use the input, anlalog and digital...
Thanks a lot.

nightfly68

I've installed back versio 3542...
someone knows if there are some newer perfectly working on XP

nyquist

Hello All.
I althought have a problem with my Audigy 2zs PCMCIA and KX driver (ver. 3550, Windows XP) on my notebook.
My card play a sound only on first 8 (of all 32) tracks / wav channels. Next 2 channels are completly quiet, next 2 generates a squeal, and next 20 play ok again. I mean channels / tracks, showed in "Analizer" (32 vertical indicators). For example, when I run and then stop a music player (Winamp) a few times, on "play" it "jump" to next channel, and on 8, 10, 11 and 12 I don't hear a music

Sound card is rather ok, becouse on original Creative drivers all is ok.
Have anybody a similar problem like me? :/

ps. Sorry for my terrible English.

BiCho

hello,

I have problems too, using the SZ Notebook and 3550 on an old Dell SmartStep 100N running XPSP3

Reverb sonds perfect, as well as all analog ins and outs.

Soundfonts don't work at all. kX is able to load them, but I couldn't make them sound at all using at least 5 apps.

Whenever I am playing music I have small drops, and after a while sound stops, even though external inputs keep working. It can be fixed by unplugging the soundcard and plugging it back, but makes it unusable.

Please tell me what else can I do to test it, so developers can help us! Its a great souncard and it sounds wonderful!

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BiCho

Hi,

Based on further research now I can give some more details on the malfiunction:

Outputs sound alright, but the headphones output doesn't work on its own, instead it outputs the same audio as front speakers.

Soundfonts do work, I wasn't using the correct output from the FxbusX. However, as soon as you start sending events and receiving their sound, internal outputs start to make pops and clicks making the soundcard unusable until you restart it.

This issue happens both with Winamp and Foobar, and it seems to happen whenever you change tunes or stop and play back again. It seems to happen only with media players, since I was able to play using Ableton Live and Rebirth for hours without a break.

I hope I am clear enough, is anyone able to reproduce these isuues?

cheers,

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qweiwei

The same ploblem. The Official Drivers is stable. I can't find the EMU patchmix DSP "special patch(crack)",otherwise I will try to use the Official Drivers. Tested KX Drivers from 3538m to 3550, all of version occur the ploblem, Use the foobar play the music and open samplitude 11 with kx asio, record and play sample in samplitude(foobar is still playing), the randomly beeping is starting. when the ploblem was occured, In this case I noticed that Official Drivers also will be muted(about 1 sec.), then the sound will be normal again. I like to use the kx drivers to record(the route setting is too useful), but the ploblem make me confused. hope can solve the ploblem in the next kx drivers. thanks for the people who working in the project.
laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad t60p
os:winxp sp3

qweiwei

It's really too funny, I can't bear the noisy sound, test your way next time.

silvertones

e.g.
Card Info- A2ZSNB
kX Verison info - 3550
OS info - Win XP SP3
My goal was to use the special cable that comes from Creative that provides 8 analog outs. here were my issues.

Desciption of issue:
Unable to route audio to the side outputs when using epilog ( I tried each pairs of outputs on epilog).



Workarounds:
I am able to access the side outputs using epilog_ltk2

Audio from Wave 4/5 appears at side outputs regardless of DSP config (when using epilog), but not when using epilog_ltk2.
The first 8 outs on epiloglt_k2 are mislabled as spdif pairs 0,1,2.
The labels should be as follows.
4000=FL
4001=FR
4002=SUB
4003=CTR
4004=SL
4005=SR
4006=RL
4007=RR
More info here:I have searched high & low for an answer

Eugene Gavrilov

silvertones,

Please try 3551. I hope the issue with side outputs is now fixed.

E.

BiCho

I have the same setup as Silvertones, and I couldn't make the side outputs work neither with epilog_ltk2 nor with epilog

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silvertones

In 3550 side outs work for me with epilog_ltk2 . The first eight ports , forget what they say, are the analog outs. In 3551 they work with epilog or profx but in 3551 the outs get out of sync so I'm back to 3550.

BiCho

I actually rolled back to 3550 and couldn't make the side outs give any sound using epilog_ltk2.
Physically, the output which gives no sound at all is the output on the soundcard, the other three jacks work perfectly. Is this the same as yours?

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silvertones

Do you have the SPECIAL cables to give you 8 physical outs? as you may or may not know on the cable that comes with the card there are only 3 connectors but 2 of these are 4 pole jacks. What you need is 2 camcorder cables and one regular 1/8 stereo to rca cable