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Hi Howard,

With Vista the basic VSC will not work but VSC DXi works fine with Vista 32

Regarding the Audigy card it was not designed for Vista as Vista processes audio much faster than XP and so the X-Fi range was developed to work with Vista - it processes audio up to 40x faster than Audigy

The minimum soundcard in Vista from the new Soundblaster range is the X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card which has the valuable "what you hear" feature - audio creation as well as a link to front panel connection

As previously stated the Forte Coyote soft synth seems to work across most combinations
jazzman



Yep, this is the setup I am using, even down to the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer. As recommended on this forum, by jazzman and others.

I would warn that the various Creative drivers you need still have some problems, but those released in Feb and March by Creative helped a lot with some of the components and associated software. The Creative automatic updating still does not function with Vista.

I still have a problem, reported by others on the forum, that the Forte Coyote switches itself off every so often - or maybe BB does it. The only way I have discovered you can fix it, is to go to the Audio settings and use the ASIO Audio Driver Type and correct the other settings. Then, if you are lucky enough to get it started, you can usually switch back to the MME driver - which somehow sounds better to my ears.

I notice that a new Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Series Beta Driver 2.18.0013 for Windows 7 was released four days ago. I don't know anyone in Australia who has Windows 7 yet but some American friends tell me it is more stable. Well maybe but Creative's previous Beta drivers were a disaster. They do say it is unsupported. I ain't surprised.

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