Wow! Awesome! Will report back to you on the driver.

Question, what is E-DSP? Do I need this just for sound in OS X?

eugene, I would just want to say, Thank You. You did this with your spare time, and delivered. Donations maybe? haha
I'll be sure to post bugs AFTER you had your vacation lol. Enjoy it, I don't have osx86 installed, due to the lack of sound. But will give these a go. I hope you enjoy your vacation.

Thanks again


P.S
To Eugene, or those who will try out the drivers, before I get home and re-install leopard. Is core audio functional?

Holy sh*t I have sound from my Audigy 2 ZS under Leopard.

All sound comes from the rear speakers as you said in your note. Also I don't see an Audio & Midi panel to configure. In the Sounds I see just a single slider for left and right balance. I don't see how to enable more than 2 channels?

newbmac, audio midi panel is located in the utilities folder, from the finder, click on go and look for utilities . The utilites folder is also located also in the applications folder

Ah thanks! Will try that later today...

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I am going to post this in the news section with a link to this thread. Hope that's ok?

Its always ok to spread the word, Don't forget to test some files with iTunes (different sample rates etc) and other apps. Post your bug reports as mentioned

dosent seem to work. all i get is static from the speakers

Great!!!!!!!!!! i will try my Audigy Zs

Thks!! Eugene

PS. miss my card ( Creative Labs SB Audigy ZS V:1102 D:7003 ) in Info.plist.. i change it..

Don't seem to work with my Audigy SE Installs fine but not found in sound properties in system preferences. Running 10.4.11

You should really provide SOME details on what you are trying to use... i.e. OS version, sound card, etc

Unless you were just complaining and didn't want help from people or to contribute to the test process?

I think Audigy SE is not based on EMU10K(1 or 2) therefore it may not work on it...

This is amazing news, just cracking the case open, and putting in my audigy 2 ZS platinum. Excited!

Lama,

It was suggested in another thread that you please re-do the first post and make it more towards testing now? Suggested :

1) Erase the first post completely and just have the download details and official bug reporting URL.
2) List the cards and OS versions that are and are not working according to reports here. Such as a simple table like

Type OS X Version Speakers Supported Mic Other
Audigy 2 ZS (official Soundblaster card) 10.5.3 5.1, 2.1 etc Not working Sound out rear speakers


Thanks

Thats a real blow And your right it lacks the EMU10K processor.

That is too bad. You could just buy a cheap Audigy 2 off ebay for almost nothing...

so no one is talking about sound quality itself? how does it stack up to its windows counterpart?

Of course but pooling it in the first thread will be a great way to stop the repeated questions Thanks!

Here is mine


Card: Audigy 2 ZS (official Soundblaster card)
OS: 10.5.3 Kalyway
Speakers: 5.1
Sound routing: Rear speakers
Issues: Not yet

OK I am pleased to report that it works great so far (only had sound playing for a couple of minutes so far, there have been reports of sound degrading over 10-15 minutes.

Specs:

Iatkos 4i
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS platinum pro.
Using optical output to Sony receiver - PCM 48KHz output - perfect.

I understand that, of course theres alot to be done before we can compare. But is it enough to justify from using azalia based soundcard quality?? (Onboard Sound). Of course I shouldnt expect something huge, the fact there is support for audigy cards is appreciated, I just wanted to get more details on the sound itself rather than whats not working (which is expected). I'm sure theres bugs, thats okay though. Alpha is alpha

P.S thanks lama for the updates and everything, very helpful , but not so patient according to driverheaven

OK so as a proof of concept this is fantastic, however I am sad to report that after 10 minutes of sound playback the sound distorts and goes garbled. I know this is only at alpha stage, but having sound *at all* is brilliant progress. I'll stay tuned for updates. Good luck to all the others trying it out as we speak!

Iatkos 4i * Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro

Well it's needed for those of us with completely working systems except for the sound! Think of it, lots of systems work very well and it is normally the sound that's the deal breaker. Now, one can get a cheap Audigy card and not only get sound, but get 5.1 sound! that's better than a real mac


LAMA,

You might also want to specifiy in the first post that these work with INTEL OS X.
Hagar's second post in the thread is out of date and says they are PPC, which is NOT the case anymore

Drivers installed fine and detect my card. When Leopard boots I can hear a click in my speakers as if the card is working. But there is no sound (trying iTunes).

I just have a stereo speaker system but have configured the speakers as such because the reports are that only rear speaker output is working:

6: Sub Woofer
3: Front Left
5: Front Center
4: Front Right
1: Rear Left
2: Rear Right

Card detected as: kX CT4760 10k1 [9000]

OS in sig

I'm posting this here because I can't sign-up to driverheaven (Hotmail emails not allowed)

The issue was also with me, I restarted (after setting up speakers) and sound worked (only on the rear speakers). if you copied and pasted this speaker preset (from DriverHeaven), understand that I posted it at Bug report url (my nick is Oxtie over there) and yes, you can try to workaround as you're not getting sound anyways. (but don't forget to restart after any speaker settings changes). If you're successful, please post your results here...

I've restarted after changing the speaker setup but still no dice. I did notice this in Audio MIDI Setup though.

Looks like the master volume is set to 0 and not selectable. Can you check yours and see if it looks like this?

The thing is, this isn't a 5.1 card. I only have a stereo jack for output. No front/rear etc. It's just a basic SB Live Value.

It's great these drivers came out so quick. I hope I don't sound impatient or anything. It's just that I'm also juggling ethernet and speedstep issues at the same time

{censored}...been waiting for these drivers ever since this thread was even made...turns out my Audigy SE isnt compatible LOL!!

Cross fingers, reboot and it's work on my spec! Thank you so much!!! Only 8 channel output in audiomidiutility and no input I have 2.1 audio speakers. I not tested ext. module and i hope to this will work. What about remote control and front row, guys?

OK I got it at last!

Just selected stereo in speaker setup and set left speaker to channel 3 and right to 4 (in all my frantic clicking I didn't read that you can click on the speaker icon to hear a test sound. duh...). I get sound but it degrades within a couple of minutes. Still, that's a known bug right now. But it works!

Dmitrii, try to do what Riley Freeman did set Left speaker to chan3 and Right to chan4 while woofer to 6? try other if didn't work




Ah yes, to save yourselves from Restarts Hagar pointed out a temp solution

OPEN TERMINAL and type the following (which should give you another 10 minutes.... lol)
sudo -s
(password)
kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/kXAudioDriver.kext
(if at this point it says "failed" just repeat the command above)
kextload /System/Library/Extensions/kXAudioDriver.kext

Sound from all 5.1 speakers after setting in Audio Midi Setup!

I tried changing the channels to direct the sound in the Audio Midi Setup for speakers from the rear to the front

For my Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS the following are the speaker channel mappings

Left Front 3
Right Front 4
Center 5
Left Rear 1
Right Rear 2
Subwoofer 6

Yup, I've mentioned it at DH's bug report page but the thing is that after you reboot, it will not sound from all speakers (only the rear ones)

Thanks. But on further testing it starts degrading after exactly 1 minute, so for now it really can't be used.

Works great for me. I actually had to restart to get it all to work.

For Stereo speaker settings I also switched the channels there so now the sound comes from my front speakers WITHOUT having to change my cabling. I also fixed it for MultiChannel 5.1 so it plays the correct channels from each 5.1 speaker.

Front Left 5
Front Right 6

Listening to itunes from my front speakers now, not from back which I assume is correct as this is stereo music and not surround songs.



Well I don't have your sound card. What I had to do:

First adjust in Audio Midi Setup the settings for the speaker channels. Then restart and at restart I did a -f -v

System sound for Adium came from 5.1 and listening to itunes perfectly right now from 2.1

Ok, just CONFIRMED. I restarted and OS X kept all my speaker settings.

If you are not keeping settings, make sure you restart after adjusting the speaker channels and do a -f -v boot.

Going to leave the music playing to see if sound goes ....

BUG: Sound volume adjustment slider does not work on the apple desktop but does work in iTunes

Did you do the chanel mapping for both multichannel and stereo tabs in the Midi Utility?


Well, the sound degrades for me. I just stopped itunes and came back to start it 5 minutes later, sound is all garbled coming out

Yep, got it.

Also, in first post is it correct that rear speakers only work? The issue is the channels are not properly mapped and I have 5.1 sound for system sounds. In iTunes music is only 2 channel, so it should not be coming out of 5.1 right?

regardless of audio channels in a file, 2.0 shouldn't be playing from the rear but all (specially after setting up channel mappings in Audio midi.app). if its only happening with me, then I'll remove it off... although it is an issue. If you see below 48000 Hz, there are channels and only 1 and 2 are adjustable while "M" and all other channels are grayed and off. (i can assume you don't have this)

Standard CT driver in XP plays 2.0 mp3 in all 5.1 not just front or just rear. From my side, Channel test signal noise comes correctly from all right speakers (ofcourse after remapping each of them). Even in kX for XP, I had to use kX Mixer to get all 5.1 working (thanks to Russ@DH for eplog workaround)

EDIT: Bed time, will be back asap.

Paypal donations for their project:

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/fund.php?language=en

Ooooooh, I got a Sound Blaster in my machine begging to be used again (on Realtek ALC889a now). I'll give this a shot.

Audio MIDI Setup

Audio Output

Format:

double click  to  8ch-16bit

sound OK 

Hey Guys,

I tried it with my Audigy4 OEM non Pro and it works! The Card is correctly recognized but the sound is very crispy...The hights in my sound are distortioned and it doesn't really sounds that good...Maybe its getting better with future releases. I'll keep the ball. My bigggest dream is that I can use the digital Output with my Coxial Output. I buyed an adaptor which gives me that outputs. I don't no if its possible but I would love to use my digital outputs with osx!

Good work so far! Keep on rockin' dudes!

Thank you for answer Lama
I just plugin jack into other connector. ir receiver won't work on Audigy2 Platinum It will be great solution for FrontRow. Still wait new version

WOW ! Just saw the thread by accident, when googling around

I'm also a member of the suffering Creative-community, having f.e. a Live!-card
has always been a pain in the arse for a system othen than WinXP

Can't wait to try it out ! THANK YOU !!!

Wish you all peps good luck with this !

Greetings


Mac OS X 10.5.4 (iDeneb v.1) Modbin kernel 9.4.0
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, AMI BIOS v.1023
Intel Pentium 4 HT "Prescott'' 2.8 GHz/FSB 800 MHz/1 MB L2 cache
Intel 875P MCH/Intel ICH5R
Kingston HyperX 2x1 GB DDR 400 MHz
Asus V9999 TD (nVidia GeForce 6800), 128 MB/256 bit, Full CI/QE/QGL

Hmm, that makes it mono and not stereo sound I think. Guess that will work, but not ideal.

Here are the results on a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital + Creative Inspire 5.1 Sound System :

The driver gets loaded by Mac OS X, alert tunes +iTunes songs + HDTV-rips sound work all,
with the exception for the driver working normally only from time to time
In just a few minutes, the sound starts "crackling", loading/unloading the driver
doesn't help much. Although one do can configure the sound output and sound redirection,
and that all channels do their work separately, "format"-choice menu is limited to
48 KHz and 8ch-16 bit, which is i think the thingy causing problems to this card specifically.
Might be of course something completely other than this
If you do not configure a multichannel audio output, but just a stereo,
5.1 output is still working under movies.

But, what the hell, one can't expect miracles right at the first stage, right ?
The KX group has done something i believe no one has expected,
and even with all the mentioned problems, they do deserve the crown !

I am more than sure this initiative will come to its full success
in the near future and wish the talented developers all the best in their lives and their work.

I find this a GIANT achievement and a very big step forward !
Keep up the good work, support is at hand !

THANX A LOT !

Lama, this is great stuff

Does anyone know if Eugene is traveling and won't be able to do another release for a while or not?

Tested on Audigy 4 PRO card, it works very well, the sound quality is great, infortunately the sound gets distorted after 5-10 minutes.
However, awesome work, it sounds very promising