Speaker Fill on a SoundBlaster Audigy 2

[Cerastez]

This is a guide to get all your speakers working with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card.

 

Mine is installed in a Dell GX620 running leopard 10.5.8.

 

All the files you need are here: Surround_Sound_Files.zip

 

1. Install your Audigy card
   
2. Get into the Bios and disable the onboard audio, and re-start.
   
3. Download and installkXAudioDriver-1.3b0, a link to it can be found in Oxtie's signature here . There are two versions available, 1.11b0 for Snow Leopard and 1.3b0 for Tiger and Leopard.
   
4. Download and install Soundflower.
   
5. Install AU Lab. It can be found on your retail Leopard installation disk, as a part of Apple Developer Tools.
   
6. Go into the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. Open Audio MIDI Setup.
   
   • Under the
     Audio
     menu, click
     Open Aggregate Device Editor
     .
     
     
   • Click the "
     +
     " to make an Aggregate Device
     
     
   • Check
     kX SB0240 10k2
     and
     Soundflower (16ch)
     
     
   • Put the
     Clock
     button on
     Soundflower (16ch)
     .
     
     
   • Click
     Done
     .
     
     
     
   • Set the
     Default Input
     to
     Aggregate Device
     .
     
     
   • Set the
     Default Output
     to
     Soundflower (16)
     .
     
     
   • Set the
     System Output
     to
     PCI kX SB0240 10k2
     .
     
     
     
   • Under
     Properties For
     , set the pull down menu to
     Aggregate Device
     .
     
     
   • Click
     Configure Speakers
     
     
   • Click
     Multichannel
     and set the pull down menu to
     5.1 Surround
     .
     
     
   • Click
     Done
     .
     
     
     

[*]Go into your Applications and open Soundflowerbed.

• Under the flower shaped icon in the toolbar, under
  Soundflower (16)
  , check
  Aggregate Device
  .
  
  
  

[*]Go to Developer/Applications/Audio and open AU Lab.

• Use the
  + Add Output
  to add two stereo outputs, for a total of three outputs.
  
  
• Hit the
  Next
  Button
  
  
  
• Use the
  + Add Input
  to add one stereo input.
  
  
• Hit the
  Next
  Button
  
  
  
• Change the
  Audio Device
  to
  Aggregate Device
  
  
• Hit the
  Done
  button.
  
  
  
• Click on the small
  2
  and
  3
  boxes, located in the far left of the
  Audio 1
  column.
  
  
  You should now hear all of your speakers working!
  
  
  
• Save this AU Lab file.
  
  
   
  
  
  NOTE: surround sound will only work if the
  AU Labs
  file that you just made is running. You can, however close
  Audio MIDI Setup
  and
  Soundflowerbed
  
  

 

If you have followed the instructions and it just doesn't seem to work or if it used to work an now it doesn't and nothing has changed, you need to repair your permissions. I have used OSXTools and it works like a charm.

 

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Make Your AU Lab File Open on Start Up and then Hide.

1. Save your AU Lab file as MySurround
   
2. Drag it into your start up drive. (it will be in the same folder as Applications, System and Library folders.)
   
3. Download this applescript and put it in your Aapplications folder StartSurround.app
   
4. Open System Preferences and go into Accounts
   
   • Click the
     Login Items
     tab
     
     
   • Click the
     +
     and select the
     StartSurround
     script in your
     Applications
     folder
     
     
   • Check the box next to
     StartSurround
     
     
   • Close
     System Preferences
     
     

When you re-start, your AU Lab file should open and then hide. And your surround sound should work!

 

The AppleScript looks like this:

tell application "Finder"
activate
open document file "MySurround.trak" of startup disk
end tell
tell application "AU Lab" to activate
tell application "AU Lab" to activate
tell application "Finder"
set visible of process "AU Lab" to false
end tell

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The information in this tutorial was collected from many different posts, plus a whole lot of trial and error.

lanxxx's Speaker Fill How to

 

macgirl's [How to] Have sound on all of your speakers

 

Parastie's HOWTO Stereo to Surround upscaling with ANY sound

 

oxtie's Creative SB OSX Driver info here!

[YUNo5.1]

Cerastez, any chance you could recompile these instructions for covering Lion?

Pretty much the entire user interface of Audio MIDI Setup and AU Lab have changed since the making of this tutorial.

And quite frankly I'm lost.