New Creative X-FI beta drivers available..

[Ravens Nest]

Yippee new drivers for the X-FI available

The only problem is there beta.... but last for 120 days so not too sad

http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/downloads/

[unreal]

Thanks a lot bro Actually I've had no complaint with the X-Fi card/software all this time UP UNTIL TODAY :/ It's funny, I needed to try Rewire with my music software Reason with a VST compatible host, so I tried Fruity Loops, but I didn't know how to switch MIDI channels on Fruity Loops - which meant I couldn't use the VST plug in (Orchestral) properly Cubase finally did it, but, apparently theres a huge issue with Cubase and X-Fi cards involving latency :@ And for like 3 hours today I was fiddling with buffer sizes and all sorts trying to get the latency gone (and some custom ASIO driver thing) and nothing even improved it

So yeh I hope this aids at least that problem...

[Ravens Nest]

No problem, hope this driver helps..

I dont personally have any experience with the X-FI and music creation software, sorry.

I know this is a silly question but did you make sure you switch to "Audio creation mode" via the creative audio console?

I find it strange that your having latency problems using ASIO as that should be the correct standard, oh well.

My brother is using REASON, Logic Audio Pro 5 and rewire together to create his music, but he has an EMU0404 (Which is like an early version of the X-FI) but only for music.
Actually i have a link to his music at the bottom of my sig if your interested

[unreal]

I know I thought it was strange too... and yeah I use audio creation mode when I've got the software open

The reason that I've made such a basis upon it though is that people seem to have the exact same problem all over the net, and there are even big posts on it in the Creative forums themselves.

However I looked on the release notes, and there are lots of Cubase and ASIO involved fixes, so I hope it worked


The music on that page is the business by the way, nice one - mine is www.myspace.com/unrealbeatz harhar

[Lee H]

Hmmph

Nice to see another manufacturer ignore MCE2005 and just release a bunch of beta drivers for windows XP.

I've had no issues regarding ASIO and latency with ableton

[Ravens Nest]

Thanks unreal, my brother would appreciate that i'll let him know and pass on your Myspace account as well.

Nice mediteranean or arabian nights feel to "No acclaim" like it

[Ravens Nest]

Hmmph

Nice to see another manufacturer ignore MCE2005 and just release a bunch of beta drivers for windows XP.

I've had no issues regarding ASIO and latency with ableton

Tee hee shows you how much i know about music creation, it was Ableton live 5 my brother uses with reason and rewire

[unreal]

Yeah I downloaded the Ableton trial today, my uncle keeps urging me to try it, it isn't too expensive too (compared to others anyhow)... but it looks good and I don't get the latency problem I did with Cubase, so it seems cubase is the ONLY program to experience it so far which does show some kind of bug. However, I got the new drivers installed so I might reinstall Cubase to see how it goes....

Thanks unreal, my brother would appreciate that i'll let him know and pass on your Myspace account as well.

Nice mediteranean or arabian nights feel to "No acclaim" like it

Thanks much I used to have a good Promiscuous music video on there until it got taken down

[bledd]

they've got a 120day timeout on them, but i read somewhere that they're releasing new official drivers at the end of june..

i'm using these beta's and they seem cool so far

there's a lot of bug fixes in the release notes (a LOT)

[andyjhill]

thanks for this been waiting for creative labs to sort out this driver

[Ravens Nest]

No problem , Didnt think there was so many X-FI owners on HEXUS, i was wrong

[Smokey21]

Hmmm, think ill keep the current one's. ive got no problems here. Xi-Fi Plat.

[Syd]

Is there any reason for a gamer/mp3 user to change to these drivers?

as I don't think i've had any problems with the existing set.

[unreal]

Not really, if you haven't had much problems then don't change. However check the changelog, some of the changes may fancy your pick, such as BF2 changes etc, and one fix I noticed was to let Prey actually work (assuming once the demo/game comes out, the card doesn't cause instability)

[Syd]

Not really, if you haven't had much problems then don't change. However check the changelog, some of the changes may fancy your pick, such as BF2 changes etc, and one fix I noticed was to let Prey actually work (assuming once the demo/game comes out, the card doesn't cause instability)

Hmmm thanks for that, will have a look