There are better USB solutions of course, but I think this one is the best consumer soundcard from Creative. I'm giving out rating 4/5 because this card, even with some minor problems, it still much better than the X-Fi USB cards on today's market. Volume control also makes broadcasting easier than before, but this one is also software based. Microphone preamplifier gives very good results, much better than one on my Audigy 2 ZS. Its functionality, however, is software based. The package also contains remote controller. Midi support is also good, using SoundFont Bank Manager, you can load samples from another SB cards. However it is not working well with Asio4All. creative usb sound blaster audigy 2 nx driver update. At 24/96 it can hit pretty good latencies like 2-3ms in duplex mode without so much pops and gliches. Creative technology sb audigy sb0240 audigy 2 platinum windows 10 drivers. But the USB ASIO driver from SB0490 can be used.

When it comes to recording features, the ASIO driver wasn't supplied. Although it supports USB 2.0, has optical in, 7.1 support, Dolby Digital decoding and support for older systems like 98/ME. Compared to SB Live 24bit External with 0.7W, this one has definitely the greatest power consumption.Ībout its functionality, it's not so different from mentioned SB Live 24bit Ext ernal (SB0490). When using external adapter, this is usually not a problem, but when using batteries (4xAA 2000mAh), the unit will lasts only for 2 hours. What was also little disappointing, that the card drains immersive amount of power (approx. The DSP actually give you for example CPU-Free processing, hardware FX support and Treble/Bass functionality in windows kmixer. What interests me, that this card doesn't have any DSP processor.

Introduced in 2003, this card is somewhat obsolete by now, however still doing much better than recent X-Fi USB solutions.

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