| Re: Help: Soundblaster Live! 24-bit USB External with Window Vista OS
Fore, if you'll look at the thread I linked in post #2, you might find some help.
Short answer, I've not found a way to use the Creative software with Vista. Creative only provides drivers, so I'm guessing they don't plan to ever address this for Live-Ext and older cards. It may be that they simply can't get the "older" cards to be completely functional with the Vista sound API...MS did a major overhaul. I fault Creative for saying the Live-Ext works with Vista, but not specifying the limitations.
You can still get to most of the Live-Ext's features via right clicking the volume icon on your toolbar and choosing Play/Record Devices. The dialog box that appears will allow you to get into the invidual "properties" of each device to enable/disable/configure settings.
With a bit of fiddling, you can get it to work. I've compared the same Live-Ext/cables/meter using different XP and Vista laptops. Calibrations were statistically identical between the two OSes despite the REW calibration level difficulties you'll find with Vista.
-Brent
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