Well it can function without a driver as most usb cards with usb can,
but with its drivers it has a better access to its effects.
it has alchahol for older games, 3d tones and other effects.
its 60 dollars and was the only card sold in the shops though there is a
30 dollar version which has less effects, a 15 dollar version with even
less.
There are versions up to 200-300 dollars but I think I had to order
those in, the 60 dollar one I was told was the most popular gaming card
sold in my local computer shop.
There are some caviats though.
1. the source player and bits of the installers are not accessable so
you may need sighted help for those the source player is not useable
nore is the main audio control panel for the card.
There is a secondary panel with some functions to the effects and such
and that works.
alchahol works well though I havn't used that that much.
The updater is a bit inaccessable to get going to.
The registration is inaccessable but as long as you have the serial
number it can be done online and if you have sighted help, the first
time to make your creative online account as long as you know where the
fields are you can login and its good.
The card is quite sensitive to, I would recomend it that if you use it
you plug it in to a usb extention cable and not a hub, if you do plug it
into a hub do not connect cooling desks/ fans/ other types of things
like this as you will pick up their grounding noise from the card.
Also while connected don't knock the card or fiddle with it as it will
pick up noise its about probably its ownly problem.
It will not work for a lot of games, for most modern games my realtech
card I have works.
However connect a pair of good 5.1 surround speakers or 2.1 stereo and
subs to the card, adjust the effects and your music etc will play nicely.
even headphones and a good mic it will record just fine
The effects will not work well with speech if they are set wrongly and
in fact its better with effects off or speech on another card.
Whithout any effects on the card can have a plasticy/ electronic robot
feel when using a screen reader as there is no echo and its just plastic.
Even then its still a good card, though I must admit that with all the
issues mentioned I don't use it as much as I thought I would for general
music use its a really good card and for recording I don't know.
I'd personally get something like the logitech external desktop usb
microphone or well if you have a good mic plug it in the card and see
but keep it away from power bricks, fans and other things directly
connected to the hub its on and you should be ok.
There is also because of being usb a bit of delay between it and the
box, and it may take a bit of time when connected for it to switch.
At times windows may not switch back to the default card.
making the sb card the default may have it switch back and I havn't had
any real issues you shouldn't need to do anything however you may need
sighted help to get sound back or manually switch it witth the card in.
On 6/09/2015 5:28 a.m., Seth Lowman wrote:
Is this a driver, or actually the sound card? Also, how much did it cost?
-----Original Message-----
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Shaun Everiss
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 10:14 PM
To: QWS list
Subject: Re: QWS List Problems with VST Host and QWS
to be honest if you want a mid range consumer card, the sb play by
creative is quite good at least for playback its not a pro card but its
good enough for standard audio, sadly it has no synth.
Thank god synth font.
On 5/09/2015 4:49 p.m., Suman Bhokray wrote:
hi the problem is asio will not work well with realtek soundcard. to
make it work you got to turnoff windows sounds and screenreader on the
realtek sound card which you are using with VSThost. wishes
Suman Bhokray
On 9/5/2015 9:18 AM, Seth Lowman wrote:
I've tried Asio in the past, but It doesn't seem to work well with
the Realtech soundcards. That is, I can't ever get anything to play
out of it. If you use Realtech and could help me get Asio running on
my computer, then
maybe that would fix VST Host.
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Of Andre Louis
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 10:05 AM
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Subject: Re: QWS List Problems with VST Host and QWS
None at all. as I don't use windows 8, there's not a lot I can
personally offer. The only thing I can suggest is probably what
you've tried already and the
most obvious, that being Asio4All.
It may help, but it's quite picky about what sound cards it works
with. PS.
Proteus, not Prodeus...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Lowman" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 5:27 PM
Subject: QWS List Problems with VST Host and QWS
So I'm using midi yoke with VST Host. The problem is, however, that
my VST's are horribly latent when I play them through QWS. I turned
the buffer size down to 70 samples in VST Host, but it's still more
latent than Coolsoft or Prodeus VX. I'm confused as to why this is.
I made sure and disabled all of the midi yoke in ports in QWS. also,
encase this helps, VST
Host doesn't start up where I leave it the last time I used it. Is there
anything I'm Missing? It works fine on my windows 7 computer, but not
on my
windows 8 laptop. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Seth
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