Where to find vxd drivers for sblive ?

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Hi,

I think my biggest mistake was to try building a good pc system under windows XP for making music (Renoise based of course :)).

The used the latest drivers for my sblive! platinum, but still the line 2 input doesn’t work (just nothing can be heard), stupid gigastudio doesn’t want to see my sblive because it’s a WDM driver and not vxd. I don’t know the difference but it seems that the vxd driver is not available on Creative’s website. If anyone could provide me with a good link or so…

I tried to switch to Kontakt, but it seems it has lots of problems (maybe it’s because of XP ?) It’s damn slow for loading big patches (around 2 minutes for the Gigapiano, I have Athlon tb 1Ghz and 640 mb of RAM). Then I don’t know if it’s because of renoise but it doesn’t behave good at all with the instruments, it sends key-offs every now and then and don’t let the notes finish… It’s pretty annoying…

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driverguide

JR B)

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have you already tried the kx drivers?
or don’t they work with giga?

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They don’t work at all… They f*cked up my system and refused to install OR uninstall properly. I had to re-install sblive driver on top of them…

There does not seem to be a REAL working alternative to Gigastudio when working with Renoise. (Kontakt is buggy as hell, or at least with renoise, and Halion is hell slow and complex…). :(

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and what about VSampler?
it loads all the important formats, it can stream from disk and best of all it can be run as standalone app and load vst-fx.

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Ho ! Don’t know about that one ! I guess I have to try it out !

Thanks !

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arrrg :(
Vsampler doesn’t support .GIG files…

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oh sorry to hear i thought it would…

well the upcoming virtual sampler 3 definately supports .gig (says the webpage). there’s a beta to download, don’t know if it’s timelimited or if save is disabled…

if you don’t have really a lot .gig files you could convert them with awave into a supported format… ?

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hell is not buggy :)

by the way, what do you mean by “buggy”?

what do you experience exactly?

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Hi :)

first I didn’t try Kontakt outside of Renoise.

But in Renoise I’m experiencing kind of the same problems some of us have when playing on a midi keyboard in Renoise. Some notes get an instant KEY OFF when triggered… I loaded some tunes I started with Gigapiano and other “lighter” samples, same problems. It doesn’t not sound the same, the “keyoffs” especially happen when triggering 3 or more notes at a time for chords. These annoying problems happen when playing on the keyboard/synth AND during Renoise’s playback as well. So it’s absolutely not usable.

Gigapiano also takes ages to fire-up in Kontakt, up to probably 2 or minutes compared to Gigastudio that loads it in a few seconds (probably because of direct to disk ?).

My config =>
Ahtlon TB 1 Ghz, RAM:640 mb
Windows XP (Sorry I promess this will never happen again :D )
Sblive! Platinum (was very happy with it until I swapped to XP recently
:angry: ).

I thinks that’s all…
:)

PS: Is there a way to use Kontakt not as a VSTi but as a midi synth via a virtual midi port (like gigastudio) ? Thanks.