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1 How to use this manualCreative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Important: this User manual (On CD) has been designed to provide you with complete product knowledge. The following are instructions on how to make use of this manual effectively by launching applications and help files, as well as accessing relevant web sites, where applicable, via specially prepared links. To launch applications, Help files or to access relevant web sites, click the blue text, or whenever the symbol or appears on the object or text.

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5 XPackage Contents ..xiSystem Requirements ..xiSound Blaster Audigy 2 card ..xiSB1394 applications, games or DVD viewing .. xiiInternet Multimedia and Entertainment .. xiiGetting More xiiMore Help .. xiiTechnical Support .. xiiDocument xiii1 Installing HardwareWhat You Need .. 1-1 Your Sound Blaster Audigy 2 1-2 Your Joystick/MIDI Bracket .. 1-5 Installation Steps .. 1-6 Step 1: Prepare your computer .. 1-6 Step 2: Install the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 1-7 Step 3: Install the Joystick/MIDI bracket.

6 1-8 Step 4: Connect cables to Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card .. 1-9 Step 5: Connect to power outlet ..1-10 Connecting Related 1-11 Connecting Speaker Systems .. 1-14 Connecting External Consumer Devices .. 1-15 Positioning Your Speakers ..1-172 Installing SoftwareInstalling Drivers and 2-1ivSound Blaster Audigy 2 Feature Showcase 2-2 Uninstalling and Reinstalling the Applications and Device Drivers .. 2-2 Reinstalling all Audio Drivers and Applications .. 2-2 Uninstalling all Audio Drivers and Applications.

7 2-3 Installing/Uninstalling selected Audio Drivers or 2-4 Updating Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2) .. 2-5 Updating Windows 98 SE .. 2-5 Installing Digital Video 2-53 Using Audigy 2 SoftwareCreative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Applications .. 3-2 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Getting Started Demo .. 3-2 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Feature Showcase 3-2 SoundFont Showcase .. 3-3 Introduction to the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 software suite .. 3-3 Creative MediaSource Go! .. 3-3 Creative MediaSource Go! Launcher .. 3-4 Creative MediaSource 3-4 Creative MediaSource 3-5 Finding and organizing songs.

8 3-5 Keep your music database up to date ..3-5 Transferring songs ..3-5 Automatically playing multimedia and converting music on recordable CD ..3-6 Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio 3-6 Creative EAX Console .. 3-7 Audio Effects: Environmental Sound Processing ..3-7 CMSS 3D: Simulating Surround Clean-up: Removing noise and Scaling: Varying the speed of playback ..3-8vCreative Surround Mixer .. 3-9 Creative Speaker Settings .. 3-9 Creative Speaker Calibrator .. 3-9 Creative MiniDisc Center .. 3-9 Creative SoundFont Bank Manager.

9 3-10 Creative Audio Stream Recorder 2 ..3-10 Creative Wave Studio ..3-11 Diagnostic and troubleshooting Diagnostics ..3-11 Creative Speaker Settings ..3-12viAppendixesAGeneral SpecificationsFeatures .. A-1 PCI Bus Mastering .. A-1 Audigy Processor .. A-1 High Quality Audio A-1 Professional Digital Audio A-2 Flexible Mixer A-2 Dolby Digital (AC-3) A-3 Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) .. A-3SB1394 A-3 Connectivity .. A-3 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card .. A-3 Audio Inputs .. A-3 Audio Outputs.

10 A-4SB1394 Interfaces .. A-4 Interfaces .. A-4 BTroubleshooting and FAQsProblems Installing Software .. B-1 Problems with B-2 Problems with File Transfers on Some VIA Chipset Motherboards .. B-6 Insufficient SoundFont Cache .. B-7 Problems with B-8 Problems with Multiple Audio Devices .. B-9 Problems with Sound Blaster Live! Series or Sound BlasterPCI512 B-10 Resolving I/O B-11 Problems with Encore DVD Player .. B-12 Problems with Software DVD Player .. B-12 Problems with DV driver for Windows 98 SE/2000/Me/XP.