Put Life Back Into That Old Soundcard with KX Project Drivers

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Put Life Back Into That Old Soundcard with KX Project Drivers.

Thu 1 November 2007
03:21pm
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Want to start making music with your computer? So you get yourself some software and a keyboard with a MIDI connection to your computer. But when you start to play that keyboard you realise that when you play the note on the keyboard it doesn’t play the note on the computer until a second later because of a delay caused by the latency of the card. This is what happened to me about 6 years ago when I started making music with a computer, I had a Soundblaster Live back then which came with the computer and the MIDI latency was around 130ms which is pretty unplayable. So I thought there was nothing else I could do but go and buy a brand new soundcard.

That’s when I first came across

The KX Project. A set of drivers that “Expands The Potential” of any

EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based soundcards. Anyway I gave them a try and uninstalled the ones that came from Creative Labs.

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I could not believe what a difference a set of drivers could do to my system. Suddenly my soundcard could cope with 5.33ms latency. I couldn’t believe it. It was as if the manufacturer had purposely slowed down the card to sell other more expensive “musician” cards on purpose.

So anyone starting out who can’t afford to buy a top of the range sound card and all you need is good latency and only a couple of inputs and you have one of

the supported cards. I would suggest giving

The KX Project Drivers a try. You might just be amazed like I was.

Article written by

Edward Cufaude for Rhythm Creation.

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