Hello, Windows 7 had a public beta, gained lots of user acceptance, and was released a few days ago on Oct 22 to the general retail public.
I have an audigy 2 ZS platinum. It is a PCI card with a front panel breakout for midi, 1/4 jack in, headphone jack and such. Worked well in Windows XP. On Windows 7 the recording support isn't there. There is no level control or inputs recognized by recording applications in the "stable" driver, and strange distortion and massive latency in the latest beta driver. Creative's web site doesn't acknowledge that Windows 7 has left the beta stage behind. Reading the forums, I can't see an alternate product designed for recording work, from Creative, which is working OK in Windows 7. Creative's FAQ and such on Windows 7 has not been touched since March 2009 (as of this writing). I've checked websites at Tascam, Roland and E-MU (division of Creative). Many products only support Windows XP. That version of WIndows has entered the first stage of deprecation by Microsoft. Updates are made for WIn XP only once per month now. The security model on XP is also weak. For these reasons I'm wanting to move along to a better supported OS. Does anyone have suggestions on a good PCI card based product for 1/4 inch jack recording work having Windows 7 support? Firewire might be another alternate. I've tried USB powered devices like M-Audio and I'm not impressed with the signal to noise ratio. --Donald To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
