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Sound Blaster Live

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Apr 23, 2012
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Hi -

I have the Sound Blaster Live for Mac in an old G3.
I'm thinking about putting it in my G5 but I know they never made OS X drivers for it, just for OS 9.

I came across this http://kxproject.com/ Its independent development project making sound card drivers for Mac and Windows.

Has anyone tried this and would it work for the Mac Sound Blaster live card ?

Thanks
 
As far as I know, no.

kX Project's Mac drivers only work on Intel Macs, not PowerPC Macs.

Creative Labs never made much headway on the Mac, people either used the Mac's built-in sound (which was quite good,) or a much higher end (usually external FireWire) audio interface.
 
I see.

Would you happen to know if those external usb sound cards (5.1/7.1) are any good (and work with Mac's) ?

Thanks
 
Since i have some experience working with mac drivers, i have started a project attempting at porting the kx audio driver to ppc macs, for now i haven't managed to make a working driver, but the kext i have made starts and there is sample rate and volume/mute change working. Neither playback or recording are working at the moment and that's very hard to figure out why, the code is very comples and it makes a lot of x86 assumptions (mostly reguarding the byte order for more than 1-byte-long values) and so finding what's wrong is very difficoult.

That said if i make any significant progress i will post it here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ries-driver-os-x-ppc-porting-project.2287424/

In the thread there is also a link to the github repo with the source code.

About system requirements the final driver will most likely need os x leopard, since it uses a newer version of the audio kpi.
 
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Sure, but for that i own an rme card digi96/8 pad, also i have successfully ported the hackintosh driver for my terratec producer phase 22 and i am using both. I mean am a programmer wanting to get his sound card collection working on os x on his g4, also if i succeed with the sound blaster cards those can be bought for dirt cheap on ebay and could be a viable upgrade for leopard users, including pcie G5 users with the audigy rx.
 
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Update, i managed to make a working OS X PowerPC Driver build of the kx audio driver, so you can have most sound blaster live and audigy cards working on your beloved PPC macs. As of now my driver only works with OS X Tiger Server (and not the consumer version of tiger, for some wired reason), but i have decided to release it anyway to let people have a go at it, here is the GitHub download: https://github.com/ITzTravelInTime/kx-audio-driver/releases/tag/PPC_1.0

Plase Plase Please read the release notes first, because this release has a lot of limitations you have to know about.

That said i hope you enjoy it, it has been a long and frustrating project but i am happy to having succeeded at it. Consider starring the project on GitHub and following me on my socials.
 
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