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Welcome to the Emu10kx Independent Programmers Site	visitors since 15.03.2001
This site has been put together in an effort to encourage independent development of new applications to support and enhance the functionality of the Emu10k1-based soundcards, most notably E-mu Systems' Audio Production Studio soundcard and Creative Labs' SoundBlaster Live series of soundcards.

News

31.12.01

The EIP site is proud to announce that the long-awaited independent WDM drivers have finally been released to the public! The kX Driver can now be downloaded from the kX Project website.
Please note that the kX Project is an independent development project and that the development cycle will be continuous, i.e. no Alpha, Beta, or Gold releases, simply progressive updates as new features are added and the inevitable bugs are fixed.
With this in mind, be aware that the kX Drivers are in a relatively early state of development, with many features on the "to do" list (including many aspects of ASIO functionality and completion of APS support). On the other hand, an impressive amount of work has already been done and development is continuing at a rapid pace, with new features typically being added on a weekly basis.
The motto of the kX Project is "Expanding the Potential Exponentially" - there will always be room for improvement and enhancement and the kX Project intends to lead the way.
Happy New Year!

14.11.01

You may wonder why it's been so quiet around here recently... well, there's something really BIG in the works; fully functional, independent, alternative WDM drivers for *all* emu10kx-based soundcards!
Yes, a cool new driver set is scheduled to be released before this year is out, and here's a list of features which are already either fully supported or partially supported: Wave Recording & Playback, Midi In/Out, DirectSound 2D, DirectSound 3D (partial), Soundfonts, Synth Engine, ASIO Playback (with 5ms latency), DSP Microcode Loading/Unloading, Mixer with full AC97 I/O control, and last but not least, an Application Programming Interface (API).
Stay tuned for more details.

19.09.01

Something for LiveWare. Experimental sblfx.dll patch, inverts phase of signal coming to digital outputs. Well, for now it's only for the 4.06.01.0801 version of the dll.

06.08.01

Looks like our old web-board host went bust, so we've relocated the wwwboard here.
Max needed a quick and dirty tool to read/write *any* of SBLive registers (i.e. even ones that cannot be viewed with fxviewer - pcifun0; all of the Emu10k1 and AC97 codec registers), so here's the result - a simple Emu10k1 I/O shell (coded in one day), able to read and write to the chip without any APIs, DLLs, drivers, etc. (thanks to Alex Sidow for his _asm method). We don't know if anyone will ever use/need it, but you can find it here. ;-)

11.06.01

Two new utilities are now available for use with APS Drivers. The first, Auxin2, is a variant of the Allinput utility for use with the LiveDriveII. The second, MO Dream, is intended to be used for muting dry signal sends to the master bus, while maintaining Fx sends (useful for "10-output" and other special setups). Both of these utilities are additions to the Aps15Api example series.

05.06.01

Here's a link that was sent to us by a contact who wishes to remain anonymous. Is it for real? Well, it looks pretty damned convincing. Either it's real, or somebody has *way* too much time on their hands. You be the judge.
A new APS multi-output patch utility will be available soon, allowing access to 10 discreet outputs when using the APS ASIO drivers (up from a previous maximum of 8).

08.05.01

Based on statements made by Creative founder Sim Wong Hoo, it would appear that the emu10k2-based "Audigy" card (together with UDA drivers) may not be out until September 2001, at the earliest.

This is assuming of course that when he said "A new and 'very exciting' SoundBlaster product is expected to be ready in September", he was indeed talking about the Audigy and not the "Broadband Blaster" (whatever *that* may be..).

Only time will tell. ;-)

In the meantime, we'd like to retract our earlier prediction that the Audigy "..is expected to feature, among other things, on-board memory expansion slots". Looks like this was mis-information.

On the other hand, we stand by our other predictions and would like to add to them. Looks like we may get AWE NRPN support (don't throw out yer Phatboy just yet ;-), sysex for soundfonts, and selectable digital output (44/48/96KHz) . Yes, the Audigy will likely be a 20/96 (or possibly 24/96) card.

Btw, this is all still "rumour and speculation". ;-)
Updated APS LiveMixer now available here, with added support for systems using "large fonts" (sorry about the delay TMM..).

27.04.01

We've managed to get our original Tripod site back (will the wonders ever cease? ;-). However, if you want to bookmark this page, please use our re-direct address instead - http://go.to/emu10k1 (and *not* http://emu10k1.tripod.com), because the actual host address may have to change again in the future.

11.04.01

We have it upon good authority that a set of new drivers, based on a "Unified Driver Architecture" will be available from Creative Labs sometime between now and July 2001.

These drivers will support all Emu10k1-based cards, including both the current and the older SBLive series cards, as well as the Emu APS soundcard, under win95/98/ME/NT as well as win2K. Both VxD and WDM device drivers will be included.

The UDA drivers will also form the driver base for the forthcoming "Audigy" (Emu10k2) soundcard series, which is expected to feature, among other things, on-board memory expansion slots (no more 32MB hardware limit on soundfonts) and an optional daughter card, the "LiveDrive3".

Driver features will include ASIO support, multi-card support, Soundfont 2.1 support, more MIDI-mappable effects, and AC3 decoding. The new drivers are likely to present an outward appearance very similar to that of the current LiveWare3 package, with a nearly identical "AudioHQ" Control Panel Applet user interface and a familiar-looking EAX control panel.

Unfortunately, once again, it seems that the new cards and drivers will be aimed primarily at the lucrative gamers market, and are unlikely to provide the control and flexibility of the VxD-based APS drivers.
On the other hand, we could be wrong about all of this, so don't quote us on it... ;-)

04.04.01

Something completely new. The unofficial Aps15Api is now available. It's an SDK-like package, meant to help independent programmers in exploring the DSP programming possibilities of the E-mu APS Drivers. This is an alpha/incomplete/preview-only version provided by developers for developers, and is part of our ongoing effort to prevent other emu10k1 independent programmers from wasting any time or energy on investigating things which we have already explored. Have fun with this!
Also, for those people who don't want to bother with programming, one of the example utilities included with the Aps15Api is available for download separately. The Allinput utility makes it possible to access all of the Emu10k1 chip inputs with Econtrol, and is specifically targeted at users of the various LiveDrives who have been complaining about losing some of their inputs. This is an example only, but its source code is included in the Aps15Api and may help other programmers to write something more user-friendly.
The new TMM AC97 codec mixer is now available for download here.

23.03.01

TMM has resurfaced! Revised (improved & bug-fixed) AC97 core code now available (also on the APS/APSLive page); New AC97 codec mixer application (similar to CrossMixer) with Econtrol-style GUI should be available soon. Stay tuned.
Fixed broken link to SsceneME (zip file got lost in the shuffle when we had to move the site - sorry 'bout that). Note that this is not a new version.
Added a link to Grasso's site - "Home recording and Audio for Freaks". Grasso knows his stuff.

16.03.01

APStoy v0.5a, with new User Strip mappings, is now available for download on the APStoy page. Been a long time coming, but we got a nice positive and encouraging email message from a user the other day and, well, that's all it took (thanks Mike - enjoy ;-).

15.03.01

We have a new URL! (err....doh!) Since Tripod decided we were persona non grata we've gone with a redirect (just like our friends at come.to/sblive and listen.to/sblive ;-).If you're going to bookmark us, use http://go.to/emu10k1. Don't bother with bookmarking any other of the URLs you might get redirected to; they could disappear without warning, as we've just found out.
A new version of FxViewer is available now, with full SBLive compatibility and many new features.
We're working away on a new mixer for the APS and may release the preliminary APS15API if there's sufficient interest. Stay tuned.
New hardware page added. So far just some Emu10k1 patent info & illustrations...

19.12.00

FxViewer v0.10 by Max M. is now available for download! Check out this cool FX8010 spy utility here.
FxToy project page added, here.
DSP page updated, here.

29.11.00

FxToy v0.2a released. A couple of new functions have been added, and the programID range has been extended to include all 32 pre-loaded Fx programs (FxToy is a testing utility, providing access to some of the FxEngineServer functions). FxToyv0.2a is available here.

20.11.00

APStoy v0.4a released. New in v0.4a are combo boxes on the Misc page which extend the Aux bus effects assignment possibilities. *Compressor and EQ now available as Aux bus inserts*. Get APStoy v0.4a here.

17.11.00

FxToy v0.1a released. FxToy is a testing utility, providing access to some of the FxEngineServer functions. FxToyv0.1a is available here.

03.11.00

Site overhaul & minor updates. If you have any ideas or suggestions for improvements, contact us at the forum, or join the mailing list & let us know.
Original AWEtoy source code is now available upon request, thanks to Geo Pertea himself! This is 16-bit Delphi1 code; if you'd like to help out with adding SBLive support, or porting to 32-bit, please let us know.