Upgrade: Sound Card.

[wivane]

Hello everyone,

I want to buy a new internal soundcard. for my windows side this is simple. For OS X i dont know if i can simply buy any old soundcard and install it or whether it has to be specifics.

I would like to buy an Asus Strix SOAR 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card but not if it will not work with my OS X partition.

Could anyone confirm whether this works or not? Or suggest one that would work?

kind regards,

wivane

 

[nobodynose]

Hello everyone,

I want to buy a new internal soundcard. for my windows side this is simple. For OS X i dont know if i can simply buy any old soundcard and install it or whether it has to be specifics.

I would like to buy an Asus Strix SOAR 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card but not if it will not work with my OS X partition.

Could anyone confirm whether this works or not? Or suggest one that would work?

kind regards,

wivane

This question has been asked many times before - basically, there are none, or very few, consumer-grade PCIe sound cards with drivers for OS X. There are several professional-grade PCIe cards, including models from ESI Audiotechnik (http://www.esi-audio.com/), RME Audio (http://www.rme-audio.de/), and Lynx Studio Technology (http://www.lynxstudio.com/). And of course there are quite a few Firewire (older), USB, and Thunderbolt options in the professional realm. The other option is of course a USB "sound stick", many of which work OOB with OS X, and they're dirt cheap! Here's a thread listing several that work: http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/simple-plug-n-play-usb-audio-device-for-os-x.98115/.

 

[VioletDragon]

The sound blaster works with the KXDriver which still works in 10.11 perfectly fine. Its a PCI Sound card not a PCI-E. https://github.com/kxproject/kX-Audio-driver-binaries

 

[VioletDragon]

Ive just dug my creative sound blaster audigy 2 out of the draw and installed it. I actually forgot how good it sounds compared to onboard You can pick them up on eBay pretty cheap.
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[ITzTravelInTime]

there is one consumer grade pcie sound card that works with latest mac os x and kx driver, it is the sound blaster audigy rx, i have one of that, the output works fine, but the driver has no supporto for audio input like microphones, and also the card is not detected properly (the drivers sees it as generic sound card), i am working on a mod of the kx driver that recognizes the audigy rx, i will post it soon, for now with the actual drivers it works

 

[ITzTravelInTime]

I published a mod of the driver for sound blaster cards, more info here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...mod-sound-blaster-live-audigy-124rx-emu-edsp/

 

[VioletDragon]

I published a mod of the driver for sound blaster cards, more info here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...mod-sound-blaster-live-audigy-124rx-emu-edsp/

It needs more than a mod. The KX Drivers are out of date. Need to be re-written.

 

[ITzTravelInTime]

i have seen all of the apple documentation and I have not seen any real alternative method to implement pci audio drivers using non deprecated stuff, but the good news is that there is not the need to rewrite all the driver, only the part that is used with Mac because the driver uses a modular structure that works for both Mac and windows, and then show specific parts for the 2 platforms, so it may be done without rewriting the hall thing, but I think it's better to ask also help to some one that is more expert than me in writing driver for OS X, because the driver is a lot complex, but for now it works on Sierra

 

[jaymack]

Ive just dug my creative sound blaster audigy 2 out of the draw and installed it. I actually forgot how good it sounds compared to onboard You can pick them up on eBay pretty cheap.
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Are you running Sierra?

 

[VioletDragon]

Are you running Sierra?

No. Sierra has issues. Im till running 10.11.6.