11011001 stopped by one of the other forums, so I thought I would post info for you folks as well. Hopefully this will give a little bit of hope to people who bought the SB Live card.
Brian Souder
Creative
creativemail@mac.com
UPDATE 1:
My latest info is that the inputs are now working on the drivers I am putting together with some other people. I have not run the driver myself yet, so don't get too excited yet. They are optimized for 10.2, and the first Beta may not be far off. Initially it will only give you basic I/O. They are going to be put together modularly so that we can re-use code to possibly do an Audigy card driver later on.
UPDATE 2:
I received additional information this morning that they have some of the PCM channels for sound output working, and they are currently trying to bind the volume sliders to their respective addresses on the card. One of the programmers is on vacation this week, but things should continue moving forward as planned.
They also reported that the card has an extremely low latency. This may be because there is very little work being done by the card, but hopefully the trend will continue. The code is being optimized for OS X 10.2 (? - Jaguar), but apparently works on previous versions of the of the OS - I would imagine only back to 10.1.0 since Apple added a lot of the audio stuff in that release.
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NOTE TO PERSPECTIVE USERS:
When we get the basic I/O working, you will be able to start using the card again. Many of the advanced features will be added over time. One of my goals is to add an auto update feature to the software like Apple's Software Update. Hopefully this will make it easier to pull in new features, as they become available.
As with any BETA software, I would recommend that you have a separate OS X partition to test on. While I am a Creative employee, Creative does not have anything to do with these drivers and WILL NOT support them at this time. Remember you will be using these at your own risk, so I would seriously not have anything valuable on the same drive in case you have to reformat.
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