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Drivers Astar Sound Cards & Media Devices -
Drivers Astar Sound Cards & Media Devices Download
NOTE: For Windows drivers, and other hardware and software support for PCs, please contact your OEM system provider.
Every Sound Card has a precise Audio Driver which allows the Sound Card to run smoothly with the Operating System. Audio Drivers can be said to form data connections or data links between the Sound Card (hardware) and the Operating System (software). Sound Cards with correct Audio Drivers will produce sound absolutely from your computer. Many HP Pavilions came with sound cards combined with modem cards. The sound device description will reflect this. If the sound card is a combination card, the modem and its drivers must be removed as well. Otherwise, the modem may fail. Click a sound device title that relates to the brand of audio card. When I ask to reinstall the C-media drivers a notice tells me I have the best drivers now. Btw, the audio worked perfectly in this machine before the windows reinstall so I am pretty sure the problem is not with the Sound card, drivers or the installation CD.
- Sound card drivers and multimedia device drivers are available to be downloaded for free for the Soft32 site. Visit the site today to take advantage! Virtual Sound Card Driver 2.1 Free to try Virtual/fake audio driver to enhance your physical sound card driver. Updated: September 22 nd 2011.
- Audition 3.0 Windows Sound is the default driver, but Adobe recommends that you select an ASIO driver. ASIO is a multichannel protocol that allows compatible software to use the multichannel capabilities of ASIO-compliant sound cards.
Sabre Downloads
Sabre32 Reference | Sabre Reference | Sabre Premier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
ES9018 | ES9012 | ES9008 | ES9006 | |
| RMAF 2011 Presentations by Martin Mallinson | Digital vs. Analog Volume Control and About Jitter: Digital Audio's Weakest Link | |||
| Sabre White Paper (featuring ES9008) | Sabre White Paper | |||
| Sabre Application Note | Maximizing DAC Performance for Every Budget | |||
| 2 Channel Eval Board Schematic | Download | |||
| 2 Channel Eval Board PCB Layout Top | Download | |||
| 2 Channel Eval Board PCB Layout Bottom | Download | |||
| Third Party Comparison Data | Download | |||
| In House Comparison Data | Download (.xls) | |||
| Analog Power Supply Consumption | Download (.xls) | |||
| Software | Description | OS | License | File Date | Comments | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DirectX 9.0c Runtime | Better graphics, faster frame rates, and more immersive audio. | Windows | Freeware | 2004-08-04 | 743 | 75db |
| Sound Blaster Live! Drivers | The latest Sound Blaster Live! drivers for Windows NT | Windows | Freeware | 2000-05-05 | 811 | 75db |
| Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 Drivers | The latest drivers for your Rio player | Windows | Freeware | 1999-02-04 | 743 | 75db |
| AWENT40 | NT 4.0 Drivers for SOUNDBLASTER 16, AWE32, 16PnP, AWE64 | Windows | Freeware | 1999-08-10 | 448 | 70db |
| Megafont | Dynamic SoundFonts caching program for SBLive!/APSLive/APS | Windows | Freeware | 2001-01-17 | 18 | 60db |
| Creative AWE32 Control 2.05 | AWE control panel for Windows 95 | Windows | Freeware | 1996-06-14 | 94 | 60db |
| USB ASIO Driver v2.8.7 | Play your laptop at down to 4ms of latency. | Windows | Shareware | 2008-11-10 | 4 | 60db |
| Digidesign ASIO Driver Beta 5.3.3b1 | Digidesign's Beta ASIO Driver for Windows XP | Windows | Freeware | 2002-11-21 | 9 | 60db |
| The Linux Ultra Sound Project | Project for Gravis UltraSound card and Linux | Linux | Freeware | 1997-08-11 | 81 | 60db |
| Vortex2 Drivers | Reference drivers for Vortex2 (AU8830) based products | Windows | Freeware | 145 | 60db | |
| Rap10 Playback Panel | Control aspects of the Roland RAP-10 audio card's playback | Windows | Freeware | 73 | 55db | |
| gsp | Control Panel for Roland GS and GM MIDI devices | Windows | Freeware | 1996-01-23 | 0 | 50db |
| Digidesign CoreAudio Driver v6.9 | Allows CoreAudio-compatible applications to record and play back. | Mac | Freeware | 2004-11-13 | 0 | 50db |
| mac-midi-adapters | Schematics for Macintosh midi adapters | Mac | Freeware | 1996-02-01 | 19 | 50db |
| M-Audio Delta Drivers 1.2.1 | Contains drivers for this particular MIDI hardware solution. | Mac | Freeware | 2004-10-22 | 1 | 50db |
| MacPlexTool 1.0.1 | Decreases the rotation speed of the CD drives | Mac | Shareware | 2002-02-28 | 0 | 50db |
| SONIC'config 1.0b1 | Configuration software for the Opcode USB audio devices | Mac | Freeware | 2000-07-04 | 0 | 50db |
| Creative SB Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver | Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver. | Windows | Freeware | 2003-11-19 | 2 | 50db |
| Hercules Game Theater XP 7.1 Drivers | Drivers for the Hercules Game Theater XP 7.1. | Windows | Freeware | 2003-02-28 | 4 | 50db |
| RightMark Audio Analyzer 5.3 | Test the audio performance of your sound card. | Windows | Freeware | 2003-01-21 | 0 | 50db |
| Power YMF 2.01 | Tweak your YMF7x4 sound card driver | Windows | Shareware | 2002-06-09 | 0 | 50db |
| VCRadio 1.4 | VCRadio control program for PC FM radio cards | Windows | Shareware | 2 | 50db | |
| RadioActive 1.4.0 | A GNOME/GTK+ front-end for radio tuners | Linux | Freeware | 2002-02-05 | 0 | 50db |
| UASC-1 ASIO driver | Wave Idea UASC-1 ASIO driver | Windows | Freeware | 2003-05-01 | 0 | 50db |
| Dynamic Edge 4.1 604 Driver | Driver for the Dynamic Edge 4.1 604. | Windows | Freeware | 2002-10-26 | 0 | 50db |
| Jam | Xview program to connect GUS to MIDI keyboard | Linux | Freeware | 1996-05-04 | 2 | 50db |
| xpcfm 1.10 | Interface for Gemtek PCFM serial port FM radio | Linux | Freeware | 1998-05-03 | 1 | 50db |
| Mixer v2.30 | Change master and auxillary volumes(cd,fm,dsp,line) of a soundcard | Linux | Free | 2000-06-07 | 2 | 50db |
| Adaptec SCSI Card 2906 Driver v1.3 | Latest driver software for SCSI Card 2906 | Mac | Freeware | 2001-05-24 | 5 | 50db |
| Xradio | fmradio-like program with X interface | Linux | Freeware | 1996-12-06 | 1 | 50db |