To everyone out there wishing to install a Legacy Sound Card on a Vista system; most of them work just fine unless they have bad drivers. I am using a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Card with a Roland SCC-1 Synth daughtercard and it works like a champ.so does the Roland Card! Your older control software may not function well, or at all, but there is lots of software available that will replace it if all you want to do is manipulate things like frequency responce, sterio source, speakers and effects.some of it 'free!' I'll show you, here, how to get the Santa Cruz working.Most cards will work the same way. If the card is in the computer, remove it and boot Vista with no sound card, then shut down and install your card again. Reboot and tell Vista you have the disk. Alternately, you can go into device manager and select 'sound, video and game controller' (just like XP) and chose to re-install your drivers.

With legacy cards you will have to install a WDM interface driver. For Santa Cruz it is the 21306952 of 4/26/2002 Driver WDM v.4161 Certified by Microsoft. You can get to it at:. After installing it, make sure that the card says: 'enabled.'

Download Turtle Beach Windows Drivers Free. Use the list below to find the correct Turtle Beach Windows driver. Santa Cruz Driver (8).

If Vista tells you the drivers are not signed or are unrecognized (same goes for the sound card), tell it to install anyway! In Control Panel/Sound, check the advance features and enable the features you want and drag the volume slider all the way to the right. The sound card should now work just fine. For Midi, or external Midi device, the only way you can access it is to download and install a very small program that allows you to select which device play which sounds, a feature that was left out of Vista to avoid compatibilty issues with legacy devices. That program is: 'Vista MIDI Fix.exe' You can get it from Microsoft Downloads. It's only a few K-Bytes.

Just like XP, this program can be used to change the default MIDI output device to most any type. Vista's sound subsystem has changed. While this is generally a good thing, some things are noticably missing, such as - at least, in my sound card's case - hardware MIDI support. Alldata Dongle Hack. In fact, the MIDI support is still be there, but unlike on XP where the MIDI output device could be picked from the control panel Vista doesn't provide such an option. With 'Vista Midi Fix.exe' it does. Does it work? In my case, like a dream!

Actually, I run two sound cards in my Vista System and switch between them for different purposes. The everyday card is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality which can handle USB Midi devices and Creation. I use the Santa Cruz and Roland for legacy content playback and true Roland GS instruments and effects. I have a lot of 'GS' music I've created. Santa Cruz is actually good enough to use as a Main Card if you are not heavy into modern gaming.It's a very decent card and it has a Wave table synthesis connector on board. The X-Fi actually has superior sound for general music play back, MP3 and movies or video, Gaming (which I don't do), is of course, stirling and their software bundle is fantastic. I even use Soundblaster software to control the sound of the Santa Cruz.

Something of a surprise from Turtle Beach here, they've released a new Beta WDM Driver for the Santa Cruz for Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 & XP - Build 4184 (Previous Build 4161). Here's what's new; * Optimized Installer. Removes old driver & installs new one without having to run the install twice.

Also installs in 98SE/ME/2K/XP. * MP9 5.1 support under XP.

Now you can play multi-channel WMA files! * SRS CSII Virtual 5.1 plugin for MP9 works with this driver. * AC3 digital over SPDIF working in 98SE (with MS QFE 269601USA8.EXE) * Fixed game port conflict with MPX motherboards. * Enhanced MIDI playback with better timing & fixed region exclusive(hihats).

Hsmworks Keygen Ssq. * Fixed DSound volume scaling. Now distant sounds in games are more audible. * Fixed distortion/intermittant noise playing multiple channels at various sample rates.

* Fixed Center/Sub volumes to better match front/rear output levels. * synced up the windows speaker modes with Santa Cruz Control Panel. * Optimized boot time & resume from standby times.