Comments on: Creative extigy on Mac OS X doesn’t support 5.1 surround sound

By: dan man

dan man — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:06:30 +0000

surround sound is great for the fact it gives up a movie experience. i think as time goes on theyll be less expensive. i recently purchases one for 50$ on amazon great quality and very affordable.

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:20:14 +0000

Although I’m late to this post, it did put me on the right track. I still like my Extigy and really wanted to use it as my audio output device for a mac mini based media centre.

USB did actually work for a bit, then was “cut off” again by some OS update.

The TOSLINK optical cable did the trick. Also works a treat with the Plex media server .

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:54:47 +0000

Yeah just like I said…
You need to install soundflowerbed, and select that in your system preferences under sound output.
And when you then want to have real 5,1 on dvds and stuff. open dvd-player and go to preferences and set the output to Digital output.
When you’re done watching the movie, just restart soundflower bed, and you are good to go..

Ohyeah. soundflowerbed I use with these settings : 16Ch -> built in out-put.
And channel 1 to 5 on output [1]
..

So far… so goood

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:38:12 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

Just read the thread, cause i have a Soundblaster Extigy and a macbook pro too .

You managed to use it by installing Soundflowerbed and using a optical cable, am i right? And can you controll the volume on the Soundblaster with that solution?

thx for helping out

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:11 +0000

@Cymmer
@Cohen

I have 5.1 and it works perfectly. movies with 5.1 sound tracks play them like they should..
Like i said before.. i use the extigy with the optical out.
NO USB -> NO DRIVERS

Works perfect they way i have it..

By: mr audio

mr audio — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:10:47 +0000

Great ! I think surround sound systems give us cinema experience in our own home. That’s why it becomes ever more popular and affordable.

By: Cohen

Cohen — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:32:33 +0000

Hey Cymmer,

I do not think you will get 5.1 surround sound with the extigy and mac mini because there are no drivers for the extigy on the mac.

If the mac mini has optical out you can use that instead of the usb connection and then you may get 5.1.

If not you will have to find a 5.1 card that has mac osx drivers.

By: cymmer

cymmer — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:07:32 +0000

hey, just read it, I’m surprising!! oh, first, sorry for my bad english

Recently I’ve buyed an extigy usb sound card to connect with my mac mini, with leopard 10.5.7. I’ve could to configure it with stereo sound, not with 5.1, my extigy has not the remote controller

I’ve read a lot of surfing internet and nothing, I cannot configure 5.1 dolby surround with my dvd movies

what can I do? Anybody help me? said me anything…???? oh god!!!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:02:27 +0000

Hey there !

Great news! I got it to work!
I did install a program called: Soundflowerbed. To be able to control iTunes volume with my keyboard.
When playing music i put my logitech set on 50% of the sound and with movies 100%, because it just isnt loud enough for me, but hey, thats not a big problem

Dolby Surround for the win

I’m so glad this works. Im just thinking of buying an universal remote so that i can use just one instead of two,.

By: Cohen

Cohen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:51:56 +0000

You wouldn’t need the USB connection and you shouldn’t need an amplifier. I guess that might depend on your speaker setup, but if its a bog standard speaker set, that you’d normally plug straight in to your pc or something, no amplifier would be needed.