OSX86 sound card drivers

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Envy24HT

The following sound cards are supported by the Envy24HT driver:

Sound card

Analogue I/O

Digital I/O

Controls

MIDI

Comments

Terratec Aureon Sky

yes

Output tested

-

no

Terratec Aureon Space

yes

?

-

no

Terratec Phase 22

yes

?

Input gain + output volume + mute

no

Terratec Phase 28

yes

?

-

no

M-Audio Revolution 5.1 

yes

?

Input gain + output volume + mute

no

M-Audio Revolution 7.1

yes

?

Output volume + mute

no

Codec does NOT have input gain controls!

M-Audio Audiophile 192 

yes

Output tested

Output volume

no

ESI Juli@

yes

?

Output volume + mute

no

Codec does NOT have input gain controls!

Audiotrak 7.1

yes

?

-

no

not XT/ Hifi!

Audiotrak Prodigy HD2

yes

?

-

no

no sample rate change!

Cards that aren't listed will NOT work! Note that digital output is probably working for all Envy24HT cards.

You can download the latest version here: 

Files Changes

Envy24HT0.11.0.dmg (for OSX 10.5.x)

Envy24HT_SnowLeopard.0.11.0.dmg (for OSX 10.6.x, 32 and 64-bit)

Added output volume controls for Audiophile 192
Added two kpi dependencies for 10.5 build which may solve some installation issues.

Envy24HT0.10.1.dmg (for OSX 10.5.x)

Envy24HT_SnowLeopard.0.10.0.dmg (for OSX 10.6.x, 32 and 64-bit)

Fixed digital output issues that were introduced with the 0.9 version.


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Envy24

The following sound cards are supported by the Envy24 driver:

Cards that aren't listed are now handled as 'generic' and will probably not work!

You can download the latest version here:
Envy24.0.20.0.dmg (for OSX 10.5.x)
Envy24_SL64bit_0.20.dmg (for OSX 10.6.x 64-bit only. For OSX 10.6 in 32-bit mode, you can use the other driver. Hopefully, in the next version, there will be one driver that works for 32- and 64-bit mode on OSX 10.6)
Turned off zero-latency monitoring which fixes the problems with stereo being messed up.

Test version for kernel panics after sleep/wake and 32/64-mode: Envy24_SnowLeopard.0.21.dmg (for OSX 10.6.x, do not install if you're not testing and reporting!)

Envy24.0.19.0.dmg (version 0.19.0 BETA!)
EWS88MT is now working. Only tested output 1-2.
This version also routes the analogue inputs 1-2 to analogue outputs 1-2 for zero-latency monitoring. This may not be what you want. Let me know what you think. Unfortunately I don't have time to make a full-blown M-Audio-like control panel to set monitoring volume etc.!

Envy24.0.17.0.dmg (version 0.17.0 BETA!)
Adds digital output support for the Delta 66.

Envy24.0.16.0.dmg (version 0.16.0 BETA!)
Adds support for the Delta 410 including output volume controls. The codec does not have input gain controls, so there aren't any input controls in Audio/MIDI setup.
This version also changes the 32-bit indication in Audio/MIDI setup to 24-bit and adds a 16-bit format. Note that this doesn't affect quality whatsoever since samples arrive in 32-bit floating point and are always converted to 32/24-bit. The reason for the 16-bit format addition is that some people complained about certain apps requiring 16-bit output. Perhaps this helps.

Important note about the Envy24 driver:
The Envy24 chip has can only allocate memory in the first 256 MB of address space. If OSX does not have enough memory available for the driver at boot time, the driver will have a high chance of malfunctioning. You can check the system log in Console if this happens to you if you have problems of freezing or anything when using this driver to playback for the first time after boot.

The cards that are not verified may or may not work. Let me know if they do!

If you appreciate my work, please consider donating to paypal AT audio-evolution.com or use the Paypal button, or buy my audio and MIDI sequencing application Audio Evolution 5 so I can afford to buy more cards to support! Bug reports of Audio Evolution 5 are also appreciated very much!

 

 

Removing a driver

If you want to remove the driver, you have to unload the kext (twice) and remove the directory where the kext is located. Open the terminal and type (copy/paste from here) the following:

For the Envy24:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Envy24PCIAudioDriver.kext > /dev/null
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Envy24PCIAudioDriver.kext > /dev/null
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/Envy24PCIAudioDriver.kext

For the Envy24HT:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Envy24HTPCIAudioDriver.kext > /dev/null
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Envy24HTPCIAudioDriver.kext > /dev/null
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/Envy24HTPCIAudioDriver.kext

 

Contact

For questions, bug reports or suggestions, please contact me at: drivers@audio-evolution.com

 

Disclaimer

Using this driver is at your own risk. The author can not be held liable for any damage to your computer, speakers or other audio hardware.

We also do not encourage software piracy: please buy an original OSX license at your Apple store or www.apple.com!