QEPD KX Drivers

Por si alguno los usa, o le interesa, el muchacho que los desarrollaba, ya no lo va a hacer más. Igual siguen siendo una buena opción, si tenés una sblive en alguna máquina más viejita.

Acá está la info en inglés.


"hi, guys
"long time no see"

yep, haven't visited the forum for ages...
so, what's up with kX?

- I'm too busy with lots of different offline/online activities, so cannot work on kX
- I will try to release 3538 final in Jan
- there will be two 3538 releases - pre-final and final
- I will release some parts of the driver opensource (sourceforge?), if possible

what to expect in 3538 final?
- fix for midi channel 10 (drums)
- better a2value support
- better sb22x support
- minor fixes and improvements

what is NOT expected?
- ASIO 24/96
- a2zs notebook support
- EAX
- etc..

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FAQ:

OS support:
1. there will be NO linux support (95% of new code needs to be written)
2. there will be NO MacOS x86 support (95% of new code needs to be written)
3. Win98-based OSes are no longer supported -- it's 2006 already
4. we will not support 64-bit OS till I get true 64-bit platform
5. we will not support any 3-rd party OSes (reactos etc.)

hardware support:
1. we will probably never support newer X-Fi or E-mu hardware
2. I have a2zsnb by hand, but cannot make it work at the moment. Creative does NOT respond to my e-mails and I cannot get any technical specs for a4, a2value or a2zsnotebook; the same for 'noisy a2ex output' issue and 'MIDI attack issue'
3. as always, NO USB, SBLive24Bit, Firewire, ac97, HDA or any other stuff

future development:
1. I will try to release some parts of the driver opensource, but not the core, since it is covered by CL NDA -- don't ask for the sources, GPL etc.
2. if anything is ever released, it will be available as GPL/L-GPL
3. since some people requested non-MSVC SDK, I will probably need to re-build the API-part of the driver using another compiler -- interested parties - pls start a different thread discussing preferred tools and let me know by e-mail when that's done (we will need to choose -one- package/compiler for future SDK-dependent parts of the driver)

to our developers:
please send me by e-mail your very recent source code / plugins / effects / skins etc. to be merged with the 3538

to translators:
please download 3538 pre-final when it is out and update your translations accordingly

to people willing to contribute to the project as developers:
due to lack of time, I cannot monitor the forum at all. please find out any other way of communication (livejournal, wiki, another forum, mailing list etc.) and let me know by e-mail -- we will probably need to discuss the future of the project from the programmers' point of view - the ways of making it partially opensource, new features, SDK features and so on

and, finally, Merry Christmas (both, old- and new-style) and Happy New Year to everybody

Eugene"