Audigy 2 and 24bit

[royharper3220]

sorry for another stupid sound blaster question.

but on the site in the faq i found this
"Can I record 24bit 96khz audio with the Sound Blaster Audigy 2?

Yes. You can record 24bit 96khz wave files with the Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer.

The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 can record up to 16bit 48khz with ASIO drivers."

so what uses ASIO drivers? Does cool edit 2 use them?
I mean whats the difference, what makes the Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer different than cool edit?

 

[TimOBrien]

Well I keep hearing this argument all the time... I found this:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/video/20020405/extigy-01.html

"Before going any further, however, we'd like to make a couple of small things clear. In fact, ever since Creative Labs first rolled out the Audigy, they have been making claims about their communications card, which is questionable, to say the least. First of all, they claim that it is capable of 24-bit sound sampling at 96 kHz. The 24-bit logo appears all over the place - on the box, on the installation CD, even on the product itself. Yet it has been confirmed, even by Creative Labs' own technicians, that neither the Audigy nor the Extigy are capable of recording or playing 24-bit sound at 96 kHz. There is actually entry-level support that the card automatically downmixes to 16 bits / 48 kHz to process the sound. So why is the 24-bit logo featured on packaging for products such as the Extigy or the Audigy cards? Then there is the fact that this same logo indicates a signal-to-noise ratio of 100 dB, where our tests have shown that neither the Audigy nor the Extigy are capable of levels above 90 dB -- and even this is less than optimal, for both analog and digital.

 

[royharper3220]

I wonder whats really happening when i set cool edit to record in 24/96 then. I mean it works, so what is the real sampling rate? does that mean that the soundcard converts at a set rate, if what i select in cool edit isnt really happening?so what controls the sampling rate?

 

[brzilian]

I wonder whats really happening when i set cool edit to record in 24/96 then. I mean it works, so what is the real sampling rate? does that mean that the soundcard converts at a set rate, if what i select in cool edit isnt really happening?so what controls the sampling rate?

As far as bit depth goes, the Audigy ignores/doesn't make use of the last 8 bits of the 24bit string.

 

[royharper3220]

so normally the audio software would tell the soundcard what bit/sampling rate to convert at right? but since creative sucks its probably converting at 16/48, but the software records in a 24/96 format?