Question about the compatibility of the "REALTEK High Definition Audio Driver"

[Gabriel_West]

Dear KVR people!

My Question1)

Does the “REALTEK High Definition Audio Driver” also work with an internal “ESI Maya 44ex” Soundcard, or does it only work with REALTEK's own Onboard Soundchips?

And just in case, if it does not work (which I suppose) ..

Question2)

Do you have any advice for me, on how I can enhance my soundcard with special effects like surround sound+ Reverb on my Win7 64bit (HP Intel Core 2 Duo E7400) Computer? Unfortunately the ESI Maya soundcard has no integrated application available, where you can enhance the sound with Reverb, surround etc and the Win7 OS as well seems to have no extra features to do so in contrast to my old Win XP Sp3 OS which came with a nice X-large Reverb Sound, exactly suiting to my likes. (Honestly, as for my personal experience, the Win7's own 'reverb-less' audio quality sucks, nevertheless, I'm aware of the fact, that its also a matter of personal taste)

Hope you guys can help me out, would really appreciate it, thx

with the kindest regards,
Gabriel West

[BertKoor]

Being a driver, it supposedly is tightly coupled to the chip it is made for: the Realtek AC97 and descendants. See my other post as well.

[Gabriel_West]

Ok, thx for your answer, @BertKoor, [edit have read your other poste as well] will consult my internal soundcard's manufactor company "ESI" and Realtek then aswell now in order, to find out if there's any satisfying solution for my issue and let you guys know what I could figure.

P.S.: Of course I dont wanna stick with my old Realtek 'cheap quality' Onboard Soundchip, only to get a surround sound simulation nor some Reverb adding. As an audiophile I can confirm, that Internal ESI Maya soundcards still sounding way better without Rev-+surround sound simulation, than Realtek Onboard Audio chips with added Rev.+surround sim, which not means, I dont prefer Surround Simulation on a 2.0 Stereo system at times or some extra reverb-

sound in general simular to Win Xp's its own OS reverb sound, anyway, there must be an option for 150 Euro expensive ESI Maya 44ex soundcards, to increase Reverb on reverb lacking Win 7 OS's, something like a certain high definition Audio Driver/Codec made for several soundcards, specifically made for that purpose. (Just wanna make 100% sure in downloading/installing the right software before messing up my computer respectively installing some shit whatsoever, u know)

And as for all these guys who were declining added extra Reverb at all on their OS settings,

you guys maybe just have a great soundcard (worth more than 200 Dollars/Euros) with integrated Reverb by default, which leads to the outcome, that additional extra reverb coming from the OS or special apps would just exaggerate and overfill your hall with the result of having terrible & dirty sound, simply because of toooo much Reverb.

So it's obvious, that its not only our personal taste what matters in terms to this debate question; "more or less reverb is better?", no, its most likely mainly a matter of the right 'Reverb-balanced' combination of your choosen Soundcard + Hardware/OS/settings incl. optimized EQ settings, etc. because we all want decent sound and as long as it sound quite decent, we get use to it and tend to stick with our first decent setup for soem reason, independantely, if we have a more-or-less strong taste for a pretty 'reverbish' sound setup.

Believe me, back in the days, I always needed a pretty reverbish-hall sound, to find my intonation on singing to music, like having a perfectly tuned Nylon guitar on my side, while picking some strings + singing to it and ta-da .. immediately found the right pitch/note, after somewhat 'inhaling' the 'quintessential' perfect pitch hall sound coming out right from the guitar sound hole, which again allowed me, to produce and reflect the ultimate pitch with my voice,

(Well, only when having the perfect tune on all of my guitar strings) since optimally, PC Speakers should behave in a way, like that way, as if they are able to somehow give you the Hall which comes out from the soundhole of a perfect tuned guitar in that case.

Same applies with PC Audio acoustic properties, but the thing is, without the right acoustic in your speakers (not enough reverb for ex.) it is just way more difficult to find the perfect intonation on singing attempts, well at least, if you have a rare disease like me, who needs to tension up his diaphragm first to be able to sing crystal clear without nasaling. (My diaphragm somehow stretches only through a deep, absolutely harmonious tuning, which I breathe in or inhale through a perfectly vibrating and absolutely 100% tuned hall sound coming out from the guitar sound hole. I'm sure there are a few less people who share the same experiences, there are rare but they are there, definitely)