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Is it possible to use a Creative CT4750 on Windows 7/10 ?

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First post, by Elia1995

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Hi, I'm currently triple booting XP, 7 and 10 on a 2010-era PC (Intel i5-2320), since I love my PCI sound card's MIDI synthesizer, I decided to use it, while it works flawless on XP for obvious reasons, I can't find any compatible drivers (even third party, I don't care !!!) for 7 or 10.

Is it possible to somehow get this card to work on 7 or 10 ? All just for its MIDI synthesizer, actually... or if there is a way to make a soundfont out of it.... I dunno

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Reply 1 of 3, by PhilsComputerLab

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Switch to an Audigy 2? I had it working in 10 at some stage.

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Reply 2 of 3, by jesolo

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The CT4750 is the SB PCI128, which itself is just a rebranded Ensoniq PCI card.
These models used the Ensoniq *.ecw files and not *.sf2 files (if memory serves correct).
Regardless, Creative dropped support for these cards a long time ago and I don't think anyone has bothered to even write 3rd party drivers for these post the Windows XP era.

Your best option is what Phil has suggested, since there are 3rd party Windows 7/10 drivers available for the Live! and Audigy models.

Reply 3 of 3, by yawetaG

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I'm surprised its MIDI support actually works in XP, because when I installed drivers for an AudioPCI in XP I could only use Microsoft's softsynth MIDI set, not the AudioPCI wavesets.

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