I don't suppose anyone has ever successfully found the pinouts for the Audigy 2 card to allow connection of the input and output connectors ont the Antec Sonata's front panel? (Or any other case, obviously....)

I just spent a LOT of time doing web searching and it doesn't appear that the Audigy 2 pinouts are available anywhere.

Anyone else found them, or know where the sound card hardware hackers hang out?

Creative TechSupport, while they may take a few days to respond, should give you that information. They were happy to answer my question about custom-connecting a Live! 5.1 less than a year ago.

The Audigy pinouts for firewire:

Pin - Connector
1 TPA+
2 TPA-
3 GRN
4 GRN
5 TPB+
6 TPB-
7 NC
8 NC
9 GRN
10 NO PIN


I connected it to my front panel on my Sonata but it didn't work

Thanks, Starsky. I was actually looking for the pinouts for the audio in/out. I emailed Creative tech support -- we'll see if they have an answer. One person who responded thinks the pins on the board itself are digital only and that the analog mic/input signals don't exist.

By the way, on the Firewire: I read someone mention here on the boards that their Sonata's firewire connectors were labeled backwards -- the TPA+ and TPA- were reversed. (And same with the TPB+ and TPB-). That was the case with mine as well -- I connected the pin labeled TPA- to the TPA+ connector on my P4PE's Firewire header, and vice-versa, and did the same with the B+/-, and now my iPod works fine.

Creative replied with a cut-and-paste from their web site detailing what all the plugs and connectors were for on the Audigy 2 - no pinouts.

Check the help files that came with the card on the CD, that were installed when you installed the drivers. For the Audigy anyway, it has pinouts for all the major connectors, though I've never tried getting sound out of the connectors, only the firewire, which does work.

The Audigy 2 documentation implies that the connector will only work with Creative's LiveDrive module. Maybe it truly is just a digital connector... Or maybe Creative just wants to sell LiveDrives.

Yup they would love to sell live drives. Can't blame them either.

Here are the pinouts for the AUD_EXT connector from the audigy/audigy 2 docs.


AUD_EXT connector pin assignments

Note

ADC stands for Analog-to-Digital Converter

Pin Name Description
1 VCC +5V power supply
2 VCC +5V power supply
3 GND Ground
4 AC97CLK 24.5 MHz clock output
5 GND Ground
6 GP_SPDIFIN#2 SPDIF input signal
7 GND Ground
8 GND Ground
9 SPDIFO#3 SPDIF Out signal
10 GPO1 General Purpose Output #1
11 GPO2 General Purpose Output #2
12 GND Ground
13 GPO0 General Purpose Output #0
14 GND Ground
15 GP_SPDIFIN1 SPDIF Input signal
16 GND Ground
17 SPDIFO#0 SPDIF Out signal

18 GND Ground
19 SPDIFO#1 SPDIF Out signal
20 GND Ground
21 GND Ground
22 SPDIFO#2 SPDIF Out signal
23 GPI0 Digital Input (GP Input 0; Reserved)
24 GPI1 Digital Input, (GP Input 1; Reserved)
25 OUTMIDI MIDI Output
26 GND Ground
27 INMIDI MIDI Input
28 GND Ground
29 KEY
30 KEY
31 ADCSDO2 I2S audio data input.
32 GND Ground
33 ADCSDO1 I2S audio data input.
34 GND Ground
35 ADCSDO0 I2S audio data input.
36 GND Ground
37 I2SCLK I2S serial bit clock.

38 GND Ground
39 I2SFS Frame sync.
40 GND Ground

Copyright © 1998-2000 Creative Technology, Ltd.

Unfortunately they don't list the exact usases for each of the connectors, but I'd guess that maybe GPO1 and GPO2 might be them for the headphones, but you might need a circuit to clock the inputs from 31,33,and 35 to a microphone.

Acually just had a thought is the AUX_IN connector amplified at all or not? If not then you might be able to use that instead for the microphone. They are stereo analog connections so maybe. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I probably am.

I'd love to get this information too. I'm close to giving up and making my own connection by stringing an extension cable from the back of the card to the front of the pc and drilling some holes in the case to hold the extension cords. The only part that worries me is how to mount the cords in the front of the case. They would need to be very sturdy because you would be constantly pushing and pulling on them. I don't think my typical solution of duct tape would work very well.

http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=95,E=0000000000010651767,K=7675,Sxi=0,Case=obj(15530),VARSET=centric:280,Kb=creative_cli_en

The above site was in a post at Anandtech forums.

This is for the Sound Blaster Live & Audigy Series Only. Not the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Series.

That was concerning the AUD-EXT pinouts (40 pins) listed in the previous post.

What's the Wave Blaster Header? I took a mirror and took a peek at my Audigy 2 and counted 27pins for one of them (next to 'SPDIF_10'). Would that correspond to the 26pin 'Wave Blaster Header'?

I was googling for this same info and ended here. So nobody found a way? I am wondering if a new sound blaster card offers this possibility much easier than the Audigy2.

I have an Audigy 4 and I was looking for the same
And i found it

Enjoy!

i saw somewhere on hardforums that there's a guy that sells the cables for this. can't recall what he called it though offhand.

if u remember that guy who sells those cables, hit me up, id buy one in a heartbeat if the price was reasonable.

Yep, that would be him. My Google-Fu is rusty.

On a related note, anyone know how to clean up/prevent interference on these front panel connectors? I always can hear the hd activity leaking through.