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Latest downloads from GUILLEMOT/HERCULES in Sound Card. Sort by: last update. Hercules Gamesurround Muse XL Pocket LT3 Audio Driver for Windows 7 7,362.

Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 DVD - sound card overview and full product specs on CNET. Download Drivers, download Sound Cards, download Hercules, wide range of software, drivers and games to download for free. This page contains drivers for Hercules Gamesurround Muse LT manufactured by Hercules™. Please note we are carefully scanning all the content on our website for viruses and trojans. This and other Sound Cards drivers we're hosting are 100% safe. Vendor: Hercules™ Device: Hercules Gamesurround Muse. The file contains a compressed (or zipped) set of files packing the drivers for Hercules Muse XL Audio. In order to make full use of your device, download the file to a folder on your hard drive, and then run (double-click) it to unzip the files. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.

All three cards installed without incident, and gave us no show-stopping crashes or banshee squeals because a driver went south.

Muse 5.1

This $30 card delivers very low-cost 5.1 audio, although you’ll need a set of speakers with analog connectors. The Muse 5.1 lacks a S/PDIF output. The card is built around the C-Media 8738-LX audio processor,

The Muse 5.1 arrives with C-Media’s somewhat bare-bones, but functional mixer applet, which includes the ability to tweak individual channel volumes when running in 4.1 or 5.1 speaker modes. The app works well enough, although it’s one of the most boring audio control interfaces we’ve seen in a long time.

The card is using a chip some motherboards have implemented as an integrated audio solution, and while the implementation is well done, the chip’s limitations made themselves apparent in the course of testing. The board’s only really outstanding feature is its low price tag. For $30, you can expand your PC audio experience to 5.1, and mating this card with a set of Creative Inspire 5300s or Logitech Z-640s would get you into a 5.1 audio rig for around $120. But that said, we believe you’d be better served by spending the extra $20 bucks to move up to the Fortissimo 3, since you get better performance and cleaner signal quality.


Muse 5.1
Pro:
Low, low, low price. 5.1 output. Decent performance, but…
Con:
Performance well below other cards tested.
Summary:
If you’re really strapped for cash, this one will do, but the Fortissimo 3 will do it better.
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Hercules
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Price:
$30,
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Fortissimo 3 7.1 and DigiFire 7.1

The $50 Fortissimo is virtually identical to the $80 DigiFire 7.1. Both cards even use the same audio processor, Crystal’s capable SoundFusion 4624. The main differences are DigiFire’s two FireWire ports (Fortissimo 3 has none), and that the DigiFire comes with a bundled video editor. We’ll address both cards together, and then talk about the Firewire capability of the DigiFire separately.

Both have very similar mixing panels, and this panel is well laid out. There are controls to tweak individual speaker channel volumes, enable/disable a variety of 3D audio effects and these controls are easily found and tweaked as needed.

Although they both include S/PDIF, the output is optical only. This means that whatever other digital device you’re using will need to have optical S/PDIF as well for digital audio. Back-panel real estate is a precious commodity, and the designers had to choose between one or the other, and it could have come down to a coin-toss.

The DigiFire and Fortissimo support a 7.1 speaker mode, and can accurately play back material encoded in the 6.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX format. This format takes the information found in the two surround channels of a 5.1 mix and pans it out into three surround channels (left-surround, right-surround, center-surround) or four channels (left-surround, right-surround, left-rear, right-rear).

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This comes in handy for more exactly locating sounds in the surround channels, and also makes for smoother panning from channel to channel. We’re starting to see some DVDs encoded to take advantage of the more accurate placement of sounds enabled by Dolby Surround EX. There is some discernible difference, although the experience isn’t a night-and-day difference over 5.1.

Unfortunately, both the DigiFire 7.1 and the Fortissimo 3 7.1 suffer from an annoying “feature” that plagued the Fortissimo 2 — which also used the Crystal 4624 audio processor. If you want to use the bundled PowerDVD software, you have to manually switch digital output from the main mix – and then reboot the computer!

This is just plain lame. The switcher shouldn’t need to re-initialize the whole damn audio driver for this new setting to be used, and it’s a “feature” that both cards would do well to lose. The era of having to reboot for driver state changes to take effect should remain in the 20th century, not the 21st. In fact, no other sound card we’ve seen has this issue, including the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, which is based on the big brother of Crystal’s 4624, the 4630.

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Fortissimo 3 7.1
Pro:
Good price/ performance, clean signal quality, optical S/PDIF
Con:
Annoying S/PDIF-change-forces-reboot bug ; Signal quality performance not as good as DigiFire 7.1. No coaxial S/PDIF output.
Summary:
For $50, this is a solid card that will get you nearly all the features of the DigiFire 7.1 (except for FireWire) and save you $30 bucks in the process.
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Hercules
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Price:
$50,
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DigiFire 7.1 FireWire

The only real reason to consider the $80 DigiFire 7.1 over the Fortissimo 3 is if need FireWire. However, the $30 price difference is about the same price as a name-brand FireWire adapter, like our favorite from D-Link, the DFW-500 (check prices). The Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer or MP3+ go for about the same price as the DigiFire, and Audigy delivers better signal quality as well as FireWire, so if you’re in the market for FireWire as well as a better sound card, we’d recommend the Audigy. The one instance where the DigiFire could get the nod over Audigy would be if you really need optical S/PDIF, which the DigiFire has and the Audigy lacks.

We did some basic inspection tests with the DigiFire’s FireWire inputs, and they worked as advertised. We used a generic 1394 camera to capture several video clips, and then hooked up our Sony DVR-PC5 Camcorder and captured video and audio from it via FireWire. Both devices worked without a hitch, and we were able to capture smooth video with no dropped frames.

While this card does give you the convenience of one-stop-shopping for a new sound card and FireWire, you’re then locked into the card to keep FireWire support. An inexpensive FireWire card and the Fortissimo 3 deliver similar features for less.

One interesting note: according to the RightMark Audio Analyzer, which we’re using for the first time in our sound card reviews all three cards are capable of playing back 96KHz/24-bit audio. And while the audio processors may be able handle this resolution internally, the cards’ DACs cannot. Both the DigiFire and the Fortissimo 3 top out at 48KHz/20-bit on their output. That’s DAT-quality, which isn’t bad, but neither of these cards is capable of playing DVD-Audio at either of its native resolutions (96KHz/24-bit in 5.1, or 192KHz/24-bit in stereo).


DigiFire 7.1
Pro:
Good performance, clean signal quality, optical S/PDIF; FireWire and a bundled video editor
Con:
Sound Blaster Audigy outperforms this one for signal quality and CPU usage, and costs about the same.
Summary:
Although a good card with an equally good feature set, this one doesn’t stack up favorably versus the similarly priced Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer and DigiFire gets caught in a squeeze play between Audigy and Fortissimo 3.
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Hercules
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Price:
$80,
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