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    as specifically allowed in the license agreement. The licensee may make one copy of the software for backup purposes. Copyright © 1998-1999 by Creative Technology Ltd. All rights reserved. Version 2.00 April 1999 Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks, and the Sound Blaster Live! logo
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    will continue in force after termination. LIMITED WARRANTY Creative warrants, as the sole warranty, that the disks on which the Software is furnished will be free of defects, as set forth in the Warranty Card or printed manual included with the Software. No distributor, dealer or any other entity or
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    Software. Should the Software prove defective, you (and not Creative, or its distributors or dealers) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. This warranty gives you specific WARRANTY CARD OR PRINTED MANUAL INCLUDED WITH THE SOFTWARE. IN NO EVENT WILL CREATIVE OR ITS
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    the equipment operating/installation manual and/or with the equipment is suitable for user-installed application cards. ATTENTION: Ce carte est destiné used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference the product Trade Name: Creative Labs Model Number: CT4620/CT4660 has been
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    Cards and Related Peripherals 1-4 Positioning Your Speakers...1-7 Connecting Creative PC-DVD 1-8  ,QVWDOOLQJ6RIWZDUHLQ:LQGRZV Setting Up the Audio Drivers 2-1 Installing the Applications...2-4 Using Sound Blaster Live!...2-5 Configuring Your Speakers 2-6 Experiencing Sound Blaster Live
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    Setting Up Joystick Drivers in Windows NT 4.0 3-1 Using Sound Blaster Live!; Configuring Your Speakers 3-2 Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc 3-2 Removing Unused Sound Blaster Drivers 3-3  8VLQJ6RXQG%ODVWHU/LYH Sound Blaster Live! Experience 4-2 Creative Launcher
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    ) ...5-4 Prody Parrot...5-5 TextAssist ...5-8 VoiceAssist ...5-9 Sound Forge XP...5-10 Half-Life Day One...5-11 Thief: The Dark Sound Blaster Live! card A-3 Digital I/O card ...A-3 % 6%(PXODWLRQLQ06'26:LQGRZV Background ...B-1 Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 95/98
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    CTSYN Environment Variable B-6 BLASTER Environment Variable B-6 Problems Installing Software D-1 Problems With Sound ...D-2 Problem with Surround Mixer D-5 Insufficient SoundFont Cache D-5 Problems With Joystick ...D-6 Resolving I/O Conflicts ...D-7 Problems in Windows NT 4.0 D-7 Problems
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    . Whether you are a musician, sound designer, or hardcore gamer, Sound Blaster Live! is the ultimate solution in PC audio technology. For Creative software, your card requires at least: u Genuine Intel® Pentium® class processor: 133 MHz for Windows 95/98, 200 MHz for Windows NT 4.0 u Intel or 100
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    u Installation instructions: Chapter 1, "Knowing and Installing Your Cards" u Connectivity reference diagrams: Chapter 1, "Knowing and Installing Your Cards" u Learning about the bundled applications: • Chapter 4, "Using Sound Blaster Live!" • Chapter 5, "Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications
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    overview of the features of your card, launch the Sound Blaster Live! Experience program. u View the contents of the Demo CD for additional demonstrations, libraries and other software. u Visit the www.sblive.com site for more information, content and Live!Ware updates. The following typographical
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    Knowing and Installing Your Cards This chapter is organized as follows: u On the Audio Cards u Installing the Cards and Related Peripherals u Positioning Your Speakers u Connecting Creative PC-DVD 1 Knowing and Installing Your Cards 1-1
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    Connects to the Digital I/O card. Please use the Digital I/O cable provided with your package. Do not use an IDE cable. Warning:.This is not an IDE interface. Do not connect to your IDE devices. Figure 1-1: Jacks and connectors on the Sound Blaster Live! card. 1-2 Knowing and Installing Your
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    (DAT) machine or MiniDisc (MD) player/ recorder that supports SPDIF. Digital I/O card Digital I/O cable Audio Extension (Digital I/O) connector Connects the Digital I/O card to transfer digital audio signals to and from the Sound Blaster Live! card. Mini MIDI ln DIN connector Connects to a MIDI
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    an unused bracket on your computer casing to accommodate the PCIoriented Digital I/O card. 6. Align the Sound Blaster Live! card with the vacant PCI expansion slot. Press the card gently and evenly into the slot as shown. Ensure that the card sits firmly inside the PCI expansion slot. 7. Secure the
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    10. To learn how to connect to other devices, see Figure 1-5. 11. Replace the cover onto your system. 12. Plug the power cord back into the wall outlet, and switch on the system. Knowing and Installing Your Cards 1-5
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    card does not support Dolby Digital (AC-3 compressed SPDIF) formats. Therefore, do not connect it to the AC-3 SPDIF Output of your Encore Dxr2 card or consumer DVD player; otherwise, you might not get any sound. u If you are playing games in Windows 95/98 connector Sound Blaster Live! card GamePad
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    speaker Computer monitor Front right speaker You Rear left speaker Rear right speaker Figure 1-6: Recommended speaker positions for the 4-speaker configuration. Knowing and Installing Your Cards 1-7
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    or DVD-ROM drive does not fully comply to SPDIF specifications), you must: 1. Make sure there is a connection between the Sound Blaster Live! card's CD In connector and the Analog Audio connector of the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 2. • In Windows: In Surround Mixer, unmute the CD Audio device and mute
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    this cable or mute the signal to the sound card when watching DVD movies.) (The position of the jack and the connector type may differ from your card's.) DVD-ROM drive MPC-to-MPC (2-pin) audio cable Sound Blaster Live! card Figure 1-7: Connecting Creative PC-DVD. Knowing and Installing Your
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    to install the audio software in Windows 95/98 after installing your card. It consists of the following sections: u Setting Up the Audio Drivers u Installing the Applications u Using Sound Blaster Live! u Configuring Your Speakers u Experiencing Sound Blaster Live! u Uninstalling the Applications
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    boxes. 3. Click the Browse button and select the folder Figure 2-2: Driver installation dialog box where the Windows default driver option is not available. AUDIO\Language\WIN95DRV where Language is the language of the software that you want to install. 2-2 Installing Software in Windows 95/98
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    appears: Figure 2-3: Windows 98 Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box. Figure 2-4: Update Device Driver Wizard dialog box when driver cannot be found. select the folder AUDIO\Language\WIN95DRV where Language is the language of the software that you want to install. 6. Click the Open button, and then
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    click the Next button, and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation of the driver. u If a Version Conflict message box supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically. If not, see "Problems Installing Software" on page D-1. 2. Follow the instructions
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    or select your media and PlayCenter will do the rest. Figure 2-7: Creative PlayCenter. To run PlayCenter, bring your pointer to the top of the screen to display Creative Launcher, click the Sound Blaster Live! tab, and then click the PlayCenter icon. Installing Software in Windows 95/98 2-5
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    the many wonderful experiences Sound Blaster Live! can give you. • To run SB Live! Experience, bring your pointer to the top of the screen to display Creative Launcher, click the Sound Blaster Live! tab, and then click the SB Live! Experience icon. 2-6 Installing Software in Windows 95/98
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    Programs Properties dialog box, select the target programs including Sound Blaster Live!, and then click the Add/Remove button. 4. Follow the instructions on the screen to uninstall. Some applications may share files with other Windows applications. If so, the uninstallation program will prompt you
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    of the software that you want to install. The updating process may take a while. When the progress indicator box disappears, the update is complete. Playing Legacy Games For more information, see Appendix B, "SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98". 2-8 Installing Software in Windows 95/98
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    card. It consists of the following sections: u Installing the Software u Setting Up Joystick Drivers in Windows NT 4.0 u Using Sound Blaster Live!; Configuring Your Speakers u Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc u Removing Unused Sound Blaster Drivers Installing the Software
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    button. 9. Restart your computer when prompted. Using Sound Blaster Live!; Configuring Your Speakers See "Using Sound Blaster Live!" on page 2-5 and "Configuring Your Speakers" on page 2-6. They also apply in Windows NT 4.0. Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc You may want
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    Blaster Drivers You may want to remove unused Sound Blaster ISA and PCI audio drivers after you have removed the cards from your computer. To remove the drivers, use the procedure in the previous section, "Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc". Installing Software in Windows
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    4 Using Sound Blaster Live! Sound Blaster Live! is supported by a full range of applications to help you get the absolute most from the audio card. The software most important to the operation of your audio card is the Sound Blaster Live! group: u Sound Blaster Live! Experience u Creative Launcher u
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    u Creative Recorder u Creative MiniDisc Center Additional software included with Sound Blaster Live! is described in Chapter 5, "Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications". Sound Blaster Live! Experience Sound Blaster Live! Experience presents an interactive introduction to Sound Blaster Live!.
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    item within a group that may contain more items. A plug-in is a Creative software module that is integrated into Launcher. Examples are the Volume Control Plugin and programs by Creative. For details on managing groups and items in Launcher, see its online help. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-3
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    Surround Mixer 4-4 Using Sound Blaster Live!
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    -only) environment, with an option to fully define an environment. u Mixer deck The Mixer deck allows you to do mixing of sounds from various audio input sources when recording and when playing. For details on what you can do in Surround Mixer, explore the Help file. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-5
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    Start button, point to Programs, point to Creative, point to Sound Blaster Live!, and then click AudioHQ. You can also access the AudioHQ menu by clicking the AudioHQ icon located at the bottom right corner of your Windows desktop. AudioHQ uses the familiar Windows group to display the icon for each
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    SoundFont Control Configure a MIDI Bank Creative SoundFont Control allows you to configure MIDI , you may return to the original sounds or use the new selection. You can "spot" hide particular instruments by loading one or more SoundFont files on top of the original. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-7
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    can occupy, so that your system performance does not suffer from insufficient memory. You can also set the caching algorithm for a balanced system performance. 4-8 Using Sound Blaster Live!
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    To change the SoundFont device • On the Options tabbed page of the SoundFont dialog box, select the new device from the SoundFont Device list. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-9
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    playback sessions, or to the left to set a lower number of simultaneous playback sessions. To select the sound device to configure: • On the Options tabbed page, click the device you want to configure from the Sound Device list. The device is immediately selected. 4-10 Using Sound Blaster Live!
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    . First, connect a MIDI input device to your audio card and then select that device in Creative Keyboard. To test an instrument: 1. In Creative Keyboard, click the bank and the instrument you want. playback's sustain is too long, click the All Notes Off button. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-11
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    silence all MIDI sustain sounds: • In Creative Keyboard, click the All Notes Off button. All the black points on the keyboard are removed. Creative Sound Graph complements the record 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 3 kHz, 4 kHz, 6 kHz, 8 kHz, 10 kHz, 12 kHz, 14 kHz, 16 kHz, and 18 kHz. 4-12 Using Sound Blaster Live!
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    Creative Surround Mixer. Learn from the online help how to: u Configure master effects • Add to or remove effects from an environment • Specify the effect type • Specify the degree or amount of the effect • Edit an effect all the way down to its parameters or building blocks Using Sound Blaster Live
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    configuration. For example, when playing a MiniDisc using Creative PlayCenter, you may want to associate different superenvironments for the speaker outputs "Live!Surround" and "4 Speakers". 1. In the Application started. For other functions, refer to its Help file. 4-14 Using Sound Blaster Live!
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    start would be to take a microphone, plug it in to your Sound Blaster Live! card, and sample your voice. Even if you just say 'hello'. Using at the sound design possibilities available. WaveStudio is a Windows-based application that allows you to perform the following sound editing functions easily
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    Keytar With Creative Keytar, an easy-to-use and highly interactive edutainment software for beginners, you can turn your favorite tune, all in a matter of seconds or minutes. 4-16 Using Sound Blaster Live! Properties Capo (transposition) Chord palette Musician Reverb and chorus Custom chord
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    with auto-accompaniment in Rhythm mode: • Four-part Rhythm section • Preset backing styles • Interactive backing arrangement • Chord Palette system • SoundFont support u Choose between two Keyboard types: PC (QWERTY) keyboard or MIDI keyboard connected to your PC. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-17
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    Rhythmania is essentially pattern-based software: u You play a Pattern to provide auto-accompaniment for your screen to display Creative Launcher, click the Programs tab, and then click the PlayCenter icon. For details on how to use PlayCenter, see its online help. 4-18 Using Sound Blaster Live!
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    to record sounds or music from various input sources like the microphone or Audio CD, and save them as Wave (.wav) files. For details on how to use Recorder, see its online help. Creative MiniDisc Center . u play back your personal album and record to your MD recorder. Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-19
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    from the ones described here. Cakewalk Express Gold Sound Blaster Live! can best be appreciated through some of the advanced software that makes maximum use of the audio card's features. To assist you in exploring these features, Creative has assembled an assortment of applications that demonstrate
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    forms: MIDI and Digital Audio. MIDI is the standard by which computers communicate with sound cards, keyboards, and other electronic instruments. Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) refers to to use, and many other things that make music, music. 5-2 Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications
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    Mixman Studio, a series of step-by-step tutorials is included online. Once you master the basics, challenge yourself with Mixman Studio's advanced features-unlock your creative potential! Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications 5-3
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    .com to update you database and download new songs. Soft Karaoke also lets you change the tempo as well as the key of any of the song to suit your voice range, just like a karaoke machine. It will definitely bring your family and friends hours of entertainment. 5-4 Additional Sound Blaster Live
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    from here to there, resting on dialog boxes and windows. He performs commands and launches applications for you, and after you train Prody Parrot, just say "e-mail" to launch your e-mail software. u Keyboard commands: For example, after you train Prody Parrot, you Sound Blaster Live! Applications 5-5
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    Windows program and immediately knows how to perform the associated actions. Teach Prody Parrot to respond to your commands in custom ways, such as running applications, executing macros, speaking or displaying messages, and performing animated action sequences. 5-6 Additional Sound Blaster Live
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    and sound effects. To open Prody Parrot Help or User's Guide: 1. Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, and then point to Prody Parrot Package. 2. Click either of the following: u Prody Parrot Help u Prody Parrot User's Guide, a PDF file Additional Sound Blaster Live
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    userdefined voices Special text filters Adjustable reading styles Exception dictionaries Application-specific settings Allows You To Have your computer read text aloud. Choose add words that require special pronunciation to the TextAssist dictionary. 5-8 Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications
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    Specific Settings: You can configure TextAssist to automatically adapt itself to different applications in your Windows environment. To open TextAssist Help or User's Guide: 1. Click the Start button on the Windows actions executed by a single command). Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications 5-9
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    Sound Forge XP With Sound Blaster Live!, Sound Forge XP gives you the ability to record, edit, and process professional-quality digital audio files. Sound Forge XP supports an extensive set of file formats-Microsoft Video for Windows command. 5-10 Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications
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    Gamers Online. Its storyline, created by an award-winning horror novelist, puts you in a realistic world supports Environmental Audio. Using Looking Glass' proprietary Dark Engine, which features a full 6-D engine, raycast lighting, realistic physics modeling Sound Blaster Live! Applications 5-11
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    ™ (Special Edition) has full support for Environmental Audio. It features /backward movement, and for jumping. For more information, system requirements, troubleshooting, and performance-enhancement tips, see the online README.TXT file for online. 5-12 Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications
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    MYTH II: Soulblighter Sequel to the award-winning original... Released in November 1997, "Myth: The Fallen Lords" is a revolutionary title in the strategy tremble before the wrath of Soulblighter, cruelest and most cunning of the evil Fallen Lords. Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications 5-13
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    the applications that will help you achieve your goals. Advanced Content Creation Multi-track recording Applications Cakewalk Sound Blaster Live! lets you create a home music studio. It bundles software that lets you put together your own productions consisting of multiple music tracks from a MIDI
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    . You can also edit existing musical instruments or what we call SoundFonts. Sound Forge/Creative WaveStudio With these software, you can do digital recording and editing (16-bit, 48 kHz) on your PC with Sound Blaster Live! by connecting any SPDIF compatible device such as a DAT deck (and selecting
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    Advanced Content Creation Multiple Effects Processing/Creation SoundFont Production & Playback Applications Creative Surround Mixer/Environmental Audio applet Sound Blaster Live! comes with a variety of effects that are programmable. You can literally create thousands of reverb and other special
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    on your Sound Blaster Live!, you would probably want to enhance your voice, or even add special effects. You can do this with the Environmental Audio applet, which can be accessed from Creative Surround Mixer. Sound Forge If you are doing content creation for the Web, use this software to convert
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    audio files on the Windows operating platform. CD Audio is played back from an audio compact disc on your CDROM drive. MIDI (*.MID) is a music format used by musicians that is played back from the internal synthesizer on the Sound Blaster Live! card. You can use Creative PlayCenter to play back
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    download Windows Media Player from Microsoft's website. Digital Entertainment Digital Entertainment Applications Watch Surround Movies If you want to enjoy high quality movie entertainment, ensure you have good speakers. If you have 4 speakers connected to your Sound Blaster Live! card, enable
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    have fun. Additional songs can be downloaded from the Web. How about a talking parrot to chat with you? Your Sound Blaster Live! card bundles a software called Prody Parrot that will certainly entertain you. You can also have your Sound Blaster Live! card transform text to speech using the bundled
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    A3D 1.0 Support Sound Blaster Compatibility Environmental Presets For Legacy/Existing Games Customized environments for non-3D audio games Applications Your card translates A3D calls into DirectSound3D, meaning that you can enjoy A3D games. Your card provides you with exceptional Sound Blaster
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    A This section lists the specifications of your cards. Features PCI Bus Mastering u PCI Specification Version 2.1 compliant u Bus synthesizer u Professional-quality digital mixing and equalization u Up to 32 MB of sound RAM mapped to host memory Stereo Digitized Voice Channel u True 16-bit Full
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    Codec Mixer Volume Control Creative Multi Speaker SurroundTM ( Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48 kHz sample rate u Software record and playback control of Master, Digitized Voice, and inputs from multiple sounds can be moved and placed around a listener A-2 General Specifications
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    Connectivity Sound Blaster Live! card Audio Inputs Audio Outputs Interfaces Digital I/O card Audio Inputs connector on card u Two line-level analog outputs via stereo jacks on rear bracket, Front and Rear Line-Outs u Stereo headphone (32-ohm load) support on Front bracket General Specifications A-3
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    -DOS Mode Utilities Legacy games in the market have been designed for only MS-DOS. SB Live! supports MS-DOS games. There are two ways to play MS-DOS games: u From the MS-DOS box in Windows 95/98 This is the recommended method. To open the box: • Click the Start button on the
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    SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM The first two statements set up the environment variables for your audio card. For an explanation of the variables, see "Understanding the Environment Variables" on page B-6. B-2 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98
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    The third statement runs the SBEINIT.COM driver. SBEINIT.COM is the SB Live! MS-DOS driver. It is required for the SB Live! card to function properly under MS-DOS mode. The syntax for the statement is as follows: \SBEINIT.COM SBEINIT.COM requires that the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386
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    the following software SB emulation resources-not hardware resources- of your card: u Input/Output (I/O) Addresses u Interrupt Request (IRQ) Line u Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channel If your card encounters a tables, the preferred values are in bold. B-4 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98
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    processor that it wants to send or receive data for processing. Table B-2: Possible default interrupt request (IRQ) line assignment. Device Default IRQ Line SB interface 5, 7, 9, 10 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98 B-5
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    Environment Variable Environment variables are used to pass hardware configuration information to the software in your system. For MS-DOS, your audio card includes the following: u CTSYN Environment Variable u BLASTER Environment Variable The CTSYN environment variable points to the location of the
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    audio interface. Second DMA channel used by the audio interface. MPU-401 UART interface's base I/O address. Card type. x must be 6. To find the current SB Live! SB16 Emulation resources in Windows 95/98: 1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 2. In the Control
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    would expect the card to be at a fixed set of resources and would fail to load if those resources are not detected. If you have older MS-DOS games that do not work properly, try changing the SB Live! SB16 Emulation configuration. Use the following as a guide: Problem: Sound Blaster emulation is not
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    provides all these as options, specify the choices in this order: 1. Sound Blaster 16 2. Sound Blaster Pro 3. Sound Blaster 4. Adlib The SB Live! card includes a few MS-DOS utilities. These utilities require the SB Live! DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be loaded. Use the SBECFG.EXE utility to obtain the
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    on the SB Live! card. You can use SBEMIXER.EXE from the command line-useful for advanced users who want to set up batch files with particular volume levels-or within the SBEMIXER screen. The settings for SBEMIXER.EXE are independent of the Creative Mixer settings in Windows 95/ 98. To set SBEMIXER
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    circumstances you may need to manually reconfigure DOS SB Emulation, for example, if there is conflict in DOS before it can boot to Windows. SBESET.EXE is run is Off, 0 is On. Set x to 1 to use the Windows-assigned resource configuration. Set x to 0 to use (your) user-assigned resource configuration. SB
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    I/O address to 240, the IRQ line used by the audio interface to 5, the First DMA channel used by the audio interface to 3, and use the Windows-assigned resource configuration". Use this to confirm whether SB16 Emulation is properly installed and working. B-12 SB Emulation in MS-DOS
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    Panel. 2. In the Control Panel window, double-click the System icon. 3. In the System Properties dialog box, click the Device Manager tab. 4. Double-click Sound, Video And Game Controllers, and then select Creative Gameport Joystick. 5. Click the Properties button. Changing Audio Card Settings C-1
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    to Sound Blaster Live!, and then click AudioHQ. Check out the applets within the AudioHQ window. Click Creative Launcher at the top or bottom of your computer screen, and then click the AudioHQ tab. Check out the applets indicated by the icons in the second row of Launcher. C-2 Changing Audio Card
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    Troubleshooting D Problems Installing Software This appendix provides tips for solving problems you may encounter during installation or normal use. In Windows 95/98, the installation does not start automatically after the CD-ROM is inserted. The AutoPlay feature in your Windows 95/98 system may
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    . In a 4-speaker configuration, there is no sound from the rear speakers. Check the following: u The rear speakers are connected to the audio card's Rear Out jack. u If you are playing sound from one of these sources: • CD Audio • Line In • TAD • Auxiliary (AUX) • Microphone D-2 Troubleshooting
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    To solve the problem: 1. In Surround Mixer's Mixer deck, Output Only mode and so must connect to digital speakers to hear the sound from your audio card. See the section on Digital Output Only in Surround Mixer's online help for deck of Surround Mixer is incorrectly selected. Troubleshooting D-3
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    applet are set to 100%. No audio output when playing CD-Audio. OR No audio output when playing DOS games that require a CD-ROM. To solve this problem: • Make sure the Analog Audio connector on the CD-ROM drive and the CD In connector on the audio card are connected. D-4 Troubleshooting
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    source in the Environment deck of Surround Mixer. For example, the CD Audio balance in Windows Volume Control is on the left but in Surround Mixer you have panned the CD Audio to the right. To solve this problem: • Open that other mixer, and center the balances for all the audio input sources
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    lower sound quality. Problems With solve this problem: • Disable the audio card's joystick port and use the system port instead. For details, see "Enabling/Disabling Gameport Joystick Interface" on page C-1. Do not attempt to make changes to the BIOS unless you have experience with system software
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    system restart. This occurs after you remove an audio card from your computer after you have successfully installed the Sound Blaster Live! card. Windows is trying to match the drivers to the removed audio card. To solve this problem: 1. Log on to your computer as Administrator. Troubleshooting D-7
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    • Audio for Creative SB Live! • MIDI for Creative SB Live! • MIDI for Creative S/W Synth 5. Click the OK button to close the dialog box. The drivers are removed. The Encore DVD Player is not launched when a DVD disc is inserted into the drive. To solve this problem: 1. In the Windows system tray
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Getting Started
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Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. No part of this
manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without
the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied
only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any other medium except as specifically allowed in the
license agreement. The licensee may make one copy of the software for backup purposes.
Copyright © 1998-1999 by Creative Technology Ltd. All rights reserved.
Version 2.00
April 1999
Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks, and the Sound Blaster Live! logo, the Sound Blaster PCI logo, EMU10K1, Environmental Audio, and
Creative Multi Speaker Surround are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. in
the United States and/or other countries. E-Mu and SoundFont are registered
trademarks of E-mu Systems, Inc.. SoundWorks is a registered trademark, and MicroWorks, PCWorks and FourPointSurround are trademarks of Cambridge
SoundWorks, Inc.. Microsoft, MS-DOS, and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other products are trademarks or registered
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This product is covered by one or more of the following U.S. patents:
4,506,579; 4,699,038; 4,987,600; 5,013,105; 5,072,645; 5,111,727; 5,144,676; 5,170,369; 5,248,845; 5,298,671; 5,303,309; 5,317,104; 5,342,990; 5,430,244;
5,524,074; 5,698,803; 5,698,807; 5,748,747; 5,763,800; 5,790,837.