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User's Guide Creative Sound Blaster Live! Digital Entertainment 5.1 Creative Audio Software 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 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 2
Creative offers to license the software sealed in the disk package together with all related documentation and accompanying items including, but not limited to, the executable programs, drivers portion of the Software for backup purposes only in support of your use of the Software on a single - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 3
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 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 4
Software. Should the Software prove defective, you (and not Creative, or its distributors or dealers) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, BE THAT SET FORTH IN THE WARRANTY CARD OR PRINTED MANUAL INCLUDED WITH THE SOFTWARE. IN NO EVENT WILL CREATIVE OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 5
SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (WINDOWS 95) IMPORTANT: By using the Microsoft software files (the "Microsoft Software Software acquired in the EU. This Agreement is the entire agreement between us, and you agree that Creative operating/installation manual and/or installed application cards. Modifications - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 6
Your Sound Blaster Live! Experience 1-5 Playing Games and Music, and Watching Movies 1-5 Watching DVD Movies or Playing DVD Games 1-5 Recording and Content Authoring 1-9 Positioning Your Speakers...1-9 2 Installing Software Installing Audio Drivers and Applications 2-1 Using Sound Blaster Live - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 7
3 Using Sound Blaster Live! Creative Sound Blaster Live! Tour 3-2 Creative Diagnostics ...3-2 Creative Launcher ...3-2 Surround Mixer ...3-3 Switching between analog and digital output modes 3-4 Enabling Bass Redirection 3-5 Enabling Dolby Digital (AC-3) Decoding 3-5 AudioHQ ...3-6 SoundFont - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 8
the Best Audio Options in a Game B-7 Music Options...B-7 Digital Audio Options B-7 MS-DOS Mode Utilities...B-8 SBECFG.EXE ...B-8 SBEMIXER.EXE ...B-8 SBESET.EXE ...B-9 SBEGO.EXE ...B-10 C Troubleshooting Problems Installing Software C-1 Problems With Sound ...C-2 Problem with Surround Mixer - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 9
Problems With Joystick ...C-5 Resolving I/O Conflicts ...C-7 Problems in Windows NT 4.0 C-7 Problems with Encore DVD Player C-8 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 10
setup and you'll experience realistic 3D audio, EAX in supported games, and enjoy your movies with true surround sound. The Live!Ware upgrade program will keep your Sound Blaster Live! card up to date with continual upgrades supporting future technologies, functionality, and features. If you wish to - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 11
Edition (32 MB RAM recommended), 32 MB RAM for Windows NT 4.0, 64 MB RAM for Windows 2000 ❑ 160 MB of free hard disk space ❑ Open half-length PCI 2.1 compliant slot ❑ Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately) ❑ CD-ROM drive required for software installation Sound Blaster Live! Player - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 12
More Information See the online User's Guide for MIDI specifications and connector pin assignments, as well as instructions on using the various applications in your audio package. Where To Go .rom Here ... ❑ For hardware and software installation instructions, refer to Chapters 1 and 2. ❑ To - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 13
Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 This chapter is organised as follows: ❑ Your Audio Card ❑ Installing the Card ❑ Connecting Related Peripherals ❑ Enhancing Your Sound Blaster Live! Experience ❑ Positioning Your Speakers 1 Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 1-1 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 14
your card. Refer to the online User's Guide, " output. Also supports headphones. Rear Out card or Live! Drive. Warning: This is not an IDE interface. Do not connect to your IDE devices. 1-2 Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 Figure 1-1: Jacks and connectors on the Sound Blaster Live! card - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 15
system. 4. Remove the metal plate from one unused PCI expansion slot in your system and put the screw aside, to be used later. 5. Align the Sound Blaster Live! card with the vacant PCI expansion slot. Press the card gently and evenly into the slot as shown in Figure 1-2. Ensure that the - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 16
games in Windows 95/98 via minijack-to-DIN cable. For instructions on how to switch between digital and Sound Blaster Live! card Figure 1-3: Connecting other devices. Connects to Live! Drive IR. See "Enhancing Your Sound Blaster Live! Experience" for more details. 1-4 Installing Sound Blaster Live - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 17
Music, and Watching Movies Watching DVD Movies or Playing DVD Games The Sound Blaster Live! card alone will most undoubtedly give you endless hours of listening pleasure. To further enhance your SB Live! experience, there are several upgrade options (available separately). The following information - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 18
DIN Minijack-to-DIN cable Analog Line and Rear Inputs Analog/Digital Out jack Sound Blaster Live! card Connects to the Optical Digital I/O card or Live! Drive (see next page). Playing Games and Watching Movies with an Analog 5.1 channel speaker system* Triple stereo audio cable 5.1 Channel - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 19
3 sets of 3.5mm (stereo)-to-RCA cable Discrete 6-channel Amplifier Analog Front, Rear and Centre/ Sub Inputs Analog/Digital Out jack Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 card Connects to the Optical Digital I/O card or Live! Drive (see page 1-8). Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 1-7 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 20
DIN Metal bracket Connects to SB Live! card Live! Drive IR via MiniDIN-tostandard DIN adapter (provided) Headphones Microphone / Line In MIDI devices systems, Digital I/O Module, Digital I/O card, Live! Drive IR and cables are available separately. 1-8 Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 21
may want to upgrade your Sound Blaster Live! card with either the Optical Digital I/O card (plus Digital I/O Module), or the Live! Drive IR. ❑ For you easy access to these connectors from its front panel. The Headphones and Microphone inputs utilise ¼" jacks for high-quality connectivity. If - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 22
Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 ❑ Uninstalling the Applications ❑ Reinstalling the Audio Drivers ❑ Playing Legacy Games You need device drivers to control the components on your audio card. To install these drivers as well as the bundled applications, use the following instructions. The instructions - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 23
Restart your computer when prompted. Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 Congratulations! You have successfully installed Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1. For more information on how you can get the most out of your audio card, refer to the other chapters in this manual. 2-2 Installing Software - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 24
you reinstall them to correct problems, change configurations, or make version upgrades. These instructions are applicable to all Windows operating systems. 1. Close the audio card's applications if they are open. This includes Creative Launcher and the SB Live! icon on the taskbar. Applications - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 25
drive. The disc supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically. If not, see "Problems Installing Software" on page C-1. 2. Follow the instructions on the screen until the Setup Options dialog box appears. 3. Click the Drivers only button. 4. Follow the instructions on the screen to - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 26
Blaster Live! Player 5.1 Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 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: ❑ Creative Sound Blaster Live! Tour ❑ Creative - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 27
of Sound Blaster Live!. Creative Diagnostics Use Creative Diagnostics to quickly test your audio card's Creative applications quickly. Creative Launcher resides at the top of your screen. The software installation creates a number of group tabs in Launcher that may contain shortcuts to Creative - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 28
various aspects of your audio card. It consists of two "detachable" decks: the Main deck and the Mixer deck. Set audio presets here To restore Surround Mixer to its original settings, click Start -> Program-> Creative -> Sound Blaster Live! -> Creative Main Restore Defaults. deck Speaker - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 29
By default, the Analog/Digital Out jack of the audio card outputs analog centre and subwoofer channels. To allow it to to select it. (This is available for all speaker modes except for the Headphones mode). Alternatively, you can do the following: 1. In the Mixer deck Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 30
deeper subwoofer output. This feature is useful for producing bass in games or applications that have only front and rear channel content. To Live! card to the Digital Output mode. In addition, you will need a separate 3.5mm-to-RCA jack cable to connect to your decoder. Using Sound Blaster Live - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 31
on your computer. AudioHQ can be accessed using any of the following methods: • Click Start -> Programs -> Creative -> Sound Blaster Live! -> AudioHQ; • Click or double-click the AudioHQ icon located at the bottom right corner of your Windows desktop. 3-6 Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 32
Sound.ont Control Configure a MIDI Bank Creative SoundFont Control allows you to configure MIDI banks with SoundFont files and instruments, as well as variation banks, including the latest configuration of instruments on the Configure Instrument tabbed page. Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 3-7 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 33
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. 3-8 Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 34
time and enjoy the sounds from them all. This feature is currently not supported under Windows 2000. To set maximum 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. Using Sound Blaster Live - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 35
in Creative Keyboard. To test an instrument: 1. In Creative Keyboard, click the bank and the instrument you want. 2. Click the keys on the keyboard to test the sound. If you have an external MIDI input device, you will probably find it easier to use it instead. 3-10 Using Sound Blaster Live! Player - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 36
effect is the modeling of a real-world experience. We have provided some entertainment, gaming and various audio effects to get you started with. EAX Control can be also be accessed from Creative Surround Mixer. audio effect to a file ❑ Import an audio effect Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 3-11 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 37
. Enhance your Wave data or create unique sounds with various special effects and editing operations such as rap, reverse, echo, mute, pan, cut, copy, and paste. ❑ Open and edit several Wave files at the same time. ❑ Import and export raw (.RAW) data files. 3-12 Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 38
. It can encode tracks at speeds of up to 8x faster than normal play speed and up to 320 kbps. Creative Recorder Recorder allows you to record sounds or music from various input sources like the microphone or Audio CD, and save them as Wave (.wav) files. Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 3-13 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 39
make calls to a regular telephone if you subscribe to MediaRing's ValueFone service. All you need to do is start MediaRing Talk; dial the number; and let MediaRing Talk establish a connection for you. Furthermore, with Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1's EAX, your voice can be modified as you take on - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 40
-based software: ❑ You play a Pattern to provide auto-accompaniment for your melody playing. ❑ You create or modify a Pattern by building or changing it Section by Section in Rhythm mode. ❑ Then, you combine a Pattern and a melody to create a Sequence in Sequencer mode. Using Sound Blaster Live - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 41
MP3/WMA Wave/CD Audio Applications To play back DVD movies on your Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1, you must first have a DVD-compatible drive. Next, you must have a software DVD solution that is available from Creative. For the full DVD experience, you may want to purchase Cambridge SoundWorks - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 42
a music format used by musicians that is played back from the internal synthesiser on the Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 card. Use Creative PlayCenter 2 to play back MIDI files or use the MIDI sequencer bundled with your card. To achieve the best quality, load the 8MB GM bank in the SoundFont applet - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 43
Creative PlayCenter 2; whether they are in CD Audio, WAV or MIDI format. Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 lets you play the guitar on your PC. With Creative enjoy the LAVA! experience, you will also need any 3D accelerated graphics card. With PlayCenter 2, you can encode and record all your favorite CD - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 44
MP3 songs even with someone who does not own an SB Live! card. Take on another personality or life-form while talking over the Internet! You can do this with Creative MediaRing Talk and its Voice Personas feature, which uses Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1's EAX to modify your voice in real-time as - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 45
www.sblive.com for a full list of compatible titles. DirectSound3D (DS3D) games are supported on your Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 card. You can hear sounds positioned in 3D space that enhance your game experience. Your card translates A3D calls into DirectSound3D, meaning that you can enjoy A3D - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 46
❑ Professional-quality digital mixing and equalization ❑ Up to 32 MB of sound RAM mapped to host memory Stereo Digitized Voice Channel ❑ True 16-bit Full Duplex operation ❑ 16-bit and 8-bit digitizing in stereo and mono modes ❑ Playback of 64 audio channels, each at an arbitrary sample rate ❑ ADC - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 47
sources for recording ❑ 16-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48 kHz sample rate Volume Control ❑ Software record and playback control of Enhances bass output to subwoofer for small satellite speaker systems Creative Multi Speaker SurroundTM (CMSSTM) ❑ Multi-speaker technology - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 48
outputs via stereo jacks on rear bracket, Line-Outs 1, 2 and 3 ❑ Stereo headphone (32-ohm load) support on Front Line-Out ❑ D-Sub MIDI interface for connection to external MIDI devices. Doubles as Joystick port ❑ AUD_EXT 2x20 pin header for connection to Live! Drive General Specifications A-3 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 49
market have been designed for only MS-DOS. SB Live! supports MS-DOS games. There are two ways to play MS-DOS games: ❑ From the MS-DOS box in Windows 95/98/ME (recommended) To open the box: • Click Start -> Programs -> MS-DOS Prompt. ❑ In the Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode There may be times when you - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 50
memory when using the NOEMS option if SBEINIT.COM fails to run SBELOAD.EXE or SBECFG.EXE. In the rare case that an MS-DOS game will not work with a memory manager, you will not be able to use the SB Live! card with the game. B-2 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 51
to the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE This section explains the following software SB emulation resources-not hardware resources- of your card: ❑ Input/Output (I/O) Addresses ❑ to 311H 320H to 321H 330H to 331H SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-3 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 52
Possible default interrupt request (IRQ) line assignment. Device SB interface Default IRQ Line 5, 7, 9, 10 A DMA channel is a data channel that a device uses to transfer data directly to and from First DMA channel Second DMA channel 0, 1, 3 5, 6, 7 B-4 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 53
information to the software in your system. For MS-DOS, your audio card includes the following: ❑ CTSYN Environment Variable ❑ BLASTER Environment Variable The the audio interface. MPU-401 UART interface's base I/O address. Card type. x must be 6. SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-5 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 54
, these games 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 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 55
. SB Live! supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, and Adlib digital audio emulation. If an application provides all these as options, specify the choices in this order: 1. Sound Blaster 16 2. Sound Blaster Pro 3. Sound Blaster 4. Adlib SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 56
Live! DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be loaded. SBEC.G.EXE Use the SBECFG.EXE utility to obtain the hardware settings and the status of the SB Live! card.Typing SBECFG.EXE at the command prompt displays the following hardware settings: ❑ PCI Hardware Settings: Port, IRQ ❑ Sound Blaster Emulation: Port - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 57
64 /W:120 /C:50 /M:0 which corresponds to "set the synth volume to 64, the Wave volume to 120, the CD audio volume to 50, and turn off the Synth MT-32 need to manually reconfigure DOS SB Emulation, for example, if there is conflict in DOS before it can boot to Windows. SBESET.EXE Windows 95/98/ME B-9 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 58
Emulation mode. For x, 1 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. An example 3, and use the Windows-assigned resource configuration". Use this to confirm whether SB16 Emulation is properly - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 59
Troubleshooting C Problems Installing Software This appendix provides tips for solving problems you may encounter during installation or normal use. In Windows, the installation does not start automatically after the CD-ROM is inserted. The AutoPlay feature in your Windows system may not be - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 60
the rear speakers only from the selected source. C-2 Troubleshooting In a 4-speaker configuration, there is no sound from the rear speakers. Check the following: ❑ The rear speakers are connected to the audio card's Rear Out jack. ❑ If you are playing sound from one of these sources: • CD Audio - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 61
Use Creative Mixer to adjust the volume, if necessary. ❑ The powered speakers or external amplifier are connected to the card's headphone configuration. ❑ The Original Sound sliders in either or both the Master and Source tabbed pages of the Environmental Audio applet are set to 100%. Troubleshooting - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 62
connector on the audio card are connected. Panning a source sometimes turns off its sound. This occurs when you are in the Digital Output Only mode and the source's left-right balance in a software mixer application other than Surround Mixer (for example, the Windows Volume Control application) is - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 63
-> Control 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. Troubleshooting C-5 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 64
is selected to disable it. 7. Click OK to restart Windows and for the change to take effect. When the the BIOS unless you have experience with system software. The joystick is not working properly in some of range. To solve this problem: • Increase your system's 8 bit I/O recovery time of the - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 65
. This occurs after you remove an audio card from your computer after you have successfully installed the Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 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 C-7 - Creative SB0100 | User Guide - Page 66
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 Program Files\Creative\PC-
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User’s Guide
Creative Sound Blaster Live! Digital Entertainment 5.1
Creative Audio Software
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 © 1998-2000 by Creative Technology Ltd. All rights reserved.
Version 1.0
October 2000
Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks, and the Sound Blaster Live! logo, the Sound Blaster PCI logo, EMU10K1, Environmental Audio, Creative
Multi Speaker Surround, and LAVA! 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
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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;
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