Creative SB0060 User Guide - Page 73

Multimedia Playback Multimedia Playback DVD Video CD Wave/CD Audio MIDI SoundFont MIDI Applications To play back DVD movies on your Sound Blaster Live!, you must first have a DVD-compatible CD-ROM 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' DeskTop Theater 5.1 or a Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder. See Figure 1-7 on page 1-9. You can play a Video CD on Sound Blaster Live! using the bundled Creative PlayCenter. To enhance your movie experience, enable CMSS (Creative Multi Speaker Surround) to get surround effects on 4 speakers. Use Creative PlayCenter to play back files in both Wave and CD Audio formats. WAV is the format for digital 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 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 found in the AudioHQ group. Many musicians have created music files that use exotic or non-regular instrument (non General MIDI compliant). These instruments are stored in SoundFont banks. Such MIDI files can be played back from Creative PlayCenter. The bundled CD contains many examples of MIDI demos that use high quality SoundFont banks. To Do This ... Use These Applications 6-5