Creative Blaster User Manual
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- Page 1 User's Guide ® VALUE...
- Page 2 Version 1.00 September 1998 Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks, and the Sound Blaster Live! logo, the Sound Blaster PCI logo, EMU10K1, E-mu Environmental Modeling, Environmental Audio, Creative Multi Speaker Surround, and DynaRAM are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. in the United States and/or other countries.
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Page 3: Safety Information
CSA/TUV/UL certified/listed IBM AT or compatible According to the FCC96 208 and ET95-19 personal computers in the manufacturer’s defined operator Name: Creative Labs Inc. access area. Check the equipment operating/installation manual and/or with the equipment manufacturer to verify/confirm if Address: 1901 McCarthy Boulevard your equipment is suitable for user-installed application cards. -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
Installing Software in Windows NT 4.0 Installing the Software...................3-1 Setting Up Joystick Drivers in Windows NT 4.0 .........3-1 Using Sound Blaster Live! Value; Configuring Your Speakers....3-1 Experiencing Sound Blaster Live! Value............3-2 Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc......3-2 Removing Unused Sound Blaster Drivers............3-2 General Specifications Features...................... - Page 5 Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channel ........B-3 Understanding the Environment Variables ..........B-3 CTSYN Environment Variable ............B-3 BLASTER Environment Variable ........... B-4 Determining Resources................. B-4 Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game ..........B-4 MS-DOS Mode Utilities................B-5 Changing Audio Card Settings Enabling/Disabling Gameport Joystick Interface........
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Page 6: Introduction
Introduction source. Apply real-time effects including Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, Echo, and Pitch Shifter, that rival stand-alone expensive With the Sound Blaster Live!— the most powerful sound card ever—taking the professional effects processors. industry by storm, Creative now introduces Environmental Audio™ Enhances... -
Page 7: Checking System Requirements
(recommended: Cambridge SoundWorks placeholder, which speakers) represents the information Sound Blaster Live! Value gives you an you must provide. estimate of the hard disk space required when UPPERCASE Directory name, file name, you select it on the installation screen. Some or acronym. -
Page 8: Knowing And Installing Your Cards
Not connected Not connected MIDI device simultaneously. SPDIFO#1 SPDIF Out signal Ground SPDIFO#2 SPDIF Out signal SPDIFO#3 SPDIF Out signal Figure 1-1: Jacks and connectors on the Sound Blaster Live! Value card Knowing and Installing Your Cards 1-1... -
Page 9: To Install The Cards And Related Peripherals
Note: Jacks are one-hole connecting interfaces whereas connectors consist of many pairs of pins. Some connectors here may not be available on your card. Refer to the online User’s Guide, “Hardware Information”, for details on connector pin assignments. Line Out and Rear Out jacks can be used simultaneously to power 4.1 channel speaker systems, for example, PCWorks FourPointSurround from Cambridge SoundWorks. - Page 10 Notes: If you are playing games in Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode (that is, pure DOS mode), you must: • Connect the CD In connector to the Analog Audio jack of the PC-DVD or CD-ROM drive. • Unmute the CD Audio device in the Play Control view of SB Live! Mixer. If you connect to the Digital Audio and Analog Audio jacks of the same PC-DVD or CD-ROM drive, make sure that in the Play Control view of SB Live! Mixer only the CD Audio or CD Digital device is unmuted but not both.
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Page 11: Positioning Your Speakers
MPEG2 decoder card to the Aux In connector top of the screen to display Creative Launcher, of the Sound Blaster Live! Value card. When click the AudioHQ tab, and then click the you are playing your DVD movies or games, Mixer icon. - Page 12 If you connect to the Digital Audio and is recommended that you: Analog Audio jacks of the same PC-DVD or 1. Connect the Sound Blaster Live! Value CD-ROM drive, make sure that in the Play card’s Aux In connector to the decoder Control view of SB Live! Mixer, unmute only card’s Audio Out connector.
- Page 13 MPC-to-MPC audio cable (The position of the jack and the connector form may differ from your card) Dolby Digital (AC-3) SPDIF Out jack To Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder (e.g., DeskTop Theater 5.1) MPEG2 decoder card Figure 1-5: Connecting Creative PC-DVD.
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Page 14: Installing Software In Windows 95/98
Setting Up the Audio Drivers Installing the Applications Figure 2-1: Message box indicating the Using Sound Blaster Live! Value detection of a device. Configuring Your Speakers If a dialog box similar to Figure 2-2 Experiencing Sound Blaster Live! Value... -
Page 15: Installing The Applications
4. Click the OK button. 4. Click the OK button. The required files are copied to your 5. At the Copying Files dialog box, click hard disk. the Browse button and select the folder AUDIO\Language\WIN95DRV where Language is the language of the software that you want to install. -
Page 16: Using Sound Blaster Live! Value
“4 To run PlayCenter, bring your pointer to the Speakers” option; if you leave the Output top of the screen to display Creative Launcher, value as “2 Speakers”, there will be no click the Programs tab, and then click the sound from your rear speakers. -
Page 17: Experiencing Sound Blaster Live! Value
You may want to reinstall the audio drivers if Easy-to-follow ScreenCam movies to you think they have been corrupted. To do so: show you how to use Sound Blaster Live! 1. Insert the installation disc into your and get the most out of it. CD-ROM drive. -
Page 18: Installing Software In Windows Nt 4.0
E:\ is the CD-ROM drive letter, and then click the OK button. Note: You cannot install more than one Sound Blaster audio card of the same type 7. In the Add Unlisted Or Updated Driver on your computer. dialog box, click Analog Joystick Driver, and then click the OK button. -
Page 19: Experiencing Sound Blaster Live! Value
Blaster Drivers Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the You may want to remove unused Sound Blaster ISA and PCI audio drivers after you Installation Disc have removed the cards from your computer. To remove the drivers, use the procedure in the You may want to reinstall the audio drivers if previous section, “Reinstalling the Audio... -
Page 20: A General Specifications
General Specifications This section lists the specifications of your AC ’97 Codec Mixer audio cards. Mixes EMU10K1 audio sources and analog sources such as CD Audio, Line In, Microphone, Auxiliary, TAD and PC Features Speaker Selectable input source or mixing of PCI Bus Mastering various audio sources for recording PCI Specification Version 2.1 compliant... -
Page 21: Connectivity
Creative Multi Speaker Surround AUX_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin (CMSS Molex connector on card Multi-speaker technology TAD line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card Professional-quality panning and mixing algorithm CD_SPDIF digital input via 2-pin Molex connector on card, accepting sampling Independent multiple sound sources can rates of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz... -
Page 22: Sb16 Emulation In Ms-Dos/Windows 95/98
SB16 Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98 This appendix is organized as follows: incompatible with Windows 95/98, or there are insufficient system resources to Background play the game with Windows 95/98 Understanding the Installation Program in loaded. In such cases, use the MS-DOS Windows 95/98 mode, in which only the real-mode Understanding the System Resource... -
Page 23: The Autoexec.bat File Settings
The installation program adds the following statements to the file: AUTOEXEC.BAT The CONFIG.SYS File Settings SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SB The installation program adds the following EINIT.COM statements to the CONFIG.SYS file: The first two statements set up the DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS environment variables for your audio card. -
Page 24: Input/Output (I/O) Addresses
Stereo music synthesizer 388H to 38BH audio card includes the following: CTSYN Environment Variable Interrupt Request (IRQ) Line BLASTER Environment Variable An IRQ line is a signal line that a device uses CTSYN Environment to notify your computer’s central processor... -
Page 25: Blaster Environment Variable
DMA channels of the SB interface. Its syntax its I/O address or DMA channel. To find the current SB Live! SB16 BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 Emulation resources in MS-DOS mode: The parameters in the command are as 1. Switch to your SB Live! DOS driver follows. -
Page 26: Ms-Dos Mode Utilities
Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, and Adlib audio device, that is, Sound Blaster, Sound digital audio emulation. If an application Blaster 16, Roland Sound Canvas, and so on. provides all these as options, specify the Others will provide an option for music and choices in this order: digital audio separately;... - Page 27 To set values in the command DOS SB Emulation in DOS disabled. Under SBEMIXER line: rare circumstances you may need to manually reconfigure DOS SB Emulation, for example, At the DOS prompt, type the SBEMIXER if there is conflict in DOS before it can boot to command in a single line.
- Page 28 to 3, and SBEGO.EXE channel used by the audio interface use the Windows-assigned resource Use this to confirm whether SB16 Emulation ”. configuration is properly installed and working. SB16 Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98 B-7...
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Page 29: C Changing Audio Card Settings
Device Manager tab. example, when you do not have enough IRQ 4. Double-click Sound, Video And Game lines. Controllers, and then select Creative Gameport Joystick. This appendix is organized as follows: 5. Click the Properties button. Enabling/Disabling Gameport Joystick Interface 6. -
Page 30: Enabling/Disabling Other Features
Enabling/Disabling Other from the Sound Blaster menu Features • Click the Start button on the taskbar, point to Programs, point to Creative, point to In Windows 95/98 and Windows Sound Blaster Live!, and then click AudioHQ. NT 4.0 Check out the applets within the Use the applets under Creative AudioHQ to AudioHQ window. -
Page 31: Troubleshooting
1. Double-click the My Computer icon on applet. your Windows desktop. 2. In the My Computer window, right-click Display Creative Launcher. It is found at the CD-ROM drive icon. the top or bottom of your screen (you may 3. On the shortcut menu, click AutoPlay and have to bring your pointer to the edge of follow the instructions on the screen. - Page 32 Use Creative For example, if you are playing DVD games Mixer to adjust the volume, if necessary. or movies, make sure in Creative Mixer you unmute the Auxiliary device in the Play The powered speakers or external Control view and select the Auxiliary device amplifier are connected to the card’s Line...
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Page 33: Insufficient Soundfont Cache
The joystick is not working properly in Insufficient SoundFont some programs. Cache The program may use the system processor timing to calculate the joystick position. When the processor is fast, the program may There is insufficient memory to load determine the position of the joystick SoundFonts. -
Page 34: Problems In Dos
• MIDI Devices And Instruments the OK button. the items other than 7. Restart your system to allow Windows • Audio for Creative SB Live! 95/98 to reassign resources to your audio • MIDI for Creative SB Live! card and/or the conflicting device. - Page 35 6. Browse to C:\Program Files\Creative\PC- 7. Click the OK button twice to close. DVD Encore and double-click the entry Now when you double-click the Disc Detector ctdvdply icon, the Encore DVD Player is launched. The Name box now displays the entry ctdvdply.
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Page 36: E Technical Support
Creative. Error message on the screen and how it Before contacting ‘Creative Technical came about. Services’, please ensure that you have read Information on the adapter card that Appendix D, ‘Troubleshooting’. -
Page 37: Inside Europe
You will be part of an interactive If you find that you have a problem with your community of Creative’s product users. Creative product and believe that it needs to be Here you can share experiences and ideas repaired or replaced, you should verify the and also seek solutions to problems. -
Page 38: Returning A Product For Repair
More than 30 days since date of To avoid tariffs when shipping a product to Creative Labs from outside the E.U., you must purchase complete the relevant customs documentation First contact European Technical Support (see before shipping the product (please allow 30 Creative Technical Services section for days). - Page 39 Note: This warranty gives you specific accident, abuse, misuse, alterations (by legal rights. You may have other rights persons other than Creative or its authorized which vary from country to country. Certain repair agents), moisture, corrosive limitations in this warranty are not...
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Page 40: Creative Technical Services
Creative Technical Services CREATIVE LABS (IRELAND) LTD., Technical Support Department, Ballycoolin Business Park, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland. Belgium United Kingdom :+44 1189 344 744 :+32 (02) 7171 198 Germany and Eastern Europe Denmark :+45 3525 9498 :+49 89 957 9081... - Page 41 AutoFax es un servicio que le permite obtener información técnica sobre los productos de Creative Labs. En Europa, llame al número siguiente +353 1 8203667 Escriba Go Blaster y pulse la tecla <Intro> tras el indicativo de CompuServe. Met AutoFax kunt u productinformatie en technische informatie opvragen via de fax.