Digital Audio Options; Ms-Dos Mode Utilities; Sbecfg.exe; Sbemixer.exe - Creative Sound Blaster PCI512 User Manual

Digital Audio Options

SB PCI512 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
MS-DOS Mode
Utilities
The SB PCI512 card includes a few MS-DOS
utilities. These utilities require the SB PCI512
DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be loaded.

SBECFG.EXE

Use the SBECFG.EXE utility to obtain the
hardware settings and the status of the SB
PCI512 card.Typing SBECFG.EXE at the
command prompt displays the following
hardware settings:
PCI Hardware Settings: Port, IRQ
Sound Blaster Emulation: Port, IRQ,
DMA
MPU-401 Emulation (GM, Roland
MT-32/LAPC-1) Emulation: Port
Adlib Emulation: Port
The emulation settings appear only if they are
enabled.

SBEMIXER.EXE

Use SBEMIXER.EXE to change the volume
levels of the MPU-401 instrument set used on
the SB PCI512 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 values in the command
line:
• At the DOS prompt, type the
command in a single line. Its syntax is:
SBEMIXER [/S: x ] [/W: x ] [/C: x ] [/M: x ] [/?]
where square brackets [ ] denote optional
parameters, and:
This
Parameter Specifies
/S:x Synth volume. x can be a
value from the range 0 to
127.
/W:x Wave volume. x can be a
value from the range 0 to
127.
/C:x CD audio volume. x can
be a value from the range
0 to 127.
/M:x
/?
An example of an SBEMIXER command is
SBEMIXER /S: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/LAPC-1 mode".
To set SBEMIXER values within the
Mixer screen:
• At the DOS prompt, type
SBEMIXER
SBEMIXER
The interactive editor mode allows you to
change the mixer settings with the mouse,
<Tab>, <PgUp>, <PgDn>, or arrow keys.
Use the Save button to save the settings for the
next session.
SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Window 95/98 B-5
Synth MT-32/LAPC-1
mode.
For x, 0 is Off, 1 is On.
View a short description
of the parameters.