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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
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- Page 1 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.
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Page 3: Features
CDDB Data, the Creative if you fail to comply with any term or Software with other programs, you shall not CDDB Client and CDDB Servers. - Page 4 PURPOSE. CREATIVE IS NOT OBLIGATED GENERAL DATA ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO TO PROVIDE ANY UPDATES, UPGRADES This Agreement is binding on you as well as your THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, OR TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE employees, employers, contractors and agents, and EVEN IF CREATIVE OR ITS LICENSORS SOFTWARE.
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Page 5: Safety Information
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Page 6: Table Of Contents
The All-Round Audio Solution for Internet and Digital Home Entertainment..xi System Requirements....................xii Live!Ware Benefits.....................xii Getting More Information..................xiii Where To Go From Here ..................xiii Other Recommendations..................xiii Document Conventions .................... xiii Your Audio Card ........................1-2 Installing the Card......................... 1-3 Connecting Related Peripherals ................... -
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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 Control.................... -
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Interrupt Request (IRQ) Line...................B-4 Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channel ..............B-4 Environment Variables......................B-5 CTSYN Environment Variable ................B-5 BLASTER Environment Variable ................B-5 Determining Resources......................B-6 Selecting 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... - 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...
- Page 10 If you wish to create your own music or audio content in the future, your Sound Blaster Live! card also offers you many upgrade options which will allow you to connect multiple digital and analog devices simultaneously, including keyboards and other music gear, as well as optical connection to MiniDisc and DAT recorders.
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Page 11: Your Audio Card
Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately) CD-ROM drive required for software installation Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 gives you an estimate of the hard disk space required when you select it on the installation screen. Included applications may need higher system requirements or microphone for basic functionalities. - Page 12 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. For hardware and software installation instructions, refer to Chapters 1 and 2. To learn about the bundled applications, refer to Chapters 3 and 4.
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Page 13: Installing The Card
This chapter is organised as follows: Your Audio Card Installing the Card Connecting Related Peripherals Enhancing Your Sound Blaster Live! Experience Positioning Your Speakers Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 1-1... - Page 14 Your audio card has these jacks and connectors which allow you to attach other devices: AUX connector CD Audio connector Connects to internal audio sources such as Connects to the Analog Audio output on a CD-ROM A jack is a one-hole connecting TV Tuner, MPEG, or other similar cards or DVD-ROM drive using a CD audio cable.
- Page 15 3. Remove the cover from your system. 4. Remove the metal plate from one unused PCI expansion slot in your system and put the screw aside, to be used later.
- Page 16 CD-ROM drive Subwoofer channels. Digital Mode: Connects to digital speakers*, MiniDisc or DAT via minijack-to-DIN cable. For instructions on how to switch between digital and analog modes, see “Switching between analog and digital output modes” on page 3-4. MPC-to-MPC (2-pin)
- Page 17 “Switching between analog and digital output modes” on page 3-4 To watch DVD movies on your PC, why not get Creative’s PC-DVD kit which comes with a PC-DVD drive and Encore MPEG2 decoder card? You can connect your Encore Dxr2, Dxr3 or MPEG2 decoder card to an external Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder such as the DeskTop Theater speaker systems.
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Page 18: Playing Games And Music, And Watching Movies
RCA cable Sub Inputs * e.g., DTT2200 Speaker Dolby Digital Digital System from Cambridge (AC-3) SoundWorks SPDIF In DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker System Figure 1-4: Connecting peripherals to the Sound Blaster Live! card. 1-6 Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1... - Page 19 Live! Player 5.1 (see page 1-8). card Dolby Digital Decoder/Amplifier 3 sets of 3.5mm Connecting to External (stereo)-to-RCA Consumer Electronic Devices: cable Discrete 6-channel Amplifier Analog Discrete Front, Rear 6-channel and Centre/ Amplifier Sub Inputs Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 1-7...
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Page 20: Recording And Content Authoring
Digital I/O card **e.g., FourPointSurround Note: FourPointSurround and Desktop Theater 5.1 speaker systems, Digital I/O or DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker Systems* Module, Digital I/O card, Live! Drive IR and cables are available separately. 1-8 Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1... -
Page 21: Connectivity
• A Digital DIN connector for connection to digital speakers such as the FourPointSurround or DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker Systems; • A second analog Line In allows you to connect to an additional input device (e.g. a CD player) for recording. -
Page 22: Problems Installing Software
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 are applicable to all Windows operating systems. - Page 23 9. Restart your computer when prompted. 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...
- Page 24 4. In the Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog box, select Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1, and then click the Add/Remove button. 5. In the Creative Uninstaller dialog box, select the check boxes of the items you want to delete and then click the Next button.
- Page 25 You may want to reinstall only the audio drivers if you think they have been corrupted. 1. Insert the installation disc into your CD-ROM drive. The disc supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically. If not, see “Problems Installing Software” on page C-1.
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Page 26: Creative Sound Blaster Live! Tour
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:... -
Page 27: Creative Diagnostics
This is a good place to start to learn more about the features of Sound Blaster Live! and to experience its awesome capabilities. The tour uses PixAround’s technology to immerse you in a panaromic “walk-through” experience which encompasses a number of closely-related interactive and informative demos, each featuring a different aspect of Sound Blaster Live!. -
Page 28: Surround Mixer
Creative Surround Mixer is the nerve centre for setting and controlling the 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 ->... - Page 29 The three buttons at the left side of the Main deck allows you to switch between three different views: • In the EAX view, you can select and create your audio presets and position audio sources within the speaker configuration space.
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Page 30: Enabling Bass Redirection
To enable Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoding: 1. In the Speaker view, clear the Digital Output only check box. 2. Follow the steps 1 to 3 described in the previous section and then click the AC-3 Decode button if it is not yet enabled. -
Page 31: Audiohq
AudioHQ contains several control utilities that allow you to view, audition, or set up the audio properties of one or more audio devices on your computer. AudioHQ can be accessed using any of the following methods: • Click Start -> Programs -> Creative -> Sound Blaster Live! -> AudioHQ;... -
Page 32: Soundfont Control
A variation bank can only be cleared by clearing its main bank. 6. Repeat Steps 3, 4 or 5 as required. By stacking a SoundFont file instead of replacing one with the other, you may return to the original sounds or use the new selection. - Page 33 5. To clear an instrument from the stack, select the instrument and then click the Clear button. 6. For faster processing of SoundFont files, the files are loaded into memory. You need to set the maximum amount of cache memory your SoundFont files can occupy, so that your system performance does not suffer from insufficient memory.
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Page 34: Device Controls
Device Controls allows you to configure for audio playback the audio devices that allow multiple simultaneous Wave playback sessions. For example, you can play five Wave tracks at the same time and enjoy the sounds from them all. This feature is currently not supported under Windows 2000. -
Page 35: Creative Keyboard
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. -
Page 36: Eax Control
To select multiple notes to play simultaneously, use your right mouse button to click the keys, which will be marked by black dots. To release the keys, right-click them one by one, or click the All Notes Off button for simultaneous release. -
Page 37: Autoeax
1. In the Application list, select the audio application with which to associate an audio preset for a particular speaker output. If the application is not in the list, click the Browse button to browse for and open the application. -
Page 38: Creative Playcenter 2
MP3/WMA encoder for ripping audio CD tracks into compressed digital audio files. It can encode tracks at speeds of up to 8x faster than normal play speed and up to 320 kbps. 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. -
Page 39: Creative Lava!
“personas” (for example, a male or female person, chipmunk etc.) when you talk to the other party. Disguise you voice and your friend on the other end may think he’s talking to another person! To make use of these voice effects, just click the Voice Effects button (also known as the EAX button) and select the desired persona from the list. -
Page 40: Creative Keytar
Just hold the chord with one hand until it is time to change the chord and use the other hand to strum or pluck the strings according to a tune's rhythmic variation. You don’t need to worry about notes, all you need is a sense of rhythm and to remember your chord keys. -
Page 41: Multimedia Playback
Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 offers you digital and internet entertainment, multimedia playback, and gaming. The following reference tables point you to the bundled applications that will help you achieve your goals. Multimedia Applications Playback DVD Movies To play back DVD movies on your Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1, you must first have a DVD-compatible drive. -
Page 42: Digital Entertainment
Playback MIDI MIDI (*.MID) is 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. -
Page 43: Internet Entertainment
PC. With Creative Keytar, you can literally transform your computer keyboard into a guitar. And strum, using your mouse! Play Keyboard Music with You need not invest in a musical keyboard to be a one- Auto-Accompaniment/One- man-band. Creative Rhythmania lets you play music on Man Band your computer keyboard. - Page 44 You can share these enhanced MP3 songs even with someone who does not own an SB Live! card. Chat over the Internet using Take on another personality or life-form while talking over...
- Page 45 DOS games already in the market. Audio Presets For Legacy/ You can still enjoy audio effects even if your game does Existing Games not have EAX support. You card bundles over 50 presets for use with existing games.
- Page 46 16-bit and 8-bit digitizing in stereo and mono modes Playback of 64 audio channels, each at an arbitrary sample rate ADC recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz Dithering for 8-bit and 16-bit recording...
- Page 47 Mixes EMU10K1 audio sources and analog sources such as CD Audio, Line In, Microphone, Auxiliary and TAD Selectable input source or mixing of various audio sources for recording 16-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48 kHz sample rate Software record and playback control of Master, Digitized Voice, and inputs from MIDI...
- Page 48 • ANALOG OUT: Center and Subwoofer channels • DIGITAL OUT: Front, Rear, Center and Subwoofer SPDIF digital outputs Three line-level analog 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.
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Page 49: Background
• Click Start -> Programs -> MS-DOS Prompt. In the Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode There may be times when you do not want to or cannot run a game from the MS-DOS box. The game may be incompatible with Windows 95/98, or there are insufficient system resources to play the game with Windows 95/98 loaded. - Page 50 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 “Environment Variables” on page B-5. The third statement runs SBEINIT.COM which is the SB Live! MS-DOS driver. It is required for the SB Live! card to function properly under MS-DOS mode.
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Page 51: Input/Output (I/O) Addresses
Interrupt Request (IRQ) Line Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channel If your card encounters a conflict with a peripheral device, you may need to change its resource In the following tables, the settings. For details, see “Resolving I/O Conflicts” on page C-7. -
Page 52: Interrupt Request (Irq) Line
Stereo music synthesiser 388H to 38BH An IRQ line is a signal line that a device uses to notify your computer’s central processor that it wants to send or receive data for processing. Table B-2: Possible default interrupt request (IRQ) line assignment. -
Page 53: Environment Variables
Environment variables are used to pass hardware configuration information to the software in your system. For MS-DOS, your audio card includes the following: CTSYN Environment Variable BLASTER Environment Variable The CTSYN environment variable points to the location of the file, which usually CTSYN.INI... - Page 54 The resource list may show three entries of “Input/Output Range” and two entries of “Direct Memory Access”. They correspond to the sequence of entries in Table B-1 and Table B-3. If the number of entries do not match, a good estimate of the identity of the device is its I/O address or DMA channel.
- Page 55 Sound Blaster digital audio. In such a case, there are often two separate menus to configure. Some games allow you to set the MIDI port address and IRQ for music and sound. Make sure that these settings correspond to the values displayed by SBECFG.EXE or the Resources tabbed page of the Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation Properties dialog box.
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Page 56: Sbecfg.exe
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 hardware settings and the status of the SB Live! card.Typing SBECFG.EXE at the command prompt displays the following hardware settings:... -
Page 57: System Resource Settings
Its syntax is: SBESET SBESET [-A xxx ] [-I x ] [-D x ] [-H x ] [-P xxx ] [-d x ] [-w x ] where square brackets [ ] denote optional parameters, and:... - Page 58 SBESET -A240 -I5 -D3 -w0 which corresponds to “set the SB interface’s base 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”.
- Page 59 1. Click Start -> Settings -> 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 and select your CD- ROM drive. 4. Click the Properties button.
- Page 60 Check the following: The headphones are connected to the Headphones jack. Under the Speaker view in the Main deck of Surround Mixer, make sure that the Speaker selected is “Headphones”. In the Mixer deck of Surround Mixer, the recording source selected is “What U Hear”.
- Page 61 You have selected the correct source in the Mixer deck. If both the above conditions have been met and you still do not get any sound, click the red plus sign above the VOL control and check whether the Digital Output Only check box is selected.
- Page 62 Control application) is at the opposite end compared to the position to which you have panned the source in the Main 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: •...
- Page 63 The audio card’s joystick port may be conflicting with the system’s joystick port. To solve this problem: • Disable the audio card’s joystick port and use the system port instead. Do the following: 1. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel. 2. In the Control Panel window, double-click the System icon.
- Page 64 Increase your system’s 8 bit I/O recovery time of the BIOS setting, usually under the Chipset experience with system software. Feature Settings section. Or, if available, you may adjust the AT Bus speed to a slower clock. If the problem persists, try a different joystick.
- Page 65 Device Manager in Windows 95/98. If you still do not know which card is causing the conflict, remove all cards except the audio card and other essential cards (for example, disk controller and graphics cards). Add each card back until Device Manager indicates that a conflict has occurred.
- Page 66 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, right-click the Disc Detector icon, and then click Properties.