Creative SB0060 - Sound Blaster Live, User Manual

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1-6 Knowing and Installing Your Cards
❑
The SPDIF In jack on the Digital I/O
card does not support Dolby Digital
(AC-3 compressed SPDIF) formats.
Therefore, do not connect it to the
AC-3 SPDIF Output of your Encore
Dxr2 card or consumer DVD player;
otherwise, you might not get any
sound.
❑
If you are playing games in Windows
95/98 MS-DOS mode (that is, pure
DOS mode), you must:
•
Make sure the CD In connector
and the Analog Audio connector
of the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
drive are connected.
• In addition, if you get distorted
audio, do not connect the CD
SPDIF connector to the Digital
Audio connector of the CD-
ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
❑
If you connect to the Digital Audio
and Analog Audio connectors of the
same CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive,
make sure in Surround Mixer, you do
not unmute CD Audio and CD
Digital at the same time.
Figure 1-5: Connecting other devices.
CD-ROM drive
Line In
Mic In
Rear Out
Joystick/MIDI
GamePad
Line-out
Cassette and CD player,
Synthesizer, etc.
Microphone
MPC-to-MPC (4-pin)
audio cable
CD Audio
connector
Line Out
External digital device
Digital
In Out
Digital I/O card
Digital I/O
cable
RCA cables
SPDIF
Out
SPDIF
In
Audio Extension
(Digital I/O) connector
Multi-speaker system*
Digital
DIN
Digital
DIN
Sound Blaster Live! card
MIDI cable adapters
MIDI cables
To analog output of
FourPointSurround
speakers.
MIDI In
MIDI Out
CD SPDIF
connector
MPC-to-MPC (2-pin) audio cable
MIDI device
Thru Out
In
MIDI device
DVD-ROM drive
*e.g., FourPointSurround or Desktop
Theater Digital Speaker Systems
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