Creative SB0060 - Sound Blaster Live, User Manual

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Using Sound Blaster Live! 4-5
Creative Surround Mixer is the nerve center for these tasks, after you have specified the speaker
output:
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Testing your speakers;
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Combining and manipulating sound from various audio input sources: mixing them;
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Setting environment presets, with an option to set the Environmental Audio effects;
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Specifying the CMSS mode, and the audio input source positions. CMSS is a Creative patent
pending technology that expands stereo or mono sources to multi-point speakers.
Best of all, you can save endless combinations of these settings as super-environment presets for
the selected speaker output! A super-environment preset, when selected, is your passport to a
one-step automatic configuration of speakers, mixer and effects for whatever you want to do:
play a particular game, record to a particular medium, record or play in a particular style—each
style having its unique set of positions of audio input sources.
Surround Mixer consists of three decks:
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Preset deck
It is always the top deck. In the upper left corner is the Surround Mixer title: clicking it
displays the system menu. At its right is the button: clicking it switches the Surround Mixer
among its three views; the tooltip indicates the next view when the button is clicked.
The Preset deck allows you to select a super-environment preset, save new ones, delete
unwanted presets, and import and export presets.
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Environment deck
The Environment deck allows you to specify the speaker output, position audio sources within
that speaker configuration space, perform a speaker test, select the (audio-only) environment,
with an option to fully define an environment.
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Mixer deck
The Mixer deck allows you to do mixing of sounds from various audio input sources when
recording and when playing.
For details on what you can do in Surround Mixer, explore the Help file.
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