Troubleshooting 29
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The Sound Blaster Live! card includes a few MS-DOS utilities. These utilities require the Sound Blaster
Live! DOS driver
SBEINIT.COM
to be loaded.
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Use the
SBECFG.EXE
utility to obtain the hardware settings and the status of the Sound Blaster Live!
card. Typing
SBECFG.EXE
at the command prompt displays the following hardware settings:
❑
PCI Hardware Settings: Port, IRQ
❑
Sound Blaster Emulation: Port, IRQ, DMA
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MPU-401 Emulation (GM, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1): Port
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Adlib Emulation: Port
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Use
SBEMIXER.EXE
to change the volume levels of the MPU-401 instrument set used on the Sound
Blaster Live! 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
SBEMIXER
command in a single line:
SBEMIXER [/S:x] [/W:x] [/C:x] [/M:x] [/?]
Square brackets [ ] denote optional parameters.
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
Synth MT-32/LAPC-1 mode. For
x
,
0 is Off, 1 is On.
/?
View a short description of the parameters.
For example:
SBEMIXER /S:64 /W:120 /C:50 /M:0
To set
SBEMIXER
values within the Mixer screen:
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At the DOS prompt, type
SBEMIXER
In interactive editor mode, you can change mixer settings with the mouse, TAB, PGUP, PGDN, or arrow
keys.
Use the Save button to save the settings for the next session.
