Live! Drive IR Quick Start SB0010 11
Using Your
Live! Drive IR
The Live! Drive IR will most undoubtedly give you endless hours of listening pleasure. The
following information and diagrams on the next two pages show how you can connect to your
Live! Drive IR to optimize your enjoyment.
Playing Games and Music,
and Watching Movies
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With FourPointSurround or DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker System from Cambridge
SoundWorks, you can experience crystal clear gaming sequences or music from the Digital
DIN connection. If you want an even more immersive surround experience while watching
movies, get the Cambridge SoundWorks' DTT3500 5.1 Digital speakers.
Watching DVD Movies
Using SoftPC-DVD
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If you are using Creative SoftPC-DVD to watch DVD movies on your PC, connect from the
SPDIF Output of your Live! Drive IR to an external Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder such as the
DeskTop Theater speaker systems.
Recording and Content
Authoring
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The Live! Drive IR fits into the standard 5¼" drive bay of your computer and thus allows you
easy access to the following connectors from its front panel:
• MIDI input/output connectors for connection to MIDI devices;
• A second analog Line In allows you to connect to an additional input device (e.g. a CD
player) for recording. Switchable to Microphone mode for a second microphone input,
with front panel volume control;
• A Headphones jack to connect to your headphones, with front panel volume control.
• A set of SPDIF (RCA) input/output jacks for recording to and from external digital
devices such as MiniDisc or DAT recorders
• A set of SPDIF Optical input/output jacks for recording to and from external digital
devices such as MiniDisc or DAT recorders via an optical connection.
• A set of Auxiliary input jacks for recording from consumer equipment such as television,
video cassette recorder and CD players.
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A Digital DIN connector for connection to digital speakers such as the FourPointSurround or
DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker Systems.
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The Headphones and Microphone connections utilizes ¼" jacks for high-quality connectivity.
FourPointSurround and DeskTop
Theater 5.1 speaker systems,
Digital I/O Module, Digital
Output Module, Digital I/O card
and cables are available
separately.
