User guide

Using Sound Blaster Live! 16
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Creative Ke
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board allows
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ou to pla
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musical notes on various instruments much like a composer pla
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s
notes on a piano (or other instrument) while creatin
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or arran
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in
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music. To edit the sound, use Vienna
SoundFont Studio or another sound editor.
0,',,QSXW To select a MIDI input device:
1. In the Select MIDI In box in the Options dialo
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, click the
correct MIDI port.
2. Click the OK button.
You can use external MIDI input devices to audition
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our MIDI
banks and instruments. First, connect a MIDI input device to
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our audio card and then select that device in Creative Ke
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board.
7HVWDQ,QVWUXPHQW To test an instrument:
1. In Creative Ke
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board, click the bank and the instrument
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ou want.
2. Click the ke
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s on the ke
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board to test the sound. If
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ou have an external MIDI input device,
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ou
ma
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find it easier to use.
Use mouse to:
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Select multiple notes to pla
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simultaneousl
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. Use the ri
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ht mouse button to click the ke
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s, which are
indicated b
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black dots.
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Release the ke
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s b
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ri
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ht-clickin
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them one b
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one,
or
click the All Notes Off button for simultaneous release.
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Pla
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a sequence of notes b
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dra
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in
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the mouse across the ke
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board.
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Shorten sustained pla
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back b
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clickin
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the All Notes Off button.
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