User guide

Troubleshooting 39
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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
utilit
y
to obtain the hardware settin
g
s and the status of the Sound Blaster Live!
card. T
y
pin
g
SBECFG.EXE
at the command prompt displa
y
s the followin
g
hardware settin
g
s:
T
PCI Hardware Settin
g
s: Port, IRQ
T
Sound Blaster Emulation: Port, IRQ, DMA
T
MPU-401 Emulation (GM, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1): Port
T
Adlib Emulation: Port
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Use
SBEMIXER.EXE
to chan
g
e 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
settin
g
s for
SBEMIXER.EXE
are independent of the Creative Mixer settin
g
s in Windows 95/98.
To set SBEMIXER values in the command line:
At the DOS prompt, t
y
pe the
SBEMIXER
command in a sin
g
le line:
SBEMIXER [/S: x ] [/W: x ] [/C: x ] [/M: x ] [/?]
Square brackets [ ] denote optional parameters.
Parameter Specifies
/S:
x S
y
nth volume. x can be a value from the ran
g
e 0 to 127.
/W:
x Wave volume. x can be a value from the ran
g
e 0 to 127.
/C:
x CD audio volume. x can be a value from the ran
g
e 0 to 127.
/M:
x S
y
nth 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:
• At the DOS
p
rom
p
t, t
yp
e
SBEMIXER
In interactive editor mode,
y
ou can chan
g
e mixer settin
g
s with the mouse, TAB, PGUP, PGDN, or arrow
ke
y
s.
Use the Save button to save the settin
g
s for the next session.
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