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- Sound Blaster user notes
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- WAVmaker comes with full support for Creative Labs' popular line of Sound
- Blaster cards. For the players (WM SBMIDI, WM SBWAV) and the card settings
- controller (WM SBset) to work, the card and the software which came with it
- must have been installed correctly. If you have a problem making the above
- applications run, check the following:
-
- (1) Your CONFIG.SYS should contain the following lines (your choices of Sound
- Blaster home drive & directory, base I/O address, IRQ and DMA channel
- settings - the A, I, D and H parameters - may differ; this is OK as long
- as they are consistent and satisfy the hardware requirements detailed in
- your Sound Blaster documentation):
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 16:
-
- DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5
- DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster Pro and Sound Blaster Pro 2:
-
- DEVICE=C:\SBPRO\DRV\CTSBPRO.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1
- DEVICE=C:\SBPRO\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 2.0:
-
- DEVICE=C:\SB\DRV\CTSB2.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1
- DEVICE=C:\SB\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 1.0 and below:
-
- DEVICE=C:\SB\DRV\CTSB.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1
- DEVICE=C:\SB\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
-
- (2) Your AUTOEXEC.BAT should contain the following lines (again, your choices
- of parameter values may differ, and there may be additional parameters in
- the BLASTER string, e.g. M220, specifying the mixer chip base I/O port;
- the following examples show the bare-bones minimum):
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 16:
-
- SET SOUND=C:\SB16
- SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5
- SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster Pro and Sound Blaster Pro 2:
-
- SET SOUND=C:\SBPRO
- SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
- SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 2.0 and below:
-
- SET SOUND=C:\SB
- SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
- SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G
-
- Note that if you choose the MAP:E (Extended MIDI mapping) setting, only MIDI
- channels 1-10 will be used, with number 10 serving as the drum channel; MAP:B
- (Basic MIDI mapping) uses only channels 13-16, with number 16 serving as the
- drum channel. MAP:G gives you full General MIDI mapping (channels 1-16, with
- number 10 serving as the drum channel).
-
- (3) The /BLASTER= setting in your CONFIG.SYS and the BLASTER= environment
- string in your AUTOEXEC.BAT must be consistent. For the /UNIT=<x>
- setting, you should increase <x> by one if you have another hardware
- dependent driver (e.g., CTSBPRO.SYS) installed.
-
- (4) The DRV subdirectory in your Sound Blaster home directory (e.g. the
- C:\SB16\DRV directory for the Sound Blaster 16 in the above examples)
- should contain the following drivers:
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 16:
-
- AUXDRV.DRV (AUXiliary DRiVer for mixer chip control)
- CTMIDI16.DRV (CreaTive MIDI driver for Sound Blaster 16)
- CTWDSK.DRV (CreaTive WAV DiSK double buffering mode driver)
- CTMMSYS.SYS (CreaTive MultiMedia SYStem driver)
- CTSB16.SYS (CreaTive SB16 hardware dependent driver)
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster Pro 2:
-
- AUXDRV.DRV (AUXiliary DRiVer for mixer chip control)
- CTMIDIP2.DRV (CreaTive MIDI driver for Sound Blaster Pro 2)
- CTWDSK.DRV (CreaTive WAV DiSK double buffering mode driver)
- CTMMSYS.SYS (CreaTive MultiMedia SYStem driver)
- CTSBPRO.SYS (CreaTive SB PRO 2 & 1 hardware dependent driver)
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster Pro:
-
- AUXDRV.DRV (AUXiliary DRiVer for mixer chip control)
- CTMIDIP.DRV (CreaTive MIDI driver for Sound Blaster Pro)
- CTWDSK.DRV (CreaTive WAV DiSK double buffering mode driver)
- CTMMSYS.SYS (CreaTive MultiMedia SYStem driver)
- CTSBPRO.SYS (CreaTive SB PRO 2 & 1 hardware dependent driver)
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 2.0:
-
- AUXDRV.DRV (AUXiliary DRiVer for mixer chip control)
- CTMIDI2.DRV (CreaTive MIDI driver for Sound Blaster 2.0-)
- CTWDSK.DRV (CreaTive WAV DiSK double buffering mode driver)
- CTMMSYS.SYS (CreaTive MultiMedia SYStem driver)
- CTSB2.SYS (CreaTive SB 2.0 hardware dependent driver)
-
- ■ For the Sound Blaster 1.0:
-
- AUXDRV.DRV (AUXiliary DRiVer for mixer chip control)
- CTMIDI2.DRV (CreaTive MIDI driver for Sound Blaster 2.0-)
- CTWDSK.DRV (CreaTive WAV DiSK double buffering mode driver)
- CTMMSYS.SYS (CreaTive MultiMedia SYStem driver)
- CTSB.SYS (CreaTive SB 1.0- hardware dependent driver)
-
- WM SBWAV needs version 3.05 or later of CTWDSK.DRV to run. WM SBset needs
- version 3.02 or later of AUXDRV.DRV to run.
-
- Missing drivers (and updated versions of existing ones) can be obtained from
- Creative Labs' user support network. Consult your Sound Blaster documentation
- for the support site closest to you.