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- SOUND BLASTER PRO LATEST INFORMATION
- ====================================
-
- This file contains information that is not available during the
- printing of the manual. Please read all the sections before you
- proceed with any installation procedure .
-
- This file contains the following sections:
-
- 1. Software installation
- 2. CD-ROM Device Drivers Installation
- 3. Features for Future Enhancement
- 4 MIDI Files
- 5. SBSIM Support for MIDI
- 6. Upgrading of Sound Blaster Pro Mixer for DOS
- 7. Trouble Shooting for Installing Windows 3.1 Drivers
-
-
- 1. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
-
- The installation program, INST-HD.EXE will modify your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. Your original files will be
- renamed with the extension B~K.
-
- WINSETUP will NOT set up the drivers and applications properly if
- your BLASTER environment strings are incorrectly set. Please make
- sure that these environment strings are set properly before
- running WINSETUP.EXE. You may enter "SET" at the DOS prompt to
- check the environment settings. Refer to your Sound Blaster
- manual for more details on the BLASTER and SOUND environment
- strings.
-
- Normally, WINSETUP.EXE needs to be run only once. If the hardware
- settings of your sound card needs to be changed, use the DRIVER
- applet in CONTROL PANEL to change the settings of your Windows
- drivers. Refer to your Windows manual for more details on the
- DRIVER applet.
-
-
- 2. CD-ROM DEVICE DRIVERS INSTALLATION
-
- To run any CD-ROM programs, you need to have the following drivers
- installed:
-
- - SLCD.SYS
- - MSCDEX.EXE
-
- The driver MSCDEX.EXE is not included in this Sound Blaster
- software package. It should come with your CD-ROM drive in a
- separate diskette.
-
- NOTE
- ====
-
- If you have 3 or more logical or physical drives installed in
- your system, you must specify the LASTDRIVE command in your
- CONFIG.SYS by adding the following line.
-
- LASTDRIVE=?
-
- Where:
- ? specifies the last drive letter available for use
- ranging from A to Z.
-
- An example will be:
-
- LASTDRIVE=P
-
- Please refer to your DOS manual for more details.
-
- MORE ON SLCD.SYS
- ================
-
- SLCD.SYS is a hardware dependent device driver for SONY CD-ROM
- drive that you need to include in the CONFIG.SYS file. To install
- the driver manually, add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS
- file.
-
- DEVICE=[drive:][path]SLCD.SYS /B:xxx /D:name /M:x [/V] [/C] [/T:x]
-
- Where
- /B:xxx xxx specifies the Base I/O address of your CD-ROM
- interface. If the base address of your Sound Blaster
- Pro card is set at 220, then xxx will be 230. If the
- base address of your Sound Blaster Pro card is set at
- 240, then xxx will be 250.
-
- /D:name name specifies the device driver name which must be
- the same as the one used in MSCDEX.EXE. Example
- MSCD001.
-
- /M:x x specifies the data transfer mode. P for polled I/O
- mode and D for DMA mode. Using the D option will
- require the /T:x parameter.
-
- /T:x x specifies the DMA channel used for the CD-ROM data
- transfer when /M:D parameter is used. x must tally
- with the jumper setting at JP8 to JP13.
-
- /V Turns on the verbose mode of the driver to display
- information at installation time.
-
- /C To display the drive configuration at boot-up time.
-
- /K Enables a sector caching mechanism to improve the
- drive performance. Default is disabled.
-
- An example will be:
-
- DEVICE=C:\SBPRO\DRV\SLCD.SYS /B:230 /D:MSCD001 /V /C /M:P
-
-
- MORE ON MSCDEX.EXE
- ==================
-
- MSCDEX.EXE is the program used for Microsoft CD extension. It can
- be placed in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that it will be installed
- every time you boot-up. To install the driver manually, add the
- following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You can also run this
- command from the command line.
-
- [drive:][path]MSCDEX /D:name [/M:x][/E][/V][/L:drive_letter]
-
- Where
- /D:name name specifies a device name which must be the same
- as the one used in SLCD.SYS. Example: MSCD001.
-
- /M:x x specifies the number of 2K block cache buffer to be
- used for CD-ROM operation.
-
- Typically, each drive should have a minimum of 4 to 5
- buffers. The larger this number, the less your PC
- will have to read directly from the CD-ROM drive.
-
- /E tells MSCDEX.EXE to use expanded memory if your
- system has expanded memory.
-
- /V specify this switch if you wish to display
- information about memory usage.
-
- /L:letter specifies the drive letter you wish to assign to the
- first CD-ROM drive. The default is the next drive
- letter available.
-
- An example will be:
-
- MSCDEX /V /E /D:MSCD001 /M:15 /L:f
-
-
- 4. HARDWARE FEATURES FOR FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
-
- The setting of IRQ3 & IRQ11 on your sound card are for future
- enhancement purposes. Please do not use these two settings now as
- most of the software may not support them yet.
-
- The hardware selectable interrupt settings for the CD-ROM are also
- meant for future enhancement purposes. Please ignore these
- settings for the moment as the current CD software driver does not
- make use of these interrupts yet.
-
-
- 5. MIDI FILES
-
- When playing MIDI files with MMJBOX, a warning message in a dialog
- box may appear. The message is only an indication of whether the
- MIDI file conforms to Microsoft MIDI standard.
-
- Even if the file conforms to the standard, the message may still
- appear if the code defined by Microsoft is not indicated in the
- MIDI file. Please ignore the message if the MIDI files created
- conforms to the standard.
-
- For more information on how to indicate the code in your MIDI
- files, refer to the "Microsoft Windows Software Developer Kit".
-
- For a start, you can try out the MMJBOX application with the MIDI
- file CANYON.MID which can be found in your Windows directory. The
- MIDI files provided in the sub-directory \PLAYMIDI are created to
- support the MIDI MAPPER and they comply fully to the Multimedia PC
- rules. When you use MMJBOX in WINDOWS 3.1 to play these files,
- make sure that your MIDI MAPPER is set to either the SBP2 EXT FM
- or SBP2 BASIC FM. Using it with SBP2 ALL FM will cause the song
- to sound "cluttered".
-
- Refer to the manual for more information on MIDI file format and
- MIDI Mapper.
-
-
- 6. SBSIM SUPPORT FOR MIDI
-
- SBSIM (SB Simplified Interface Module) has now been updated to
- include support for the MIDI driver SBMIDI. To make use of the
- MIDI support, include a new section titled [MIDI] in your
- configuration file. The available keywords, and their default
- values, are as follows:
-
- [Midi]
- BufferSize=32 ; Specifies the size of the buffer
- ; to allocate for MIDI files, in
- ; Kbytes
- MidiMap=0 ; Specifies the type of MIDI file
- ; to be played:
- ; 0 = General MIDI files
- ; 1 = Basic MIDI files
- ; 2 = Extended MIDI files
- ; Note that types 1 and 2 are as
- ; defined in Multimedia Windows.
-
- Note that you need to load SBMIDI (the Sound Blaster MIDI
- driver) before you invoke SBSIM.
-
-
- The Music player program, MUSIC.EXE, has also been updated to play
- MIDI files. The command set is the same, except that the commands
- /REPEAT, /TEMPO, /TRANSPOSE and /WAIT are not available when
- playing MIDI files. Also, a new command is implemented to allow
- switching of MIDI modes.
-
- The resulting command set of MUSIC.EXE is as follows:
-
- Usage: MUSIC [ /Q ] option..
- where option is one of:
- /PLAY:filename +
- /STOP +
- /PAUSE +
- /CONTINUE +
- /WAIT:n #
- /TEMPO:percentage #
- /TRANSPOSE:semitone #
- /REPEAT:count #
- /MIDIFMT:midiformat *
- midiformat: GEN, BAS, EXT
-
- (+ = for CMF and MIDI files, # = for CMF files only,
- * = for MIDI files only)
-
-
- IMPORTANT :USE EITHER SBMIDI OR SBFMDRV DRIVER ONLY (NOT BOTH).
-
-
- 7. UPGRADING OF SOUND BLASTER PRO MIXER FOR DOS
-
- There are two changes in this version compared to the earlier
- version:
-
- a. The < Stereo on/off > option is now removed. This function is
- controlled directly by the software drivers.
-
- b. A new feature has been added:
-
- <Hidden mode on/off> : Default is ON.
-
- With the Hidden mode set to ON, the user can control all the
- volumes from the keyboard in the background - without popping
- up to mixer screen.
-
- To control the volume, use the key combinations of
-
- CTRL+ALT+u - for volume increase
- and CTRL+ALT+d - for volume decrease
-
- To toggle on/off the sound output use the key combinations of
-
- CTRL+ALT+q
-
- To select the channel in-order to control its volume, use the
- key combinations of
-
- CTRL+ALT+m - for Master
- CTRL+ALT+l - for Line
- CTRL+ALT+f - for FM
- CTRL+ALT+c - for CD
- CTRL+ALT+v - for VOC
- CTRL+ALT+i - for Mic
-
-
- The pop up mode is still working in the same way as before.
-
-
- 9. TROUBLE SHOOTING FOR INSTALLING WINDOWS 3.1 DRIVERS
-
- A program "WINSETUP.EXE" was included to install the Windows 3.1
- drivers for Sound Blaster. This program can be found in your
- Sound Blaster directory. However, if you prefer to install these
- drivers manually in Windows, please refer to the User Reference
- Manual. If somehow you are having problems installing the
- drivers, here are some points to check before you call Technical
- Support.
-
- a. If you installed Windows 3.1 using the "Express Installation,"
- Windows scanned your hard disk for programs to be installed.
- As a result, older versions of the Jukebox were installed if
- they were on your hard disk at the time of installation.
- Please remove these icons. To do this, click on the icon once
- to select it, then press the delete key. Windows will ask you
- for confirmation. Repeat for each icon.
-
- b. Open the Driver applet in Control panel. You should at least
- have the following driver names in the Installed Drivers list:
-
- Creative Sound Blaster *** Auxiliary Audio
- Creative Sound Blaster *** MIDI Synthesizer
- Creative Sound Blaster *** Wave and MIDI
- MIDI Mapper
- Timer
- [MCI] CD Audio ;this is only for owners of CD-ROM drives
- [MCI] MIDI Sequencer
- [MCI] Sound
-
- where *** correspond to the type of card you are having.
-
- If one or more of these drivers do not exist, you must install
- the driver(s) using the Driver applet in Control Panel (See
- the Windows manual for more details).
-
- c. Check your SYSTEM.INI by choosing RUN from the File menu of the
- Program Manager, and typing SYSEDIT in the command line box.
- Examine the [drivers] and [sndblst.drv] sections. They should
- look something like this:
-
- [drivers]
- Timer=timer.drv
- Midimapper=midimap.drv
- Aux=sbpaux.drv
- MIDI=sbp2fm.drv
- Wave=sbpsnd.drv
- MIDI1=sbpsnd.drv
-
- [sndblst.drv]
- port=220
- int=7
- dmachannel=1
-
- d. If Windows refuses to install a device driver or you get the
- error message "Device not found" when playing a Wave or MIDI
- file or a CD, be sure you have the following settings in the
- [mci] section of SYSTEM.INI
-
- [mci]
- WaveAudio=mciwave.drv
- Sequencer=mciseq.drv
- CDAudio=mcicda.drv ;this is only for owners of CD-ROM drives
-
- If one or more of these do not exist, you must install the
- driver(s) using the Driver applet in Control Panel (See the
- Windows manual for instructions). Do not type in the entries
- into the SYSTEM.INI because the files have to be installed into
- your SYSTEM directory by Windows.
-
-
- ********* End of README *********
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