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- Table of Contents
- -----------------
-
- I. Introduction
- II. Diskette contents
- III. Installing the drivers
- IV. What to do if the drivers don't install correctly
- V. If you upgraded from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1
- VI. Important notes
-
-
- I. Introduction
- ---------------
-
- This diskette contains drivers and programs for Windows 3.1 users who
- have a Sound Blaster Pro or Sound Blaster Pro Basic.
-
- If you obtained the drivers and programs mentioned in this file as a ZIP
- file from a bulletin board, please unzip the contents into a diskette
- labeled
-
- Sound Blaster Pro drivers for Windows v3.1
- Copyright (c) 1992 Creative Labs, Inc.
-
- before following the installation instructions.
-
-
- II. Diskette contents
- ---------------------
-
- Filename Size Date Description
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- MIDIMAP.CFG 40962 4-23-92 Windows MIDI Map configuration
- MMCBOX.EXE 22016 3-28-92 MultiMedia Chatterbox (.WAV player)
- MMJBOX.EXE 22016 4-10-92 MultiMedia Jukebox (.MID player)
- OEMSETUP.INF 472 5-15-92 Windows setup file
- README.1ST 13463 5-15-92 This document
- SBP2FM.DRV 14192 4-28-92 Sound Blaster Pro FM (OPL3)
- SBPAUX.DRV 4304 4-15-92 Sound Blaster Pro Auxiliary Audio Driver
- SBPMIXER.EXE 29024 4-10-92 Sound Blaster Pro Mixer Utility
- SBPSND.DRV 15552 5-15-92 Sound Blaster Pro Wave & MIDI Driver
- VSBPD.386 5640 5-15-92 Windows Virtual Device Driver
-
-
- III. Installing the drivers
- ---------------------------
-
- 1. Start Windows v3.1.
-
- 2. Open the Control Panel and select the Drivers icon.
-
- 3. You should have the following driver names in the Installed Drivers
- list:
-
- MIDI Mapper
- Timer
- [MCI] CD Audio ;this is only for owners of CD-ROM drives
- [MCI] MIDI Sequencer
- [MCI] Sound
-
- If you have other drivers installed, please remove them with the
- REMOVE button and restart Windows before continuing. If any of these
- drivers are not listed, please add them before continuing. (See your
- Windows manual for details on adding these drivers.) Make sure you
- restart Windows after making changes to the driver list.
-
- 4. Click on the ADD button.
-
- 5. Select Unlisted or Updated driver and click on OK.
-
- 6. Insert the floppy containing the drivers.
-
- 7. Type in the drive letter of the floppy drive containing the driver disk.
-
- 8. Select Sound Blaster Pro Auxiliary Audio and click on OK.
-
- 9. Windows will prompt you for the Sound Blaster I/O address. The default
- I/O address is 220H. If you have changed the jumper on your card to
- 240H, then select 240H.
-
- 10. Windows will ask if you want to restart your system. Click on
- DON'T RESTART, then repeat steps 4, 5, 6, and 7.
-
- WARNING! - Steps 11 and 12 will OVERWRITE your existing MIDIMAP.CFG
- configuration. If you want to keep your existing configuration,
- click on CANCEL and make a copy of MIDIMAP.CFG before continuing
- the installation process.
-
- 11. Select Sound Blaster Pro MIDI Synthesizer and click on OK.
-
- 12. Windows will ask if you want to use the current MIDIMAP.CFG
- or install the new MIDIMAP.CFG - Select NEW and continue on.
-
- 13. Windows will prompt you for the Sound Blaster I/O address.
- Repeat the instructions in step 9.
-
- 14. Windows will ask if you want to restart your system. Click on
- DO NOT RESTART, then repeat steps 4, 5, 6, and 7.
-
- 15. Select Sound Blaster Pro Wave and MIDI and click on OK.
-
- 16. Windows will prompt you for the Sound Blaster I/O address, Interrupt, and
- DMA channel. Choose the settings your card is set to and continue on.
-
- 17. Windows will ask if you want to restart your system. Click on
- RESTART. Windows will then restart.
-
- 18. Two additional Windows applications are provided. They are MMJBOX.EXE and
- MMCBOX.EXE, please copy them into your Windows directory.
-
- IV. What to do if the drivers don't install correctly
- -----------------------------------------------------
-
- If you are having problems installing the drivers, here are some things to
- check before you call Technical Support. Also, be sure to read the
- "Important Notes" section below.
-
- ** 1. 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 Chatterbox, Jukebox, and Mixer 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.
-
- 2. Check the size and date of all the driver files in the Windows SYSTEM
- directory against the listing in the section "Diskette Contents". Make
- sure that the correct drivers have been copied to your hard disk.
-
- 3. Open the Driver applet in Control panel. You should at least have the
- following driver names in the Installed Drivers list:
-
- Creative Sound Blaster Pro Auxiliary Audio
- Creative Sound Blaster Pro MIDI Synthesizer
- Creative Sound Blaster Pro Wave and MIDI
- MIDI Mapper
- Timer
- [MCI] CD Audio ;this is only for owners of CD-ROM drives
- [MCI] MIDI Sequencer
- [MCI] Sound
-
- 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).
-
- 4. 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
-
- 5. 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.
-
-
- V. If you upgraded from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- If you upgraded an existing copy of Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.0 with
- Multimedia Extensions to Windows 3.1, here are some special notes to
- consider.
-
- 1. If you have a line which reads "device=vsbd.386" in the [386Enh] section
- of SYSTEM.INI, please delete it. This is an old driver which has been
- replaced by VSBPD.386. The new driver will not work correctly until this
- line is removed.
-
- 2. Delete the file SBPMIXER.CPL in the Windows SYSTEM directory. It is no
- longer being supported. The new SBPMIXER.EXE is now used instead and is
- loaded automatically when you install the Sound Blaster drivers.
-
- 3. After installing Windows 3.1, verify that the latest SBPMIXER.EXE,
- MMCBOX.EXE, MMJBOX.EXE, SBP2FM.DRV, SBPAUX.DRV and SBPSND.DRV have been
- copied to your hard disk. Check the size and date of these files against
- the listing in the section "Diskette Contents". You can delete any older
- versions that you find in your system.
-
-
- VI. Important notes
- -------------------
- * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- * I M P O R T A N T *
- * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- 1. The drivers found in the file CREATE.EXE on Microsoft's BBS and in the
- Microsoft Forum on CompuServe are not the latest drivers for Windows 3.1
- and may not work properly. Please do not use them.
-
- 2. The drivers that are included with the Windows 3.1 Resource Kit are not
- the lastest drivers and may not work properly. Please do not use them.
-
- 3. We are including drivers that make use of Device Virtualization. These
- drivers will allow DOS Apps that use the Sound Blaster to run in Enhanced
- Mode.
-
- Please make sure that a line reading "device=vsbpd.386" exists under the
- [386Enh] section in your SYSTEM.INI. If you have a line which reads
- "device=vsbd.386", please delete it. Also, make sure the file VSBPD.386
- is in your Windows SYSTEM directory. If it is not, copy it from the
- Drivers Disk.
-
- 4. The Windows 3.1 drivers can now be used in both Windows 3.0 with
- Multimedia extensions as well as Windows 3.1. They will check the
- Windows version and use the correct Sound Blaster section name to access
- the settings in the SYSTEM.INI.
-
- 5. A MIDI-MAP has been created to make use of the SBP2FM.DRV, please use the
- MIDI MAPPER icon under Control Panel to customize it to your requirements.
-
- Under Windows 3.1, MIDI channel 10 is referenced as the drum channel.
- If you are having problems with the FM synth not sounding "right", try
- modifying the configuration with the MIDI Mapper.
-
- The following is a list of the existing MIDI Map configurations and how
- they are mapped:
-
- Input Output Output Input Output Output
- Map Name Channel Channel Port Map Name Channel Channel Port
- -------- ------- ------- ------ -------- ------- ------- ------
- All FM 1 1 FM All MIDI 1 1 MIDI
- 2 2 FM 2 2 MIDI
- 3 3 FM 3 3 MIDI
- 4 4 FM 4 4 MIDI
- 5 5 FM 5 5 MIDI
- 6 6 FM 6 6 MIDI
- 7 7 FM 7 7 MIDI
- 8 8 FM 8 8 MIDI
- 9 9 FM 9 9 MIDI
- 10 10 FM 10 10 MIDI
- 11 11 FM 11 11 MIDI
- 12 12 FM 12 12 MIDI
- 13 13 FM 13 13 MIDI
- 14 14 FM 14 14 MIDI
- 15 15 FM 15 15 MIDI
- 16 16 FM 16 16 MIDI
-
- Ext FM 1 1 FM Ext MIDI 1 1 MIDI
- 2 2 FM 2 2 MIDI
- 3 3 FM 3 3 MIDI
- 4 4 FM 4 4 MIDI
- 5 5 FM 5 5 MIDI
- 6 6 FM 6 6 MIDI
- 7 7 FM 7 7 MIDI
- 8 8 FM 8 8 MIDI
- 9 9 FM 9 9 MIDI
- 10 10 FM 10 10 MIDI
-
- Basic FM 13 13 FM
- 14 14 FM
- 15 15 FM
- 16 10 FM
-
- NOTE: Channel 16 in the Basic FM mapping has been routed to channel 10 for
- proper access to the drum channel based on Microsoft standards for
- MIDI authoring.
-
- The software and programs on this disk are copyrighted by Creative Labs,Inc.
- and may not be distributed without the express written permission of
- Creative Labs, Inc.
-
-