MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide

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MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide

OverviewSBECFG.EXESBEMIXER.EXESBESET.EXESBEGO.EXE

Overview

The SB Live! Value card includes a few MS-DOS utilities. These utilities require the SB Live! DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be loaded.

SBECFG.EXE

Use the SBECFG.EXE utility to obtain the hardware settings and the status of the SB Live! Value card.Typing SBECFG.EXE at the command prompt displays the following hardware settings:

PCI Hardware Settings: Port, IRQ

Sound Blaster Emulation: Port, IRQ, DMA

MPU-401 Emulation (GM, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1) Emulation: Port

Adlib Emulation: Port

The emulation settings appear only if they are enabled.

SBEMIXER.EXE

Use SBEMIXER.EXE to change the volume levels of the MPU-401 instrument set used on the SB 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 settings for SBEMIXER.EXE are independent of the Creative Mixer settings in Windows 98 Second Edition.

To set SBEMIXER values in the command line:

At the DOS prompt, type the SBEMIXER command in a single line. Its syntax is:

SBEMIXER [/S:x] [/W:x] [/C:x] [/M:x] [/?]

where square brackets [ ] denote optional parameters, and:

This

Parameter Specifies

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