MS-DOS Mode 

The SB Live! card includes a few MS DOS utilities. These utilities require the SB Live! DOS 

driver SBEINIT.COM to be loaded.

Utilities

SBEC.G.EXE

Use the SBECFG.EXE utility to obtain the hardware settings and the status of the SB Live! 

card.Typing 

SBECFG.EXE

 at the command prompt displays the following hardware settings:

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PCI Hardware Settings: Port, IRQ

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Sound Blaster Emulation: Port, IRQ, DMA

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

K

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 95/98. 

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

/S:

x

Synth volume. 

x

 can be a value from the range 0 to 127.

/W:

x

Wave volume. 

x

 can be a value from the range 0 to 127.

/C:

x

CD audio volume. 

x

 can be a value from the range 0 to 127.

/M:

x

Synth MT 32/LAPC 1 mode. For 

x,

 0 is Off, 1 is On.

/?

View a short description of the parameters.

B 8 SB Emulation in MS DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME