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Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card
User's Guide
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Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game: Sound Blaster Live!
Value Sound Card User's Guide
Overview • Music
Options • Digital Audio Options
Most MS-DOS–based games that provide sound have some procedure
for audio setup. These procedures generally present you with a list of popular audio cards
or audio devices from which to choose.
The methods used by games to present audio options can vary greatly.
Some may present a single choice that corresponds to a particular audio device, that is,
Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Roland Sound Canvas, and so on. Others will provide an
option for music and digital audio separately; for example, General MIDI music with Sound
Blaster digital audio. In such a case, there are often two separate menus to configure.
Some games allow you to set the MIDI port address and IRQ for music
and sound. Make sure that these settings correspond to the values displayed by SBECFG.EXE or the Resources tabbed page of the Creative SB Live! SB16
Emulation Properties dialog box.
There are games that offer MPU-401/Roland (General MIDI or
MT-32/LAPC-1) as an option. Often these games allow you to set the MIDI port address. Make
sure that they match the MIDI address in the Resources list on Resources tabbed page of
the Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation Properties dialog box. The same values can be found
under "MPU-401 (General MIDI, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1) Emulation", displayed by
SBECFG.EXE in MS-DOS mode. Remember to enable the MT-32 MIDI patch with the SBEMIXER program if you select Roland MT-32 or LAPC- 1
for music.
Most MS-DOS games offer a menu choice for sound when they start up.
If you have a choice between General MIDI and MT-32, always choose General MIDI, since it
will provide you with the best sound quality. If you need to use MT-32, you must first
switch from the General MIDI instrument set (the default) to the MT-32 instrument set
using SBEMIXER. Be sure to switch back to the General MIDI set when you are finished using
the MT-32 instrument set.
SB Live! supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster
16, and Adlib digital audio emulation. If an application provides all these as options,
specify the choices in this order:
- Sound Blaster 16
- Sound Blaster Pro
- Sound Blaster
- Adlib
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