HOW
DO I CHANGE THE CREATIVE 'START WINDOWS' WAV FILE?
HOW DO I DISABLE THE SBLIVE! TASKBAR 'LIVE!NEWS'
UPDATE?
HOW
DO I DISABLE THE CREATIVE SB16 EMULATION?
HOW
MUCH SYSTEM MEMORY CAN BE USED FOR LOADING SOUNDFONTS IN THE SBLIVE!?
MY
SOUNDCARD SOUNDS NOISY IS THERE ANYWAY TO REDUCE
THE HISS?
I LOADED A DRUMKIT SOUNDFONT IN CAKEWALK BUT I CANT ACCESS IT ON CHANNEL 10?
HOW DO I CONVERT CD AUDIO TO WAV OR MP3?
SoundFonts
are wav file samples that have been converted by a
SoundFont editor like Vienna into midi controllable instruments which
can be loaded into a soundcard like the SBLive and triggered by a sequencer.
A standard General Midi SoundFont can contain up to 127 instruments
and one drum kit.
HOW DO I CHANGE THE CREATIVE 'START WINDOWS'
WAV FILE?
Open Control Panel/Sounds. Scroll down to and click on the 'Start Windows'
wav icon. Click the 'Browse' button and select a new wav file. Click
'Apply'.
HOW
DO I DISABLE THE SBLIVE! TASKBAR 'LIVE!NEWS' UPDATE?
Open Creative Launcher, Select the Live!Task tab and click on the
arrow next to the 'light bulb' icon and uncheck the 'Monitor For Live!News
Update'.
HOW
DO I DISABLE THE CREATIVE SB16 EMULATION?
Open
Control Panel/System/Device Manager/Creative Miscellaneous Drivers/Creative
SB16 Emulation.
Click on 'properties' and check 'disable in this hardware
profile'.
HOW
MUCH SYSTEM MEMORY CAN BE USED FOR LOADING SOUNDFONTS IN THE SBLIVE?
You can use half of your system memory for loading SoundFonts (128mb
of System RAM = 64mb of SoundFont Cache etc.) although you can only
play a maximum of 32mb of the SoundFonts simultaneously due to limitations
with the card.
MY
SOUNDCARD SOUNDS NOISY IS THERE ANYWAY TO REDUCE
THE HISS?
This is normally caused by all the volume levels in the mixer set to full. Open the mixer and set your 'Wave/Direct Sound' and 'Midi' volumes to full and mute or reduce all other volume levels you don't use.
I
LOADED A DRUMKIT SOUNDFONT IN CAKEWALK BUT I CANT ACCESS IT ON CHANNEL
10?
The
drums are probably not assigned to the 'Percussion Pool' in Vienna.
If they are not assigned to the 'Percussion Pool' then you wont be able
to
access them on channel 10. Open the SoundFont you are having trouble
with in Vienna and copy the instrument from the 'Melodic Pool', then
paste the preset to the 'Percussion Pool'. You don't have to have them
assigned to channel 10 to be able to use them, you can use the kits
on another channel instead. I find with drum kit SoundFonts it is best
to assign them to the 'Melodic Pool' and the 'Percussion Pool' this
gives you the option to use the kits on any channel you like.
HOW
DO I CONVERT CD AUDIO TO WAV OR MP3?
There are various free utilities which can perform these tasks with varying results. The Cdfs.Vxd driver (38kb) is a replacement for the default Windows driver which converts CD audio tracks to Wav files. This driver is especially useful for opening audio sample CD's directly as wav files in a audio editor. Download the zip and read the 'Install' text.
Another great free program is CDex which converts CD audio to various formats including Wav and MP3. NoNags also has loads of free programs which can convert, edit and play Wav and MP3 files (MP3 is converted by using a codec 'COder DECoder').
Read the 'Help Files' section on converting 'Wav to MP3' for a full tutorial and check out the 'Software Links' section for other program links on this subject .
