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June 2000
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Page 5: Safety Information
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Page 6: Table Of Contents
Introduction........................1 System Requirements ....................1 Your Live! Drive ......................2 Switching Audio Input Sources................3 Connecting Headphones..................4 Connecting Microphone ..................4 Adjusting Headphones Volume and Microphone Gain ........5 Installing Hardware......................6 Step 1: Prepare the System for Hardware Installation........6 Step 2: Insert the Live! Drive into the System............ -
Page 7: System Requirements
Connect Live! Drive to your Sound Blaster Live! audio card, and you will have the best audio solution available for your music, digital audio content creation, games, movies, CDs, MP3 songs and other Internet entertainment. The Live! Drive has a front panel, which allows you to connect commonly used audio sources to external devices easily. -
Page 8: Your Live! Drive
The front panel of your Live! Drive has these jacks, connectors and controls: (These two sets of connectors and jacks are available only on Live! Drive II.) Optical SPDIF In/Out connectors RCA Auxiliary In jacks Connects to consumer equipment Connects to digital audio devices... - Page 9 To switch the audio input source: 1. Click Start -> Programs -> Creative -> Sound Blaster Live! -> Surround Mixer. 2. On the Mixer deck (lower portion of Surround Mixer), click any of the audio input source icon, and then select either the I S In or Line In 2/Microphone 2 icon.
- Page 10 Condenser microphone, which is usually fitted with a 3.5mm stereo plug, such as the Telex microphone bundled with Creative audio products. By default, Live! Drive is set for use with a condenser microphone. To use a dynamic microphone, you must place the shunt (jumper cap) onto Jumper C85 on the Live! Drive. See Figure 4 on page 8 for the location of Jumper C85 on the Live! Drive.
- Page 11 Clockwise to increase the headphones volume or microphone gain. To adjust the headphones volume: 1. Click Start -> Programs -> Creative -> Sound Blaster Live! -> Surround Mixer. 2. On the Mixer deck (lower portion of Surround Mixer), if the button below the VOL slider is not highlighted, click it to unmute the output sound.
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Page 12: Step 1: Prepare The System For Hardware Installation
To install your Live! Drive, you need to perform the following: Step 1: Prepare the System for Hardware Installation Step 2: Insert the Live! Drive into the System Step 3: Connect to the SB Live! Card Step 4: (Optional) Install the Digital DIN Metal Bracket (To connect to FPS2000 or DTT2500 speakers) Step 5: (Optional) Connect to the Digital I/O Card (Only if you have one) Step 6: Complete the Installation... - Page 13 1. Pass the following cable ends from the inside of the casing through the vacant 5¼" drive bay, and then leave the cables dangling halfway on the outside of the casing: Smaller end of the power splitter cable Dark grey flat cable end with a black circle near the connector (Optional) Any end of the light grey flat cable (if you want to connect to a Digital I/O card from an earlier purchase) (Optional) Cable end of the Digital DIN metal bracket (if you want to connect to...
- Page 14 2. Connect the cables to the Live! Drive as shown in Figure 4. To system power supply unit Power splitter cable Live! Drive Digital DIN Orange-colored wire metal bracket Digital DIN cable Connector for future upgrades Black circle on the underside of the cable Red-colored wire Red-colored wire...
- Page 15 Connect the dark grey flat cable to Sound Blaster Live!’s AUD_EXT header. If you have difficulty connecting to the AUD_EXT header: 1. Remove the Sound Blaster Live! card from its PCI slot. 2. Connect the dark grey flat cable to Sound Blaster Live!’s AUD_EXT header. 3.
- Page 16 1. Remove the metal plate from a vacant ISA or PCI expansion slot. 2. Align the Digital DIN metal bracket with the vacant expansion slot opening. 3. Secure the metal bracket to the system casing with a screw. Connect the light grey flat cable to the Digital I/O card’s AUD_EXT header. If you have difficulty connecting to the AUD_EXT header: 1.
- Page 17 SoundWorks, you can experience crystal clear gaming sequences or music from the Digital DIN connection. If you are using Creative SoftPC-DVD to watch DVD movies on your PC, connect from the SPDIF Output of your Live! Drive to an external Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder such as the DeskTop Theater speaker systems.
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Page 18: Playing Games And Music
SPDIF (RCA) (e.g., DAT) AUX input from MiniDisc Watching DVD Movies an analog source (e.g., CD player with Creative SoftPC-DVD and or tape deck) DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker System Live! Drive DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker System Dolby Digital (AC-3) - Page 19 If you have an Optical Digital I/O card (or Digital I/O card) from an earlier purchase, you can connect it to your Live! Drive. The figure below shows an alternative method for audio recording and content authoring using the Optical Digital I/O card. Recording and Content Authoring with Optical Digital I/O card and Digital I/O Module...
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Page 20: Troubleshooting
1. Insert the installation disc into your CD-ROM drive. The disc supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically.If not, see “Troubleshooting” on page 15. 2. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation. After you install the software for the Live! Drive, you will be able to enable the SPDIF Bypass feature for your digital inputs and outputs, and mute your speakers when you plug your headphones into Live! Drive. - Page 21 Two RCA jacks for coaxial SPDIF input and output One Headphone output with auto detection via ¼" stereo jack with volume control One shared line-level analog Line/Microphone input via ¼" stereo jack. Shared input selectable via switch with gain (or level) control Two 5-pin standard DIN female connector for MIDI input and output Two RCA jacks for left and right channel stereo Auxiliary inputs Two optical connectors for Optical SPDIF input and output...
- Page 22 No sound from the headphones. Cause The headphones may not be connected or configured properly. Solution Check the following: The headphones are connected to the Headphones jack. Under the Speaker view in the Main deck of Surround Mixer, make sure that the Speaker selected is “Headphones”.
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