Using Sounblaster Live! in MOS
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Hi all

    I just got a cool new SB Live! Value card. How do I set it up to work with MOS? Is the 3d sound supported. Any and all help is welcome!

    magnetic

    plz be verbose and specific
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  • »16.03.04 - 02:59
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  • Butterfly
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    Leon
    Posts: 93 from 2003/11/28
    Hi magnetic, that's the same as mine. You need to download the latest beta of AHI. Then you simply select EMUK101 (or whatever) from the Audio Options. I don't know what your speaker setup is, you need to play with the settings, sorry I can't be more specific but hope this helps.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the latest AHI MOS beat 5.11. I have the eum10k modes in my system audio prefs but cant seem to get sound..

    What are your setttings?

    What did you install from the AHI package in AMbient?

    I have 2 AHI icons and settings in my System prefs is this normal?


    1 says AHI AHI
    the other one says AHI AUDIO

    Please help.

    magnetic
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  • »16.03.04 - 08:41
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    buh
    Posts: 68 from 2004/2/2
    I don't use them.
    If you copy the emu10k files in the correct directory you can config your sblive directly in the ahi panel in ambient.

    I suppose you can only add the emu10k files but yesterdaty I copy all the ahi-morphos compressed archive and I have no problem.

    I don't know how the sblive is better than internal audio chipset but it has a good out line and you can hear music by your headphones with a "strong" volume.

    Bye.
  • »16.03.04 - 09:55
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 118 from 2003/5/2
    From: United States
    @magnetic

    As long as you have AHI 5.11 and "emu10kx.audio" in your mossys/devs/ahi
    drawer it will work fine (but you should only have one "AHI" prefs in your
    system prefs, you might have to remove and reinstall AHI 5.11 by hand).

    After you have that sorted out, make sure to go to "AHI" system prefs,
    and set "emu10kx" as the driver for *each unit*, if you want to use
    the SB for all audio output.

    Good luck, dude! :-P
  • »16.03.04 - 10:07
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Thanks for your response guys. Can you please be more specific about how to "install" AHI 5.11 by hand? I think I somehow messed up my MOS AHI setup...

    tia
    magnetic
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 118 from 2003/5/2
    From: United States
    @magnetic

    OK, first, go to your

    sys:morphos/prefs/mprefs drawer,

    You'll notice that these files correspond to the different
    settings options in your main "System" prefs.

    Get rid of any extra "audio" or "ahi" pref files; the only one
    you need for AHI settings is the "audio.mprefs" file (41216 bytes).

    That should clear up the extra/unneeded garbage in your main "System"
    prefs.

    Now, here's a brief description on installing AHI by hand
    (I do expect you to fill in the blanks:-P)

    Assuming we're starting from a freshly unarchived AHI 5.11 package in
    RAM: (or wherever)

    From the "L" drawer, file "ahi-handler" goes in sys:morphos/l

    From the "C" drawer, "addaudiomodes" in sys:morphos/c

    From the "Devs" drawer, file "ahi.device" goes in sys:morphos/devs

    the contents of "dosdrivers" go in sys:morphos/devs/dosrivers, "AHI"
    in sys:morphos/devs/AHI......etc. Copy over any 'older' files with the
    newer ones found in the AHI package.

    Specifically, you need "EMU10KX" file in sys:morphos/devs/audiomodes,
    and "emu10kx.audio" in sys:morphos/devs/audio for your SB card.

    You can safely ignore the "prefs" drawer, since we already handled that.

    Hopefully all should work now.
  • »17.03.04 - 09:28
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  • Just looking around
    Posts: 12 from 2003/8/7
    Hello,

    which mixer is usable for the
    Soundblaster-Live (Emu10k)?

    I heard, the Amithlon-Mixer (>= v2.x) is usable, but
    don't work at my Peg1+SB-Live!

    Bye MaSch
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Allright!

    Thank you so much for your detailed response. I really appreciate this. It works now! I would like to know what sound mixer works too. I am excited. Even though peg onboard sound is good its nice to off load sound off the psu. Now I'll get a sweet 4.1 speaker setup. If anyone has recommendations It would be nice.

    magnetic
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
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    Thanks for the clear instructions. I'm now using my "old"
    SoundBlaster Live!

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    A working audio mixer would be very nice though :D
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Donar
    Posts: 142 from 2003/12/27
    From: Germany
    Ok i had to try it out myself.
    Got down in the Basement and searched my "old" parts.
    The Soundblaster works fine. Could it be that the
    sound is much better than from the integrated Ac97
    Codec?? I also noticed that scrolling in Voyager while
    listening to AmiNetRadior makes no more annoying
    noise. Ok this issue should be fixed in the new
    Voyager version anyway.
  • »24.03.04 - 19:37
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