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SMWTONE
"SoundMan Wave Tone Controls for Windows"
Version 1.0 - Unregistered
April 5, 1996
(c)1996 by Kevin Krausnick
PURPOSE:
This program was written to pay tribute to a truly remarkable
sound card - SoundMan Wave. Logitech is no longer manufacturing
this board, although thousands are being used. Unfortunately,
the provided Windows 3.1x software lacks a few basic features...
hence the writing of this program. SMWTONE provides the missing
Bass and Treble controls, as well as a Master Volume control and
convenient Mute option. While some might consider Bass and
Treble controls for a computer sound card to be rather
insignificant, anyone who has listened to the board's amp will
tell you that it's capabilities are really quite impressive when
fully exploited - especially if its output is fed through high
quality or self-amplified speakers.
USAGE:
SMWTONE is fairly straightforward in use - the Master Volume
control is adjustable from 0% to 100% (100% = highest volume).
The Bass and Treble controls can be adjusted + or - 7 steps, with
0 being the center detent, or "flat" setting. These figures do
not represent actual decibel ranges, but are simply values which
lend themselves to controlling SoundMan Wave's mixer registers
directly. The Mute option may be invoked to temporarily suspend
sound output. The Master Volume control can also be adjusted
while Mute is in effect. You might be wondering what purpose is
served by the small arrow button beside the Mute check box -
clicking this button will toggle between "full" or "compact"
views. The "compact" view can be used to reduce the amount of
screen real estate occupied by the program once the desired Bass
and Treble levels have been set.
OPTIONS:
Select the "Always Visible" option from the Options menu if
constant access to tone controls is desired. By default, any
changes to the mixer settings are automatically restored the next
time SMWTONE is launched. This option can be disabled from the
Options menu if need be.
Create an icon for SMWTONE in the Startup group to conveniently
launch the application every time Windows starts. Although
primarily designed for Windows 3.1 or 3.11, SMWTONE may also be
run under Windows 95 (provided no other native sound drivers are
active).
TECHNICAL:
This section can normally be skipped, unless you are experiencing
problems or just want more information on how to best configure
SoundMan Wave for use with SMWTONE.
Included with your SoundMan Wave were drivers for DOS and for
Windows. While it is not essential that you install the Windows
drivers or Music Rack software to use SMWTONE, the DOS driver
(SMWSET.SYS) will need to be loaded in CONFIG.SYS. This driver
initializes the board when your computer is booted. Provided the
software was installed in the default subdirectory, the entry in
CONFIG.SYS should read as follows...
DEVICE=C:\SOUNDMAN\SMWSET.SYS
This driver unloads itself from memory once the board has been
initialized, so it doesn't matter whether DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH is
used in the example above.
Since SMWTONE is designed to be compact, it does not include
options for adjusting volume levels for the individual mixer
inputs (MIDI, Line In, CD Audio or Wave Audio) - please use Music
Rack to make adjustments to these settings if the need arises.
If the Windows drivers have not been installed, you can make
these adjustments by running SETUP.EXE from the C:\SOUNDMAN
subdirectory in DOS, or by editing the C:\SOUNDMAN\SOUNDMAN.INI
file directly. Reboot the computer or type "SETUP RESET" and
press ENTER from the C:\SOUNDMAN subdirectory to activate your
changes.
When the Windows drivers for SoundMan Wave are installed, the
"load=" line in WIN.INI is modified to load a driver which sets
mixer levels when Windows is launched. The line might look as
follows...
load=c:\soundman\mixeron.exe clock.exe
The mixer values used by "mixeron.exe" might be different from
those used by SMWTONE, resulting in a rise or drop in sound
volume when SMWTONE is launched - to avoid this, edit WIN.INI and
remove the "c:\soundman\mixeron.exe" portion of the "load=" line.
Following the above example, the line would read as follows after
editing this line...
load=clock.exe
Save your changes and restart Windows for these changes to take
effect.
REQUIREMENTS:
SMWTONE requires VBRUN300.DLL; the Visual Basic run-time module.
VBRUN300.DLL is freely distributable and can be found on many
ShareWare BBSs and FTP archives.
SHAREWARE: If you use SMWTONE, please consider registering
for $5 (U.S.). In return you will receive the
latest registered version of the program, along
with several other ShareWare utilities, including
the following...
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ACLW Area Code Locator for Windows. Displays City, State
and Time Zone given the Area Code, or the reverse.
ZCLW Zip Code Locator for Windows - Displays the City and
State given the Zip Code, or the reverse.
CRD2TXT Converts Windows' Card Files to ASCII or delimited
text. Registered users receive utility which does the
reverse.
PREFIX Given an Area Code and telephone Prefix, displays City
Prefix zone (currently limited to California).
CASE Converts ASCII text files to all UPPERCASE, lowercase,
Capitalizes the first word in a sentence, Capitalizes
Every Word, and performs CR<->CR/LF<->LF conversions.
SNOW TSR Screen Saver for DOS. Displays random bit patterns
on-screen, creating the type of effect you'd get if
your television set was not properly tuned.
KONVERT Rearranges and filters comma-delimited text files for
exporting data files to other database and spreadsheet
applications.
BASE Programmer's tool for quickly converting numbers
between Decimal, Hex and Binary formats.
ASCCHART Pop-up ASCII chart with respective codes (Dec/Hex
selectable).
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If you have an Internet address and prefer the software be
emailed to you, please provide your Internet email address in
your correspondence.
Questions, comments, suggestions and bug reports are always
welcomed. Please direct them to:
Kevin Krausnick Internet Email:
35560 Haley St. #203 kpk@netcom.com
Newark, CA. 94560-1074
U.S.A.