IBM ThinkPad 380 or 380D User's Guide

Using Audio Features

Note:
When installing an operating system, install the audio support software to use the audio feature.

To install the Audio support software:
"Installing Software".

Note:
The microphone-in jack and headphone-out jack can be used concurrently, at the same time.

Note:
Do not enter suspend mode when using the audio functions.

The computer provides the Multimedia audio feature, which is based on the sound chip installed in your computer. The audio feature gives you high performance for audio functions with the following features:

• A 1/8-inch (3.5-mm) diameter external stereo line-in or monaural microphone-in jack.

• A 1/8-inch (3.5-mm) diameter stereo headphone-out jack.

• Stereo PCM file, WAV file, and recording playback in 8-bit or 16-bit format.

• Various sampling rates from 8 KHz to 44 KHz for the WAV file.

• MIDI and MIDI file playback through an FM synthesizer.

• Capacity to record from various sound sources, such as an integrated microphone, an external microphone, and an audio device attached to a line-in jack or an integrated CD-ROM drive.

• DOS game compatibility. Chose Sound Blaster Pro **  for the audio adapter in the sound setup of the game.

• A MIDI serial port connector available when the computer is attached to the ThinkPad 380 or 385 port replicator. The computer can be connected to an external MIDI device through a MIDI port, an MPU401 interface. The MIDI port capability is disabled as a default, so you need to enable the functions in the ThinkPad Features program.

Use the audio feature according to your operating system.