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- MCS MusicRack ReadMe File
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- LINECONFIG:
-
- Additional information for users who have attached the output of their
- CD-ROM drive to the Auxiliary port of their sound card.
-
- If your sound board has a CD audio line-in port, yet you have
- found it necessary to attach the audio output of the CD-ROM drive to
- the auxiliary line-in port, you will find it impossible to control
- the CD Volume in the Enhanced CD player. This section will detail
- how to make MCS MusicRack best utilize your sound board's auxliliary
- line-in to control the volume of your CD player.
-
- The "Volume" section of the MCS MusicRack User's Manual describes a
- procedure which assigns the auxiliary port of the sound card to MCS
- MusicRack's logical CD volume control. After this operation the CD
- Player's volume controls will adjust the volume of the sound card's
- auxiliary port. Because the Mixing Console component relies, not
- on MCS MusicRack's logical associations, but instead on the patch
- names as reported by the sound card's mixer driver, you must still
- adjust the "Aux" sliders to change the CD's volume when using the
- Mixing Console component. Alternatively, you may also change the
- default patch names that the mixer driver will use to correspond
- to the changes made in the MCSINIT.INI file. We think that this
- is a very reasonable solution that most users would prefer.
-
- The following instructions are meant for those who have the problem
- described above.
-
- Step 1. Install MCS MusicRack if has not been previously installed.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Step 2. Switch MCS MusicRack's logical auxiliary and CD associations
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- a) Use Windows' notepad (or any other editor which will write
- straight ASCII files) and load "MCSINIT.INI" from the directory
- containing Windows.
-
- b) Locate the [LINECONFIG] section and examine the entries
- labled "CD_AUDIO" and "AUXILIARY", then swap the line
- numbers associated with both devices.
-
- Example: If your sound board is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum,
- then you would make AUXILIARY=LINEIN03 and CD_AUDIO=LINEIN02 as
- demonstrated below.
-
- [LINECONFIG]
- PRODUCT=Media Vision Pro Audio/CDPC
- MASTER=LINEOUT00
- RECORDIN=LINEOUT01
- CD_AUDIO=LINEIN03 <---------- CD_AUDIO=LINEIN02
- DIGITAL_RECORDER=LINEIN05 |
- MIDI=LINEIN00 |
- AUXILIARY=LINEIN02 <---------- AUXILIARY=LINEIN03
- MICROPHONE=LINEIN04
-
-
-
-
- Step 3. Changing the default mixer driver patch names.
- -------------------------------------------------------
- a) Search for the [drivers] section in the file "SYSTEM.INI" located
- in the directory where Windows has been installed. Locate the
- "mixer" entry in the [drivers] section and note the filename
- that has been assigned to the "mixer" entry.
-
- b) Use an editor capable of writing straight ASCII to edit "WIN.INI"
- located in the directory where Windows was installed. Find the
- section name corresponding to the filename found in step 3a.
-
- c) After finding the appropriate section name, search the section's
- "LineIn" entries for the patch names of "AUX" and "CD".
- (The patch names appear in the first field immediately after
- the '=' on each line.) Next, swap the numbers associated with
- these patches.
-
- Example: If your sound board is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum,
- then you would replace the '3' in the line that contains
- "LineIn3=AUX" to '4' and you would replace the '4' in the line
- that contains "LineIn4=CD" to '3' as show below.
-
- ------------------ Change this '3' to '4'
- |
- [mvmixer.drv] |
- LineIn1=SYNTH | MUS] PLAY L= 0% R= 0% @=0000
- LineIn2=MIXER | MIX] PLAY L= 91% R= 91% @=0000
- LineIn3=AUX <--- AUX| PLAY L= 77% R= 77% @=0000
- LineIn4=CD <--- CDA| PLAY L= 46% R= 46% @=0000
- LineIn5=MIC | MIC| PLAY L= 60% R= 60% @=0000
- LineIn6=WAVE | WAV] PLAY L= 0% R= 0% @=0000
- LineIn7=SPKR | SPK] RECORD L= 13% R= 23% @=0000
- LineOut1=MASTER \ AMP| PLAY L= 56% R= 56% @=0000
- StereoEnhance=ON \
- Loudness=OFF \
- Bass= 66 \---------------- Change this '4' to '3'
- Treble= 75
- SaveSettingsOnWindowsExit=YES
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