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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.
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