
  SBMIX - SBPro mixer control
  Copyright (c) 1997-2005 BTTR Software
  [Under `MODIFIED' BSD LICENSE]


                        T A B L E  O F  C O N T E N T S
  

  1  INTRODUCTION
  2  LICENSE & DISCLAIMER
  3  SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  4  INSTALLATION
  5  USAGE
  6  TECHNICAL SUPPORT & UPDATES
  7  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


  1                         I N T R O D U C T I O N
  

  SBMIX is a tiny program to display and change SoundBlaster Pro (and
  compatibles) mixer settings, i.e., Master, Wave, FM, CD, Line and Mic
  volumes, directly from DOS command line. It may be required with some cards
  to hear anything under plain DOS, as some cards are initialized with zero
  volume.


  2                  L I C E N S E  &  D I S C L A I M E R
  

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms of the `MODIFIED' BSD LICENSE.

  See `legal.txt' for details.


  3                   S Y S T E M  R E Q U I R E M E N T S
  

  (*) Intel i8086 microprocessor (or compatibles)

  (*) Microsoft MS-DOS 2.0 (or compatibles)

  (*) SoundBlaster Pro sound card (or compatibles) with `BLASTER' environment
      variable correctly set


  4                         I N S T A L L A T I O N
  

  (*) Decompress the archive with, e.g., Info-ZIP UnZip to an empty directory.

  (*) For your convenience, copy `SBMIX.EXE' to a directory on your search
      path.


  5                                U S A G E
  

  The syntax for calling `SBMIX.EXE' is as follows:

    SBMIX [<master>] [/W<wave>] [/F<fm>] [/C<cd>] [/L<line>] [/X<mic>]

  to change or display current mixer settings, or

    SBMIX [/Help|/?]

  to display the help screen. The parameters are:

    <master> = <both> | <left>,<right> = master volume,     0..15
    <wave>   = <both> | <left>,<right> = wave (DSP) volume, 0..15
    <fm>     = <both> | <left>,<right> = FM synth volume,   0..15
    <cd>     = <both> | <left>,<right> = CD input volume,   0..15
    <line>   = <both> | <left>,<right> = Line input volume, 0..15
    <mic>    = <mono>                  = Mic input volume,  0..7

  For stereo input sources and Master volume, you can give either separate
  values for the left and right channel (with no space after the comma), or a
  single value for both channels.

  Calling the program with no arguments causes it to just display the current
  mixer settings, the contents of `BLASTER' environment variable, and sound
  card's DSP (Digital Signal Processor) version.

  Note: `BLASTER' environment variable must be set correctly for SBMIX (as
  well as for most programs that use the sound card) to operate correctly.
  Please refer to your sound card manual for details.

  Examples of correct invocations of SBMIX:

    SBMIX 3,5

  (set Master volume to 3 for the left channel and to 5 for the right one);

    SBMIX 9 /W15,5 /F15,5 /C5,15 /L0 /X0

  (set Master volume to 9 for both channels, `unbalance' Wave, FM and CD
  sources, mute Line and Mic sources);

    SBMIX

  (simply display current settings).


  6            T E C H N I C A L  S U P P O R T  &  U P D A T E S
  

  Please visit `http://www.bttr-software.de/' for any updates or further help.


  7                A D D I T I O N A L  I N F O R M A T I O N
  

  SBMIX was created using Borland Turbo Pascal 7.01 and Borland MAKE 3.6, as
  well as information from internet resources, particularly Craig Jackson's
  and Andre Baresel's Sound Blaster Programming Information v0.90 and code
  samples.

  This product uses the aPACK executable compressor,
  Copyright (C) 1997-2000 by Joergen Ibsen, All Rights Reserved.
  For more information, please visit: http://www.ibsensoftware.com/

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