Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Question From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!iserver.spacebbs.com!spacebbs!kirk.jensen Distribution: world Message-ID: <6.12606.1188.0NAE8EBE@spacebbs.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 10:22:00 -0800 Organization: Space BBS - 15 nodes - v.32bis - (415-323-4193) Lines: 62 SA>From smay01@bigcat.missouri.edu Wed Mar 23 07:47:18 1994 SA>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:47:26 -0600 (CST) SA>From: "Scott A. May" SA>Subject: Re: Question SA>To: Kirk Jensen SA>Cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L SA> SA>On Tue, 22 Mar 1994, Kirk Jensen wrote: SA> SA>> S > I've owed a Panasonic CR-562-B for quite some time now, without any sound SA>> S >card.I just purchased an old SB, will there be any problems? SA>> SA>> Yes. If you stick to just products from Creative Labs which allow the drive SA>> to be directly connected to the interface on the sound card, you really need SA>> a SB Pro (MPC1) or SB 16 (MPC2) with a CD-ROM drive, not a regular Sound SA>> Blaster. Your drive already meets MPC2 specs, by the way. SA> SA>Hmm.... I have several computers with different CD-ROM and sound card SA>configurations and I've -never- had a problem using a standard 8-bit SA>Sound Blaster with any CD drive. I assume the drive described above has SA>its own interface card, so the chap doesn't really need a 16-bit sound SA>card (although once you've heard a SB-16, you'll never go back). In other SA>words, his setup should work just fine. You can get it to work, but most people would find it very inconvenient or expensive (for an external mixer). The Sound Blaster Pro is an 8-bit mono card with an on-board mixer. It works just fine, although 8-bit mono sound is nothing to write home about. The regular Sound Blaster doesn't have a mixer, and that is not very convenient unless you have an external mixer. More on this below. SA>> S > Does anyone know what the audio ou connector at the back of the rom SA>drive does? It came with a funny little cable, but I have never used it and SA>have no idea what it does. SA>> SA>> It connects to the audio input connector on the face of the SB Pro or 16. SA>> That allows you to mix the sound from the drive and the sound card together SA>> play them both through your speakers or headphones attached to the back of SA>> the sound card. SA> SA>The RCA line-out jacks on the back of the CD-ROM (card) can go directly SA>into a stereo component or amplified speakers. You CAN route it through a SA>sound card (including the 8-bit SB), but I see no reason for this if you SA>just want to listen to music or the audio portion of a CD-ROM programs. SA>Sound mixing is fine for recording (and eating up chunks of your hard SA>drive) but not for everyday use. Many CD-ROM products have both Red Book audio and encoded audio on the same disc. They may switch back and forth, or do the introduction in Red Book and then shift over to encoded. Unless you have a mixer, you have to guess which input to try to listen to. In any case, it is going to be a real pain switching back and forth on your stereo. If you mix the signals, you can pick up both kinds from the mini-stereo output plug at the back of the sound card. There is no requirement for any hard disk space to do it this way. --- þ KingQWK 1.05 # 141 þ CD-ROM Access (415) 941-2400 FAX: (415) 941-4900