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... ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.