From: menna@spike.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Randall Menna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS+ setup w/Windows
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:04:02 GMT
Reply-To: menna@hal.com
Organization: HaL Computer Systems
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In article <128960001@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, goo@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Michael Goo) writes:
|> 
|> Greetings,
|> 
|> I just got Media Vision's PAS+ installed on my 486/33 clone (It came with MV's
|> Fusion CD CD-ROM/sound/software bundle).  After a bit of fiddling around,
|> everything is working as-advertised; however, I am experiencing one minor
|> annoyance while using the PAS+ with Windows 3.1:
|> 
|>   - I've figured out how to set the volume and mix levels in DOS by using
|>     the pas.exe utility.  A couple of pas commands in my autoexec.bat file
|>     sets up my preferences whenever I boot the machine.  No problem.
|> 
|>     In Windows, however, the volume and mix levels seem to get 'randomized'
|>     whenever I start Windows.  Sometimes the vol/mix is too loud, sometimes
|>     too soft.  Sure, I can use the Pocket Mixer app to the the levels to my
|>     liking and then save a .mix file, but there doesn't seem to be any way
|>     to get my preferences set automatically whenever Windows comes up.  I
|>     thought a macro might work, but putting the macro in the startup group
|>     just invoked the macro recorder, where I still had to manually invoke the
|>     macro from there.  This method also assumes that the Pocket Mixer is 
|>     already running.  No help there.
|> 
|>     NEW IDEAS!  (I just thought of these...really!)
|> 
|>       I could put some pas commands into my startup group.
|> 
|>       I could 'associate' .mix with the pocket mixer and
|>       then put my default.mix file into my startup group.
|> 
|> Any other ideas/comments on this???
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> 
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I don't have a PAS but I do have an SBpro that I run under windows 3.1.  Windows
3.1 has some neat features for supporting mulitmedia, one of which is exactly
what you want.  In the control panel there is a "driver" icon which allows
you to among other things install drivers for sound boards so that they become
the windows "multimedia sound device" (or something like that I can't remember
exactly what it is called right now).  You should either have a driver to do
this or you should be able to find one on the net.  Among the drivers I found
for the SBpro was a "mixer" that installed into the control panel.  It not
only allows me to adjust the volume while windows is running, but also to
set default levels that are saved across windows applications.

I realize that this whole explination may sound somewhat fuzzy, but I'm not
in front of my pc right now and I'm trying to remember exactly what I did
several months ago.

-randy
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