[ddots-l] Re: sound card assignment for Jaws
- From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:20:40 -0700
Hello,
This information is at the following page;
http://www.dancingdots.com/main/ctfaq.htm#JFW
. Q: Is it possible to run JFW through my soundcard on my computer while
running my music through my external sound card?
A: You should use your low-end sound card which may be built onto the PC's
mother board, to produce JAWS speech. You can use your Delta card or other
high-end
soundcard to play audio from Cakewalk SONAR. You can tell Windows to use the
low-end card as the preferred audio device and you can make sure that Cakewalk
does not know about the low-end card but only about the Delta card. From now on
in this little tutorial, "Delta card" will stand for any high-end soundcard.
Use the following strategy under Windows XP. If you're using a different
version of Windows, this strategy should work but the exact steps may be
somewhat
different.
Telling Windows about your Low-end Card
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. Press the Windows Key to go to the Start Menu.
. Press S until you hear Settings.
. Press c for Control Panel or just press ENTER.
. Press the letter S until you hear Sounds and Multimedia.
. Press ENTER.
. Press CONTROL+TAB until you reach the Audio tab.
. Make sure that your low-end soundcard is selected as the preferred play back
and recording device.
. You probably also want to choose your low-end card for MIDI play back too, at
least for now.
. Tab to "Use only preferred devices" and be sure that it is checked.
. Tab to the Apply button and press ENTER.
. Tab to the OK button and press ENTER. At this point, Windows is set properly.
. Reboot your PC.
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Setting Cakewalk SONAR to Know about Your High-end Card
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. Run SONAR.
. Press ALT+O, then the letter o to set Audio options. You'll probably come
right up into the "General Tab" dialog but, if not, press CONTROL+TAB until
you're there.
. Make sure your Delta card drivers are selected for both the Playback Timing
Master and the Record Timing Master.
. Press CONTROL+TAB to move to the Drivers page. Again, make sure that your
Delta drivers are checked for input and output. In this dialog you will use
the space bar to check only those drivers which you want SONAR to use. You
should check all Delta drivers shown for input and output and make sure that
the drivers listed for your low-end soundcard are not checked.
. If you see an option to allow you to use the ASIO drivers under the Advanced
tab, you should definitely check it.
. Find the OK button in any of the Audio pages and press the space bar to
select it. SONAR may tell you that the changes you have made will not take
effect
until the next time you start SONAR. Press ENTER and close SONAR with ALT+F4.
Re-boot your system. Restart SONAR and try playing the SONAR Audio and MIDI
DEMO2.cwb file (see below).
. Note: with certain soundcards, you will need to unload and restart JAWS on
booting up your system. Otherwise, you may hear JAWS speech coming through
your high-end soundcard despite setting up your Windows audio options properly
in the Windows Control Panel as shown above. This un-loading and reloading
may even be necessary on systems that have had the jaws.ini file revised to
list the low-end soundcard as synthesizer 1.
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Do you have some speakers connected to your Delta card? If not, you can try
using a pair of headphones. You must have some way of listening to the audio
signal from the Delta output. If you do, try opening the SONAR Audio and MIDI
DEMO2.cwb file which you will find in the SONAR Sample Content folder. All
of the instruments in this project file are recorded on audio tracks which you
should hear through your Delta card once you have followed the instructions
above. Only Track 4 is assigned to MIDI percussion which you should hear
through the low-end soundcard's MIDI output unless your low-end card has no MIDI
output facility. If you don't hear that wood block ad other percussion on Track
4, you'll need to set your MIDI options with ALT+O and the letter M. But
don't worry about that until you've corrected your audio set up.
BTW, you will find excellent information on setting up your MIDI and audio
hardware in Lessons 46-54 of the main CakeTalking tutorial. From your Windows
desktop (WINDOWS_KEY+M) type the letter C until you hear CakeTalking... Press
ENTER. Type T until you hear "Tutorials" and press ENTER. Type C until you
hear: "CakeTalking Tutorial For Sonar 4.doc". Review the Table of Contents for
the Lesson you wish to read. Ideally, you should eventually read this tutorial
document in its entirety.
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