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Soundblaster Pro 2.0 volume

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First post, by JayAlien

Posted on 2022-12-20, 02:24

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Hi, I have a 386 with a SB Pro 2.0 CT1600.
The volume on the card is very low when I boot the PC, however I can get to a normal volume by firing up \sbpro\sbp-mix.exe and setting all the sliders to max. However these settings are lost on reboot.

Is there a way to make these volume adjustments less volatile, or perhaps a way to set the volume during boot?
Thanks
J

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Reply 1 of 3, by wbahnassi

Posted on 2022-12-20, 11:46

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Yes. If you install the SBPro disks, it will register also an SBP-MIX.EXE entry in AUTOEXEC.BAT to init the mixer to good values. You can also add it yourself. To figure out the switches I think you can run SBP-MIX /?
It will list all options and switches, including the "silent mode" switch (IIRC it was /S) which will set mixer values on the command line without the UI. Just gather all the settings and build the line to put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2022-12-20, 15:43

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As the above post stated, a mixer executable should be registered in AUTOEXEC.BAT after installing the software that came with SBPro2 floppy disks. In my case it was SBP-SET.EXE and that one was entirely done with command line switches.

An example:

1C:\SBPRO\SBP-SET.EXE /M:10 /VOC:15 /FM:15 /CD:0 /X:0 /LINE:0 /ANFI:OFF /DNFI:ON /Q

Should be put after setting the BLASTER and SOUND environment variables. The /Q command line switch is for silent or quiet mode.

Reply 3 of 3, by JayAlien

Posted on 2022-12-20, 20:32

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That did it, thanks both. Not sure how I installed the software but skipped this step.
I re-ran the installation.
It's all working great now!

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