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Aptiva - 2159 How to play WAV, MIDI and CD audio (Mwave)
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To Open "Audiostation": Click on "Start", go to "Programs", "Aptiva Entertainment", "Audiostation", and then click on "Audiostation".
Figure 1. Audiostation with All Modules Open
This screenshot shows the Audiostation starting from the top to the bottom with the PowerBar, the Audio Mixer, the CD Player, Wav Player and MIDI Player modules. The PowerBar will always be at the top but the other modules may be in different orders or not present at all.
If all modules are not present, click on the appropriate icon on the PowerBar to open the missing module. Starting from the IBM Trademark on the PowerBar and moving right across the PowerBar, the icons are for the Wave Module, the CD Player Module, the MIDI Module, and the Mixer Module. Click on the appropriate icon to open the module. If an error occurs, you will need to reload the Audiostation Application.
In order to do the testing; the Audiostation's audio mixer should be set to the appropriate settings. The settings are shown on the Audiostation displayed above. If the display on the audio mixer says Reverb, Pitch, and Bass on the left side, the audio mixer is set to display the Effects display. Click on the "ALL OFF" button and then click on the "Effects" button to show the display above.
The audio mixer's settings should be:
1. Volumes all raised to the top except the Microphone. If they are not then put the cursor on the slider, hold the left mouse button down and push the control up.
2. The Microphone should be muted by the mute button. No other mutes should be set. If this is not the case then click on the button that is muted to un-mute it or click on the Mic to mute it.
3. The Source should be set to Mix/CD with a red led on the button.
CD Player
To test the CD Player, an audio CD such as a music CD is needed.
1. Insert the music CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. The CD player should now look like the CD player above. The left side of the CD player will either say a title or Untitled and the right side of the CD player will say Trk 1. Look above.
3. Single left mouse click on the right sided triangle to start playing the CD.
4. The music should be playing over the speakers with the time counting on the CD player.
5. To stop the CD player, single left mouse click on the square next to the triangle.
MIDI Player
To test the MIDI player:
1. Click on the folder icon on the lower right of the MIDI Player to bring up the MIDI Playlist shown below in figure 2.
Figure 2. MIDI Playlist
2. This screen shot of the MIDI Playlist shows the canyon.mid in the name column selected and already in the Playlist column.
3. Click on the first file in the name column. This will highlight the file.
4. Click on the first clipboard icon on the left of the Playlist column to add the file.
5. When the file is in the Playlist column, click on the "OK" button on the lower right of the MIDI Playlist to close the Playlist and return to Audiostation.
6. The file should now show up in the MIDI Player. In the Audiostation example shown above, the file loaded is the Canyon.mid. The file selected should show as well. If the file is not named there, there is no file selected. Repeat the above procedures to select a file.
7. Click on the single right triangle on the right side of the square icon to play the MIDI file. The MIDI player's LEDs should flash and the MIDI file should be heard.
8. To stop the MIDI player, click on the square.
Wave Player
To play a wave file through the Wav Player:
1. Click on the folder icon in the lower right of the Wave Player module. This brings up the Wave Player Playlist. This Playlist is in the same format as the MIDI Playlist shown above. Refer to the Playlist show above. The first column is the name column and the third column is the Playlist column.
2. Click on the first file in the first column or name column. This highlights the file in the name column.
3. Click on the first clipboard icon in the Playlist column. This puts the file in the Playlist column.
4. Click on the "OK" button on the lower right bottom of the Playlist screen. This will return you to the Audiostation.
5. The file should be listed in the MIDI player like the MIDI player module shown in the Audiostation screenshot above. In this example above, the Anarchy.wav file is loaded.
6. Click on the single right triangle to the right side of the square icon to play the wave file. The wave file should play and the LEDs should flash on the wave player.
7. Click the square on the Wave player to stop playing the wave file.
8. To close the Audiostation, click on the X in the upper right of the Audiostation Window. This will close the program and may bring up messages says that the Playlists have changed. Single left mouse click on the "No" button to close the messages.
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Date Created |
17-06-97 | |
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16-12-98 | |
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16-12-99 | |
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IBM Aptiva | |
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Aptiva | |
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2159 | |
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S64; S66; S74; S7H; S78; 13R; 14R; 15R; 16R; 19R; 20R | |
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