MCS MusicRack ReadMe File
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LINECONFIG:

Additional information for users who have attached the output of their
CD-ROM drive to the Auxiliary port of their sound card.

If your sound board has a CD audio line-in port, yet you have
found it necessary to attach the audio output of the CD-ROM drive to
the auxiliary line-in port, you will find it impossible to control
the CD Volume in the Enhanced CD player.  This section will detail
how to make MCS Stereo best utilize your sound board's auxliliary
line-in to control the volume of your CD player.

The "Volume" section on page 3-23 of the MCS Stereo User's Manual
describes a procedure which assigns the auxiliary port of the sound
card to MCS Stereo's logical CD volume control.  After this operation
the Enhanced CD Player's volume controls will adjust the volume of the
sound card's auxiliary port as will the buttons labeled "CD" on the Remote
Control Mixer.  Because both the Standard Environment Mixer and the
Enhanced Mixer rely, not on MCS Stereo's logical associations, but instead
on the patch names as reported by the sound card's mixer driver, the
user must still adjust the "Aux" sliders to change the CD's volume
when using either the Standard Environment Mixer or the Enhanced Mixer.
Alternatively, the user may also change the default patch names that 
the mixer driver will use to correspond to the changes made in 
the MCSINIT.INI file.  We think that this is a very reasonable
solution that most users would prefer.   

The following instructions are meant for those who have the problem
described above. These instructions are to supercede those given on 
page 3-23 of the manual.

   Step 1.  Install MCS Stereo if has not been previously installed.
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   Step 2.  Switch MCS Stereo's logical auxiliary and CD associations
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     a) Use Windows' notepad (or any other editor which will write
        straight ASCII files) and load "MCSINIT.INI" from the directory
        containing Windows.

     b) Locate the  [LINECONFIG] section and examine the entries 
        labled "CD_AUDIO" and "AUXILIARY", then swap the line
        numbers associated with both devices.

        Example: If your sound board is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum,
        then you would make AUXILIARY=LINEIN03 and CD_AUDIO=LINEIN02 as
        demonstrated below.
  
             [LINECONFIG]
             PRODUCT=Media Vision Pro Audio/CDPC
             MASTER=LINEOUT00
             RECORDIN=LINEOUT01                    
             CD_AUDIO=LINEIN03            <----------  CD_AUDIO=LINEIN02
             DIGITAL_RECORDER=LINEIN05              |
             MIDI=LINEIN00                          |
             AUXILIARY=LINEIN02           <----------  AUXILIARY=LINEIN03
             MICROPHONE=LINEIN04
                                                
             


    Step 3.  Changing the default mixer driver patch names.
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     a) Search for the [drivers] section in the file  "SYSTEM.INI" located
        in the directory where Windows has been installed.  Locate the
        "mixer" entry in the [drivers] section and note the filename
        that has been assigned to the "mixer" entry.

     b)  Use an editor capable of writing straight ASCII to edit "WIN.INI"
         located in the directory where Windows was installed.  Find the
         section name corresponding to the filename found in step 3a.

     c)  After finding the appropriate section name, search the section's
         "LineIn" entries for the patch names of "AUX" and "CD". 
         (The patch names appear in the first field immediately after
         the '=' on each line.)  Next, swap the numbers associated with
         these patches.

        Example: If your sound board is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum,
        then you would replace the '3' in the line that contains 
        "LineIn3=AUX" to  '4' and you would replace the '4' in the line
        that contains "LineIn4=CD" to '3' as show below.
                                          
                            ------------------ Change this '3' to '4'
                            |
             [mvmixer.drv]  |
             LineIn1=SYNTH  |   MUS]  PLAY     L=  0% R=  0%  @=0000
             LineIn2=MIXER  |   MIX]  PLAY     L= 91% R= 91%  @=0000
             LineIn3=AUX <---   AUX|  PLAY     L= 77% R= 77%  @=0000 
             LineIn4=CD  <---   CDA|  PLAY     L= 46% R= 46%  @=0000   
             LineIn5=MIC    |   MIC|  PLAY     L= 60% R= 60%  @=0000
             LineIn6=WAVE   |   WAV]  PLAY     L=  0% R=  0%  @=0000  
             LineIn7=SPKR   |   SPK]  RECORD   L= 13% R= 23%  @=0000
             LineOut1=MASTER \  AMP|  PLAY     L= 56% R= 56%  @=0000
             StereoEnhance=ON \
             Loudness=OFF      \
             Bass= 66           \---------------- Change this '4' to '3'
             Treble= 75
             SaveSettingsOnWindowsExit=YES

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