SB AWE32 - how to get AUX1 & AUX2 to work??

[PsychoCrazy]

I just got an SB AWE32 Value soundcard in the mail yesterday. The model number is CT4330 and is not on the CL website. I am trying to hook up two CD-ROMs to the thing. It has two CD inputs--one black and one white (shorter and smaller than the black one). It also has an AUX1 and an AUX2 input (both white). If I hook both CD-ROMs to both CD inputs, then neither works, but if I only connect one, that one works fine.

I figure I have to connect one CD-ROM to one of the CD inputs and the other CD-ROM to one of the AUX inputs. The only problem is that if I hook a CD-ROM to the AUX1 input, I get no sound out of the left channel when playing a CD. If I hook it up to the AUX2 input, I get no sound at all.

In volume control, under properties, ther is no listing for either AUX1 or AUX2. My old soundcard had controls for AUX, Modem, Video. But this one doesn't. I have downloaded the latest drivers for the AWE32 from the CL website, but they were dated 11/13/98.

If anybody has a newer driver or a registry hack to enable the AUX inputs in volume control, please let me know. Also if anybody has any other suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[PsychoCrazy]

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[Erasmus-X]

In most cases, the black and white MPC headers on sound cards are both attached to the same input, meaning that you can use only one or the other. This was common on a lot of late-generation ISA sound cards in order to provide backward compatibility with older CD-ROM drives (older ones used that smaller white connector). Auxiliary MPC headers on sound cards are typically mono, because they are intended to be used with things like TADs.

The AWE32 was a powerful sound card for its time, but unfortunately it's quite an antiquated card and the newer Win98 drivers for it only provide basic .WAV playback/recording and FM-based MIDI (Creative has pretty much stopped supporting this product). So, you're kind of screwed in a way. I had an AWE64 Gold before I decided to replace it with a Live!. One of the main reasons I replaced it was because Creative didn't seem to want to go anywhere with driver releases (which is too bad, because it was a pricey sound card with the added memory). Furthermore, I had plans of upgrading to Win2k at the time and Creative only ended up releasing basic WDM drivers for the AWE32/64 under that OS. That pretty much meant no software for manipulating Soundfonts and a measly 2MB waveset.