Recording and Content 

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If you are a musician with semi professional requirements, you may want to upgrade your 

Authoring

Sound Blaster Live! card with either the Optical Digital I/O card (plus Digital I/O Module), 

or the Live! Drive IR.

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For either options, you will be given:

  A set of SPDIF (RCA) and Optical input/output jacks for recording to and from external 

digital devices;

  MIDI input/output connectors for connection to MIDI devices;

  A Digital DIN connector for connection to digital speakers such as the 

FourPointSurround or DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital Speaker Systems;

  A second analog Line In allows you to connect to an additional input device (e.g. a CD 

player) for recording.

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The Live! Drive IR fits into the standard 5   drive bay of your computer and thus allows you 

easy access to these connectors from its front panel. The Headphones and Microphone inputs 

utilise    jacks for high quality connectivity.

Positioning Your 

If you are using four speakers, place them so that they 

Sub 

form the corners of a square with you exactly in the 

woofer

Speakers

centre (as in Figure 1 5) and that they are angled 

Computer 

monitor

toward you. Make sure the computer monitor is not 

blocking the path of your front speakers. If you have a 

Front left 

Front right 

centre speaker, place it on top of your monitor, also 

speaker

speaker

angled toward you. You may want to adjust the relative 

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positions of the speakers until you get the audio 

experience you like best. If you have a subwoofer, 

Rear left 

Rear right 

place the unit in a corner of the room for the best bass 

speaker

speaker

experience. 

Figure 1 5:    Recommended speaker positions 

for the 4 speaker configuration.

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