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Subject:Windows Mixer Tip Posted by: plasmavideo Date:8/16/2004 9:07:43 AM One of my annoyances with the sound mixer in Windows is that you have to keep popping back and forth between the "Play" mixer and the "Record" controls mixer, which can get to be a pain if you are constantly messing with both the play and record settings. I solved the dilemma kind of by accident. I added a shortcut to the mixer in my startup folder so that it would run everytime windows started. I set the properties in the shortcut to load and run minimized so that it would always be available on the taskbar. Just for grins, I added a "/r" command to the target properties so that the Target commnd line looked like this: %SystemRoot%\system32\sndvol32.exe /r Lo and behold, when I clicked on the shortcut, the mixer opened in the record controls mode, rather than in play mode! So, I added a second shortcut in the startup menu with the "/r" removed. Now, when Windows starts, it opens up 2 copies of the mixer on the taskbar - one in the Play controls mode, and one in the Record controls mode. A quick click on the appropriate taskbar icon now gets me quickly to the control I need.
Subject:RE: Windows Mixer Tip Reply by: kbruff Date:8/16/2004 5:45:40 PM Nice Tip I have to try this on my system. And this reminds me of one of many Sony Sound Forge Annoyances, why cant I use the app, for other operations even though it is in record mode? For exampe in Wavelab 5.0 I can record (using all sorts of parameters) and proceed to open files for further editing. I really think the record process should be able to run along side other Sound Forge processes. -- Kevin ***
Subject:RE: Windows Mixer Tip Reply by: Chienworks Date:8/17/2004 4:45:17 AM Kevin, this is why i still have SoundForge 6 installed. I'll often use 6 for recording while using 7 for editing simultaneously.
Subject:RE: Windows Mixer Tip Reply by: Rednroll Date:8/17/2004 6:22:54 AM Nice tip, I've run into this problem a few times on my laptop. Now can anyone figure out how to get the Windows mixer to save settings? I painstakenly once went through adjusting my Window mixer to assure I was at 0 dB inputs and outputs for some spectral measurements I took. In my next project I had to adjust my output levels and had no way of saving my previous settings so I could recall them later.
Subject:RE: Windows Mixer Tip Reply by: MarkWWW Date:8/17/2004 12:16:50 PM > Now can anyone figure out how to get the Windows mixer to save settings? You need a nice little free app called QuickMix which just does exactly that - saves and restores the settings of the Windows mixer. You can download QuickMix from http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix Mark
Subject:RE: Windows Mixer Tip Reply by: plasmavideo Date:8/17/2004 12:44:17 PM Thanks Mark! I'll check that out. plas

Subject:Windows Mixer Tip

Posted by: plasmavideo

Date:8/16/2004 9:07:43 AM

One of my annoyances with the sound mixer in Windows is that you have to keep popping back and forth between the "Play" mixer and the "Record" controls mixer, which can get to be a pain if you are constantly messing with both the play and record settings.

I solved the dilemma kind of by accident. I added a shortcut to the mixer in my startup folder so that it would run everytime windows started. I set the properties in the shortcut to load and run minimized so that it would always be available on the taskbar.

Just for grins, I added a "/r" command to the target properties so that the Target commnd line looked like this:

%SystemRoot%\system32\sndvol32.exe /r

Lo and behold, when I clicked on the shortcut, the mixer opened in the record controls mode, rather than in play mode! So, I added a second shortcut in the startup menu with the "/r" removed. Now, when Windows starts, it opens up 2 copies of the mixer on the taskbar - one in the Play controls mode, and one in the Record controls mode. A quick click on the appropriate taskbar icon now gets me quickly to the control I need.