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Overview

What is Creative EnsembleAV?

Creative EnsembleRemote

The Interface

Knowing the Interface

Working with the EnsembleRemote

Making a Player Active

Playing Tracks

Adjusting the Volume

Activating a Playlist Dialog

Invoking a Player

Loading All EnsembleAV Players

Closing All EnsembleAV Players

Stacking Your Players

Changing Your Color Scheme

Moving the EnsembleRemote

Moving the EnsembleAV Players

Minimizing the EnsembleRemote

Quitting the EnsembleRemote

Keyboard Shortcuts


What is Creative EnsembleAV?

Creative EnsembleAV is a multi-player control interface that allows you to control your multimedia devices, like your CD-ROM drives and overlay device, independently or concurrently. It consists of the EnsembleRemote and one or more EnsembleAV players; examples are the EnsembleCD, EnsembleWave and EnsembleMIDI. With the EnsembleRemote, Creative EnsembleAV not only allows you to control different devices from one control interface, thus saving you lots of screen space, it also allows you to invoke any of the EnsembleAV players if you require more direct control over a device.


Creative EnsembleRemote

The Creative EnsembleRemote [image] is the heart of Creative EnsembleAV. Working like a home remote control, it lets you control all the EnsembleAV players from a single control interface. In addition, it has some advanced features which include:

•	ability to launch any of the available EnsembleAV players for more direct control over a device,

•	a "touch-sensitive" display,

•	multiple display forms,

•	color scheme selection, and

•	fast track selection.


Knowing the Interface

When you invoke the EnsembleRemote, the EnsembleRemote interface appears as shown below:

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Power Off Button

Menu Button

Minimize Button

"Touch Sensitive" Display

Active Player Selector/Display

Invoke Player Button

Playlist Button

Playback Control Buttons

Fast Track Selector

Volume Control Buttons

Two-digit Mode Selector


Power Off Button

The Power Off button [image] allows you to quit the EnsembleRemote.

Related Topics:

Quitting the EnsembleRemote


Menu Button

The Menu button [image] displays a menu that allows you to select some system and miscellaneous functions.

Related Topics:

Stacking Your Players

Closing All EnsembleAV Players

Loading All EnsembleAV Players

Changing Your Color Scheme


Minimize Button

The Minimize Button [image] minimizes the EnsembleRemote to an icon.

Related Topics:

Minimizing the EnsembleRemote


"Touch Sensitive" Display

By clicking the "Touch Sensitive" Display, you get to switch between the following three displays.

Display 1. Current system time

Display 2. Title of the current playlist

Display 3. Title of the current track


Active Player Selector/Display

The Active Player Selector/Display [image] allows you to select the active player. It displays the icon of the active player. Some examples of the icons of the players are shown below.

 CD Player

 MIDI Player

Related Topics:

Making a Player Active


Invoke Player Button

The Invoke Player button [image] allows you to invoke a player using the EnsembleRemote.

Related Topics:

Invoking a Player


Playlist Button

The Playlist Button [image] is for activating the active player's Playlist dialog used for compiling a playlist.

Related Topics:

Activating a Playlist Dialog


Playback Control Buttons

The Playback Control buttons allow you to perform the playback operations on the active player. These buttons are described below:

 Stop button

 Play button

 Pause button

 Record button

 Skip-reverse button

 Rewind button

 Fast-forward button

 Skip-forward button

 Load/Eject button

Related Topics:

Playing Tracks


Fast Track Selector

The Fast Track Selector  consists of a group of buttons for quickly selecting a track to play.

Related Topics:

Playing Tracks


Volume Control Buttons

The Volume Control buttons decrease and increase the volume of a playing track.

Related Topics:

Adjusting the Volume


Two-digit Mode Selector

The Two-digit Mode Selector [image] allows you to toggle between single-digit and double-digit track number input when using the Fast Track Selector to select the track to play.

Related Topics:

Playing Tracks


Making a Player Active

Before you can control a player using the EnsembleRemote, you need to make it the active player.

To make a player active:

1.	Choose the Active Player Selector/Display [image].

The player selection buttons appear.

Note: The number of selectable buttons depends on the number of players you have.

2.	Choose the button of the player you want to make active.

The player becomes active and the Active Player Selector/Display shows the icon of the active player.

Note: You can use hot keys to make your player active.  To do this using hot keys, simply press <C> to display the player selection buttons.  Choose the active player using the arrow keys and press <Spacebar> to confirm your selection.


Playing Tracks

You can play tracks on the active player using the Playback Control buttons on the EnsembleRemote. The active player plays tracks from the playlist.

If you wish to, you can also select a track and play it using the Fast Track Selector [image] buttons. The following steps show how you can use these buttons to select a track.

When the Two-digit Mode is off, to play a track whose number is less than eleven:

1.	Choose a button from the Fast Track Selector that correspond to the track you want to select.  If you want to select track 10, choose button 0.

The track starts playing.

To play the track whose number is more than ten:

1.	Highlight the Two-digit Mode Selector [image] using the mouse or by pressing <T>.

2.	Choose two buttons on the Fast Track Selector that correspond to the track you want to select.

The track starts playing.

Note: If you choose a track number that does not exist, the last track in the playlist will be selected.


Adjusting the Volume

You can adjust the volume of the active player to a level you like using the Volume Control buttons [image].

To adjust the volume:

1. 	Click and hold down the left mouse button on the volume button until the desired level is reached. The "+" button is used for increasing the volume while the "-" button is used for  decreasing the volume.

Note: You can also use <D> to decrease the volume and <U> to increase the volume.


Activating a Playlist Dialog

To obtain the active player's Playlist dialog box:

1. 	Choose the Playlist button [image] using the mouse or by pressing <L>.

Note: For more information on how to compile a playlist, please refer to each individual player's help on compiling a playlist.


Invoking a Player

You can invoke any player to perform more specific operations such as playing tracks in random order and previewing the first few seconds of each track in the playlist.  When you invoke a player, you make it active on the EnsembleRemote, and the Active Player Selector/Display shows the icon of the invoked player.

To invoke a player:

1.	Choose the Invoke Player button [image].

The player selection buttons appear.

Note: The number of selectable buttons depends on the number of players you have.

2.	Choose the button of the player to invoke.

The player appears.

Note: You can also use hot keys to invoke a player. To do this, press <H> to display the player selection buttons. Choose the player to invoke using the arrow keys and press <Spacebar> to confirm you selection. By double clicking the Active Player Selector/Display, the current active player can also be invoked.


Loading All EnsembleAV Players

You can invoke your EnsembleAV players all at one time.

To invoked all players:

1. 	Choose the Menu button [image].

The drop-down menu appears.

2.	Select the Load All option.

All the available players will be shown.


Closing All EnsembleAV Players

You can close your EnsembleAV players all at one time.

To close all players:

1. 	Choose the Menu button [image].

The drop-down menu appears.

2.	Select the Close All option.

All the available players will be closed.


Stacking Your Players

After invoking a few players, you may find that these players will be scattered on your screen. To clean-up your Windows display, you can stack these players on top of each other.

To stack the invoked players:

1. 	Choose the Menu button [image].

The drop-down menu appears.

2.	Select the Stack Players option.

The invoked players will be stacked on top of each other.


Changing Your Color Scheme

You can change the color scheme of the EnsembleRemote and all EnsembleAV players.

To change the color scheme:

1.	Choose the Menu button [image].

The drop-down menu appears.

2.	Select the Color Scheme option.

A sub-menu displaying all available color schemes appears as shown.

3.	Select the color scheme you like.

The color scheme of the EnsembleRemote and all players will change to the selected scheme.


Moving the EnsembleRemote

To move the EnsembleRemote, simply click on the surface of the player and drag it to the position you want.


Moving the EnsembleAV Players

When  the Stack Players Mode is on, to move the EnsembleAV players as a group, simply click on the surface of any player and drag the players to the position you want.


Minimizing the EnsembleRemote

You can minimize the EnsembleRemote to an icon. To do this:

1.	Choose the Minimize button [image] using the mouse or by pressing <N>.

The EnsembleRemote changes to an icon.


Quitting the EnsembleRemote

To quit the EnsembleRemote:

1.	Choose the Power Off button [image] using the mouse or by pressing <O>.


Keyboard Shortcuts

Press	To do this
<O>	Power off the player.
<Alt+Spacebar>	Activates the menu.
<N>	Minimizes the player.
<P>	Plays a selected track.
<A>	Pauses the playing track.
<R>	Starts recording.
<S>	Stops the playing track.
<B>	Plays the previous track.
<K>	Quickly rewinds the track.
<W>	Quickly forwards the track.
<F>	Plays the next track.
<E>	Loads or unloads the CD (applies to EnsembleCD only).
<L>	Launches the Playlist dialog.
<C>	Activate the Active Player Selector.
<H>	Activate the Invoke Player button.
<D>	Decreases the volume of the active player.
<U>	Increases the volume of the active player.
<1>	Input digit "1".
<2>	Input digit "2".
<3>	Input digit "3".
<4>	Input digit "4".
<5>	Input digit "5".
<6>	Input digit "6".
<7>	Input digit "7".
<8>	Input digit "8".
<9>	Input digit "9".
<0>	Input digit "0".
<Ctrl+D>	Switches the display mode.
<F1>	Activate the on-line help.


Glossary of Terms

Playlist

Record button

Stop button

Play button

Pause button

Skip-Reverse button

Rewind button

Fast-Forward button

Skip-Forward button

Load/Eject button


Playlist

A list of tracks ordered by the user. During playback, the player would look for tracks in this list to play.


Record button

This button starts recording.


Stop button

This button stops the playing track.


Play button

This button plays the chosen track.


Pause button

This pauses the playing track.


Skip-Reverse button

This button plays the previous track.


Rewind button

This button quickly rewinds the track.


Fast-Forward button

This button quickly forwards the track.


Skip-Forward button

This button plays the next track.


Load/Eject button

This button loads or unloads the CD (applies only to the EnsembleCD).