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Contents

Overview

What is Creative Multimedia Decks?

Creative Remote

The Interface

Knowing the Interface

Working with the Creative Remote

Making a Player Active

Playing Tracks

Adjusting the Volume

Activating a Playlist Dialog

Invoking a Player

Loading All Players

Closing All Players

Stacking Your Players

Changing Your Color Scheme

Moving the Creative Remote

Moving the Players

Minimizing the Creative Remote

Quitting the Creative Remote

Keyboard Shortcuts


What is Creative Multimedia Decks?

Creative Multimedia Decks is a multi-player control interface that allows you to control your multimedia devices, like your CD-ROM drives and overlay device, separately or concurrently.

It consists of Creative Remote and one or more multimedia players, such as Creative CD, Creative Wave and Creative MIDI.   Creative Remote 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 Creative Multimedia Decks players if you require more direct control over a device.


Creative Remote

 Creative Remote is the heart of Creative Multimedia Decks.  Like a home remote control, it lets you control all the Creative Multimedia Decks players from a single control interface.  In addition, it has some advanced features which include:

Ability to launch any of the available Creative Multimedia Decks players for more direct control over a device

A "touch-sensitive" display

Multiple display forms

Color scheme selection

Fast track selection


Knowing the Interface

When you launch Creative Remote, the Creative Remote interface appears as shown below:

Related Topics

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 Creative Remote.

Related Topic

Quitting the Creative Remote


Menu Button

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


Minimize Button

The Minimize Button [image] minimizes Creative Remote to an icon.

Related Topic

Minimizing the Creative Remote


"Touch Sensitive" Display

Clicking the "Touch Sensitive" Display allows you to switch among the three displays below:

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 player icons are shown below.

 	CD Player

 	MIDI Player

Related Topic

Making a Player Active


Invoke Player Button

The Invoke Player button [image] allows you to launch a player using Creative Remote.

Related Topic

Invoking a Player


Playlist Button

The Playlist button [image] allows you to launch the active player's Playlist dialog box so that you can compile a playlist.

Related Topic

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 Topic

Playing Tracks


Fast Track Selector

The Fast Track Selector consists of a group of buttons which you can use to quickly select a track to play.

Related Topic

Playing Tracks


Volume Control Buttons

The Volume Control buttons allows you to decrease or increase the volume of a playing track.

Related Topic

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 inputs when you use the Fast Track Selector to select a track to play.

Related Topic

Playing Tracks


Making a Player Active

Before you can control a player using the Creative Remote, 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.

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.

Notes

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

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

By default, the active player plays tracks from the playlist.  But if you want to, you can play tracks on the active player using the Playback Control buttons on the Creative Remote.  You can also select and play a track using the Fast Track Selector [image] buttons by following the steps below.

To play a track whose number is less than eleven

1	Turn off the Two-digit Mode Selector [image] if it is highlighted, by using the mouse or pressing <T>.

2	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.

To play the track whose number is more than nine

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.

Note

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


Adjusting the Volume

To adjust the volume of an active player

Click and hold down the left mouse button on the volume buttons [image] until the desired level is reached.

Notes

The "+" button is used for increasing the volume while the "-" button is used for  decreasing the volume.

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


Activating a Playlist Dialog

To launch an active player's Playlist dialog box

Choose the Playlist button [image] by using the mouse or 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 Creative Remote, 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.

2	Choose the button of the player to invoke.
The player appears.

Notes

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

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 Players

To invoke all players at the same time

1	Choose the Menu button [image].

2	From the drop-down menu, select Load All.


Closing All Players

To close all players at the same time

1	Choose the Menu button [image].

2	From the drop-down menu, select Close All.


Stacking Your Players

To stack the invoked players (one on top of the other)

1	Choose the Menu button [image].

2	From the drop-down menu, select Stack Players.


Changing Your Color Scheme

To change the color scheme of Creative Remote and all players

1	Choose the Menu button [image].

2	Select the Color Scheme option.
A sub-menu displaying all available color schemes appears as shown.

3	Select the color scheme you like.


Moving the Creative Remote

To move Creative Remote

Click on the surface of the player and drag it to the position you want.


Moving the Players

To move the Creative Multimedia Decks players as a group when the Stack Players Mode is on

Click on the surface of any player and drag the players to the position you want.


Minimizing the Creative Remote

To minimize Creative Remote to an icon

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


Quitting the Creative Remote

To quit Creative Remote

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


Keyboard Shortcuts

This Shortcut Key	Allows You To Do This

<O>	Switch off the player.

<Alt+Spacebar>	Activate the menu.

<N>	Minimize the player.

<P>	Play a selected track.

<A>	Pause the playing track.

<R>	Start recording.

<S>	Stop the playing track.

<B>	Play the previous track.

<K>	Quickly rewind the track.

<W>	Quickly forward the track.

<F>	Play the next track.

<E>	Load or unload the CD.  Available only in Creative CD.

<L>	Launch the Playlist dialog box.

<C>	Activate the Active Player Selector.

<H>	Activate the Invoke Player button.

<D>	Decrease the volume of the active player.

<U>	Increase the volume of the active player.

<T>	Switch on or off the 2-Digit Mode.

<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>	Switch the display mode.

<F1>	Launch the online help file.


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 a playing track.


Play button

This button plays a selected track.


Pause button

This pauses a playing track.


Skip-Reverse button

This button plays the previous track.


Rewind button

This button quickly rewinds a selected track.


Fast-Forward button

This button quickly forwards a selected track.


Skip-Forward button

This button plays the next track.


Load/Eject button

This button loads or unloads the CD.  Available only in Creative CD.