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PCM64 PC card User’s guide PCM64.doc 28/07/98
PCM64
PC Card Sound Studio
Reference Design
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LICENSE
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You may NOT :
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MIDI files & Waves data are provided for illustration purpose only. No licensing is implied.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION __________________________ 5
PCM64 Key Features
Diskettes Content
PCM64 Synoptic
Chapter 2: INSTALLATION __________________________ 9
System Requirements
WIN95 Hardware Installation
WIN95 Hardware Uninstallation
WIN95 Installation Troubleshooting
WIN95 Software Installation
WIN95 Software Uninstallation
PCM64 External Connections
Chapter 3: SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS _________________ 13
Mixer
Media Player
Chapter 4: MIDI IMPLEMENTATION ______________________ 19
Dream Specific MIDI Messages
Detailed MIDI Implementation
Sound List
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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
PCM64 Key Features
PCM64 is a professional sound card in PC card (PCMCIA type 2) format
Its features meet professional sound recording and musical application requirements, bringing Sound
Studio possibilities to the Notebooks.
4 channels audio out, 2 channels audio in and digital audio
You can enjoy quadriphony listening from your notebook and connect it to your digital audio recording
equipment through the S/PDIF adaptor box (optional). The PCM64 has a built-in surround processor
and is ready for future applications like Dolby Pro-Logic® and Dolby AC-3®, without compromising
on two speakers. Of course, you can play and record simultaneously.
Effect processor
PCM64 provides 16 reverb/chorus programs, a 4 band stereo equalizer and a surround 2/4 channels
system.
Those effects can be applied on all the sound devices: Wave table, DSP waves, Line input.
Wave Table Synthesis
1M samples RAM Wave Table CleanWave8® will make your MIDI sequences sound realistic. The
PCM64 is compatible with the Down Loadable Sound standard (DLS) allowing sound banks from
different vendors to be downloaded.
Professional Synthesizer
On card 2M byte DRAM enables the DSP to download and edit instruments. This lets you use the
PCM64 as a professional synthesizer/sampler.
Direct To Disk
The PCM64 provides DtD full duplex capabilities with 8 stereo play waves with individual volume,
panoramic, pitch, filter, reverb and chorus controls and one stereo record track.
(Simultaneous play wave count is subject to the notebook hard disk performances).
Direct Sound Ready
The PCM64 is ready to support Microsoft Direct Sound Features. This includes:
- Hardware mixing of multiple waves (up to 32 waves)
- On board memory buffer to support static wave buffer
- 3D & interactive audio positioning (4 speakers outputs, Doppler for interactive effect)
Upgradable
Being only RAM based, the PCM64 design is open to third party firmware.
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Diskettes Content
DISKETTE N°1 WIN95 Hardware installation (PCM64.inf)
DISKETTE N°2 WIN95 Software Bundle Applications (install.exe)
DISKETTE N°3 WIN95 Sound and Sound Bank Editors (Setuped.exe)
DISKETTE N°4 Midifiles with downloadable soundbanks
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PCM64 Sound Synoptic
Line In
DSP
Mixer
DSP
Waves
Wave Table
Synth
Reverb
Chorus
DSP
Wave
Record
Equalizer
Surround
Front
Surround
Wave Table Synthesis
The high quality wave table synthesis provides 32 midi channels with 64 maximum voices of polyphony (according
to the configuration).
The 24 dB resonant filter and the audio CD quality samples provides professional synthesizer sound quality.
The 2M bytes on board DRAM allows to download high quality GM factory sound bank or third party DLS sound
banks (through the provided Sound Bank Editor).
DSP Waves
The DSP waves ensures the high quality required by professional applications.
Multi waves for DtD (Direct to Disk) applications: 8 stereo play tracks + 1 stereo record track simultaneous.
High quality wave due to the interpolation and the digital filter
Up to 65KHz sampling rate with 8/16 bits mono/stereo format, (44.1 KHz nominal sampling rate).
Individual send to the reverb and the chorus effects provided by the DSP mixer.
DSP Mixer
The DSP Mixer provides for all inputs an individual volume, panoramic , reverb and chorus send:
•32 mono inputs: Wave table
•8 stereo inputs: DSP waves
•1 stereo input: Line In
Line input provides an additional echo with effect volume delay and feedback control.
DSP Waves record
This device records DSP mixer output including reverb & chorus in 8/16 bits mono/stereo format up to 44.1KHz
sampling rate.
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Reverb Chorus
Reverb and chorus are compatible :
•8 Reverb programs, effect volume, time and feedback controls.
•8 chorus programs, effect volume, delay, feedback, rate and depth controls.
Equalizer
Stereo four band parametric equalizer with +/- 12 dB band level
Surround
Surround processing enables to expand stereo image of a stereo signal or to create a pseudo stereo image from a
monophonic source. Surround operates on 2 or 4 speakers configuration.
The PCM64 surround processing involves a delay line that enables to creates actual 3D sound unlike most of the
products that claim to offer 3D sound.
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Chapter 2
INSTALLATION
System Requirements
•Notebook with 486 or above
•Free PC card slot (PCMCIA type 2)
•WINDOWS 95
•PCM64 card
•3M byte disk space for installation
WIN95 Hardware Installation
•Plug the PCM64 card into an unused PC card slot
•WIN95 finds new hardware « DREAM PC Card Sound Studio »
•WIN95 asks for drivers to install
•Select « Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer »
•Insert diskette N°1
•Follow WIN95 installation procedure.
•Now your hardware is installed
•From "start / settings /control panel / system / device manager / sound, video & game controllers",
check that your card is correctly installed.
It should appears as «PC Card Sound Studio »
•To define the PCM64 Wave table as default MIDI device:
From « start / settings /control panel / multimedia / midi »:
select « PC Card Sound Studio »
•To define the PCM64 Wave as default wave device:
From « start / settings /control panel / multimedia / wave »:
select « DREAM 9407, wave Nb1 » as playback
select « DREAM 9407, wave record » as recording
check « show volume control on the taskbar »
•Now your hardware is checked & configured
Hot Plug feature
The PCM64 can be inserted or removed while the notebook is running. However, following cautions
apply :
•Close all applications using sound before removing the PCM64
•When you insert the PCM64, there is some delay because firmware and soundbank are downloaded
to the card.
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WIN95 Hardware Uninstallation
•To Uninstall the PCM64 sound card:
From « start / settings /control panel / Add/Remove programs»:
select « DREAM PC Card Sound Studio - Uninstall »
•Follow the Uninstall procedure
•Turn the power off
•remove the PCM64 card
•Now your hardware is correctly uninstalled
Installation Troubleshooting
•From "start / settings /control panel / system / device manager / sound, video & game controllers",
check that your card is correctly installed.
•If the device Icon is overlaid with a yellow circle, this means that the device installation failed.
Installation failures may come from:
1°) problem with previous installations
2°) hardware failure
3°) Ressource allocation conflicts.
•1°) problem with previous installations:
uninstall the card following uninstall procedure
reboot the PC
Re-install the hardware
•3°)Ressource allocation conflicts
use WIN95 conflict resolution tools
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