Spacewalker HOT-255 Bedienungsanleitung

HOT-255 Sound Card

User Manual

(Deluxe)

Spacewalker Sound System

NOTICES AND WARNINGS

Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Inter-

ference Statement

Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits

for a Class “B” digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These

limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful inter-

ference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and

can radiate frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance

with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communica-

tions. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a

particular installations. If this equipment does cause harmful interference

to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the

equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interfer-

ence by one or more of the following measures:

1. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

2. Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver.

3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that

to which the receiver is connected.

4. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Declaration of Conformity

For the following product:

HOT-255 PCI 3D Wavetable sound card

We confirm that it complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is

subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause

harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference re-

ceived, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Trademarks

All products name are for identification only and are trademarks of their

respective companies.

NOTICES AND WARNINGS

CONTENTS

TABLEOF

NOTICES AND WARNINGS ............................................................. 2

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE

STATEMENT ............................................................................................ 2

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ................................................................. 2

TRADEMARKS.......................................................................................... 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................... 3

PART 1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................. 7

SPACEWALKER SOUND SYSTEM HOT-255 SOUND CARD ............................. 7

WHAT IS AUDIOPCI™? .......................................................................... 7

WHY PCI?............................................................................................. 7

SYNTHESIZER .......................................................................................... 7

DIGITAL AUDIO....................................................................................... 8

MIDI .................................................................................................... 8

MIXER ................................................................................................... 8

INCLUDED SOFTWARE............................................................................... 9

MULTI-LANGUAGE WINDOWS 95 DRIVER & VOYETRA - AUDIOSTATION ....... 9

SPACEWALKER INSTALL LAUNCHER............................................................ 9

ABOUT THIS MANUAL ............................................................................. 9

PART 2 INSTALLING HOT-255 ..................................................... 10

WHAT YOU NEED ................................................................................. 10

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE .................................................................... 10

PREPARING YOUR COMPUTER ................................................................. 10

CONNECTORS ........................................................................................ 12

Modem/TAD In/Out ......................................................................... 12

TV Tuner/IDE/Sony CD Input.......................................................... 12

CD Audio Input................................................................................ 12

Line Out/Headphone........................................................................ 12

Aux Input ......................................................................................... 13

Mic In .............................................................................................. 13

Joystick/MIDI .................................................................................. 13

PLACING THE CARD IN YOUR COMPUTER.................................................. 13

PART 3 INSTALLING AUDIOPCI™ SOFTWARE ...................... 15

WINDOWS 95........................................................................................ 15

CONTENTS

Installing/Updating the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ Driver................... 15

Updating the Current Driver .................................................................... 15

Installing the Multimedia Extensions ....................................................... 17

Configuring the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™.......................................... 18

MIDI Synthesizer Wavesets ..................................................................... 18

Locking the MIDI Waveset ...................................................................... 19

Legacy Emulation .................................................................................... 20

Allow LPT Interrupt Sharing ................................................................... 20

Joystick Port ............................................................................................ 20

Microphone BIAS .................................................................................... 20

Add Mixer to Taskbar .............................................................................. 20

Driver Files .............................................................................................. 21

PCI Resources.......................................................................................... 21

Configuring the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ Legacy Device.................. 21

Disabling/Uninstalling the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™......................... 23

Disabling the driver ................................................................................. 23

Uninstalling the AudioPCI™ ................................................................... 24

WINDOWS 95 OSR2 ............................................................................. 25

Installing/Updating the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ Driver................... 25

Updating the Current Driver .................................................................... 25

Installing the Multimedia Extensions ....................................................... 25

Configuring the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ and Legacy Device........... 26

Disabling/Uninstalling the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™......................... 26

Disabling the driver ................................................................................. 26

Uninstalling the AudioPCI™ ................................................................... 27

WINDOWS NT 4.0................................................................................. 28

Installing/Updating the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ .............................. 28

Configuring the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™.......................................... 29

Joystick .................................................................................................... 29

Synth Wave File ...................................................................................... 30

ENSONIQ Mixer ..................................................................................... 31

Uninstalling the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ ......................................... 31

WINDOWS 3.X....................................................................................... 32

Installing/Updating the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ Drivers ................. 32

Configuring the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™.......................................... 33

ENSONIQ Soundscape Emulation ........................................................... 33

Sound Blaster Emulation ......................................................................... 33

Legacy Emulation .................................................................................... 33

Joystick .................................................................................................... 33

Microphone BIAS .................................................................................... 33

ENSONIQ Mixer ..................................................................................... 34

Uninstalling the ENSONIQ AudioPCI™ ......................................... 34

PART 4 USING HOT-255 IN WINDOWS 95 .................................. 35

THREE OPERATING MODES ..................................................................... 35

Windows 95 Mode............................................................................ 35

Windows 95 MS-DOS Prompt.......................................................... 35

Windows 95 MS-DOS Mode ............................................................ 35

Using MS-DOS Mode .............................................................................. 36

How MS-DOS Mode works ..................................................................... 36

CHANGES MADE TO THE SYSTEM............................................................. 36

Files Deleted.................................................................................... 36

Files Added...................................................................................... 36

AUTOEXEC.BAT ............................................................................. 37

CONFIG.SYS ................................................................................... 38

DOSSTART.BAT .............................................................................. 38

INSTALLING GAMES FOR AUDIOPCI™..................................................... 39

Determining Resources.................................................................... 39

Selecting the Best Sound Options in a game .................................... 40

Music Options .......................................................................................... 41

Digital Audio Options .............................................................................. 42

PART 5 USING AUDIOPCI™ APPLICATIONS IN WIN95 ......... 43

ENSONIQ MIXER ............................................................................... 43

Real-Time Effects............................................................................. 43

Recording ........................................................................................ 44

Microphone...................................................................................... 44

Options Menu .................................................................................. 45

MS-DOS MODE UTILITIES.................................................................... 45

APCONFIG.EXE ............................................................................. 45

APMIXER.EXE ................................................................................ 46

MT32.EXE ....................................................................................... 47

PART 6 VOYETRA-AUDIOSTATION INSTALLATION............. 49

INSTALLATION UNDER WINDOWS 95 / 3.X/ NT 4.0................................... 49

APPENDIX A MORE ABOUT MIDI ............................................... 50

WHAT IS MIDI?................................................................................... 50

GENERAL MIDI.................................................................................... 51

APPENDIX B TROUBLESHOOTING IN WINDOWS 95 ............. 53

CONFIGURATION .................................................................................... 53

USING TWO SOUND CARDS .................................................................... 54

MULTIMEDIA COMPONENTS (I.E., MEDIA PLAYER)..................................... 54

AUDIO PROBLEMS.................................................................................. 54

VOLUME AND BALANCE LEVELS.............................................................. 55

RECORDING WITH AMICROPHONE............................................................ 55

CD AUDIO ........................................................................................... 56

PROBLEMS WITH GAMES ......................................................................... 56

APPENDIX C ERROR MESSAGES ................................................ 58

APINIT.COM .................................................................................... 58

APCONFIG.EXE ............................................................................... 61

MT32.EXE......................................................................................... 62

APMIXER.EXE ................................................................................. 63

PCI SPECIFIC ERRORS............................................................................ 64

APPENDIX D TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS........................... 65

HOST INTERFACE ................................................................................... 65

SYNTHESIZER ........................................................................................ 65

FMSYNTHESIS ..................................................................................... 65

DIGITAL AUDIO..................................................................................... 65

AUDIO MIXING ..................................................................................... 66

INTERNAL AUDIO CONNECTORS ............................................................... 66

CD In:.............................................................................................. 66

TV Tuner In: .................................................................................... 66

Telephone Answering Device (TAD) In/Out: ................................... 67

EXTERNAL AUDIO CONNECTORS .............................................................. 67

Mic In: ............................................................................................. 67

Aux In: ............................................................................................. 67

Line Out:.......................................................................................... 68

CONNECTOR PIN-OUT ............................................................................ 68

Spacewalker Sound System HOT-255 Sound Card

The Spacewalker Sound System HOT-255 Sound Card is designed based

on ENSONIQ’s breakthrough AudioPCITM technology to take full advan-

tage of the PCI bus’ architecture, while maintaining compatibility with

older legacy software. Legacy game compatibility was originally a prob-

lem when considering a PCI based sound card solution. The problem was

that existing software and games for the PC had been designed to run on

ISA based sound cards. To function properly, those cards must write di-

rectly to the inherently slow ISA Direct Memory Access (DMA) control-

ler. These signals are not present on the PCI bus. AudioPCI™ allows legacy

software to function as if the ISA signals are present, while utilizing the

faster speed of the PCI bus.

AudioPCI™ technology was developed by ENSONIQ, a recognized leader

in the electronic musical instrument industry. The same advanced chip

designs that function as the engines for ENSONIQ’s line of professional-

level synthesizers, samplers, and effect processors have been used in

AudioPCI™.

What is AudioPCI™ ?

AudioPCI™ technology is a combination of hardware and software that

provides the highest quality in PC sound and the greatest compatibility

with current standards.

Why PCI?

The PCI bus is far superior to the ISA bus. It is capable of transferring data

on a wider 32-bit bandwidth bus. This allows much more data to pass from

the PCI bus to the host processor. The ISA bus is only capable of 16-bit

bandwidth transfers. Using the PCI bus will allow a 4 to 20 times increase

in speed over much slower DMA transfers on the ISA bus. This drastically

reduces the overhead on the host CPU. This tremendous processing power

opens up new possibilities for sound cards. Real-time software based sound

fields are now possible without bogging down the host CPU.

Here’s a brief overview of Spacewalker Sound System HOT-255 Sound

Card’s main features:

Synthesizer

•Provides up to 32 voices of wavetable synthesis.

PART INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

•Includes two and four megabyte General MIDI/ Roland MT-32

sound sets as well as AdLib/SoundBlaster Pro and FM synthe-

sizer emulation.

•Because of the high data transfer rates that the PCI bus will al-

low, HOT-255 is able to utilize a flexible method of storing and

accessing wavetable sounds. All 128 General MIDI instrument

sounds are stored on the PC’s hard drive and accessed using the

computer’s on-board RAM. This technology allows for expand-

able sound sets.

Digital Audio

•Allows the recording of CD-quality stereo sound (up to 16 bits,

48.0 kHz sampling rate) from Aux, CD and TV Tuner Inputs as

well as from the internal synthesizer.

•Allows the recording of sound from the Mic Input with or with-

out 5-volt BIAS power or 30-dB boost.

•Allows the recording of sound from the Modem/TAD Input/Out-

put.

•Playback of stereo wave samples of 8- or 16-bit sound.

•Enables playback of standard PC Wave files (.VOC,.WAV, etc.).

MIDI •Provides an MPU-401 compatible MIDI interface, including

MIDI In and MIDI Out/Thru (requires external cable, not sup-

plied).

•Allows the recording of MIDI events from an external MIDI key-

board controller.

•Enables playback of standard PC MIDI files (i.e., .MID, .ROL,

etc.) to either the on-board synthesizer or to an external synthe-

sizer.

Mixer

Provided software mixer allows synthesizer and digital audio output to be

mixed with signal arriving at the card’s CD, Aux, Mic, Modem and TV

Tuner Inputs.

INTRODUCTION

IncludedSoftware

HOT-255 is supplied with installation software, configuration utilities, de-

vice drivers and initialization utilities.

Multi-Language Windows 95 Driver & Voyetra - AudioStation

Provides multi-language Windows 95 driver & Voyetra - AudioStation in

English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

Spacewalker Install Launcher

User friendly GUI ( Graphic user interface ) Spacewalker Install Launcher,

automatic detection and installation of Multi-Language Windows 95 Driver

& Voyetra - AudioStation.

About This Manual

Many people do not read manuals; however, an ounce of caution is worth

a pound of prevention, so we do strongly recommend that you take a few

moments to go through these pages before installing your HOT-255 hard-

ware and software. In particular, we recommend that you carefully read

the information preceded by the following two symbols, which have these

special meanings:

This is a CAUTION. It lets you know that if you fail to heed the

accompanying message, you could damage your system or software.

Be sure to read these!

This is a hint, tip, or other piece of valuable information that can

save you time and energy, especially during initial installation.

PART 2

What You Need

To use HOT-255, your computer system should meet the following re-

quirements:

•75 MHz Pentium processor or better

•VGA or SVGA graphics adapter and monitor

•Mouse

•Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows NT 4.0, DOS 6.22

or Windows 3.x

•One open PCI expansion slot

•At least 12 MB of free hard disk space installing all HOT-255

software and samples.

•Enough RAM to accommodate the system, plus the waveset cho-

sen (2 MB and 4 MB wavesets included)

•You will also need a set of powered speakers or headphones.

What You Should Have

Check to see that your Spacewalker Sound System HOT-255 package con-

tains all of the following items:

•The HOT-255 sound card in anti-static bag

•The HOT-255 User Manual

•The HOT-255 Installation CD with Manual

Preparing Your Computer

As you install the HOT-255, follow these basic precautions:

Some PC’s maintain power to the motherboard even when the power

switch is turned off.

•If it is necessary to disconnect peripheral equipment cables from

the back of the computer, be sure to note cable positions for proper

reconnection later.

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