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Browse to locate the Library folder
Selecting the Library Folder
All audio files must be located in a single audio directory (folder) for
Xtreme to play from them. By default, this folder is
C:\Arrakis\Xtreme\Library.
A different path from the default path can be selected by clicking on
the CHANGE AUDIO DIRECTORY button. A standard Windows Find File
dialog will open. Browse to your new library and click on an audio file
in that directory to select it. The new library will be loaded into the
Xtreme directory and the new path will be saved.
Setting the Com port
Xtreme uses the USB port on the ARC console to play and record
Once the Com port has been selected
Select the Com port that
audio. Xtreme uses the RS232 serial communications port on the
then click on the SET button
the ARC-10 console is connected to
ARC console to send commands back and forth between the PC and
console.
Selecting the Com port
To communicate between the console and the PC, only a Com Port
number must be selected. (The Baud rate is fixed at 38400). The Port
box in the setup window is a drop down list that will display a list of
all available comports on the PC. Select the com port that you have
connected from the PC to the console. Click on the SET button.
Testing Communications
If the port that you have selected is not connected to the console and
has a conflict, then an error message will pop up and you should
select another com port. If you have selected the correct com port,
then turning console channel nine on and then off will flash one of the
four buttons yellow.
Viewing the Sound cards
Displays the Sound cards that Win-
dows recognizes
This is a display only window. It will display a list of all Sound cards
that Windows has detected. If the PC is properly connected to the
ARC console by the USB cable and the console power is on, it should
show the ARC console sound card in the list named 'USB Audio
Codec'. Also, the 'USB Audio Codec' should be displayed as the 'Pr-
ogram Sound Card.' The 'Cue Sound Card' should be assigned as the
sound card in the PC computer itself.
Note: if the 'USB Audio Codec 'is displayed as the 'Program Sound
Card', then program audio from the Xtreme software will play
through channel nine on the ARC console. Cue audio from the Xtreme
software will play out the PC speaker or out the Cue speaker in the
console (if the line(speaker) out of the PC is wired to the Cue input on
the ARC console).
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