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CMI8330

SOUND CARD

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Page 1 CMI8330 SOUND CARD ENGLISH MANUAL...
Page 2 Notice The information in this document is subject to change in order to improve the reliability, design, or function of this product without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of this company. In no event will the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, or consequential damages arising out of the use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Page 3 FCC Compliance Statement Certified to comply with the limits for a Class B computing device according to Subpart J or Part 15 of FCC rules. See instructions if interference to radio reception is suspected. FCC WARNING 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.
Page 4: Table Of Contents
1.6 Wave-Table Upgrade Board ............5 1.7 What is SPDIF IN/OUT? ............. 5 2. Installation of the CMI8330 ........... 7 2.1 Installing the CMI8330 into your Computer....... 7 2.2 DOS and Windows 3.1 Applications Installation ......9 2.3 DOS Utilities Installation only ..........10 2.4 Set DOS environment variables for Sound Blaster compatible ..
Page 5 4.2 Un-installing the Windows 95 driver ......... 20 4.3 Windows 95 Drivers Important Note ......... 21 4.4 About Full Duplex :..............21 4.4.1 How to test the Full-Duplex function of CMI8330 (PLAY and RECORD at same time)? ......21 4.4.2 Prepared for recording........... 22 4.5 Software Wave-Table ..............
Page 6 4.10 Dual Mixer : ................25 5. Installation of Windows NT 4.0 .......... 26 5.1 Installing the Windows NT4.0 non-PnP drivers ......26 5.1 Installing the Windows NT4.0 non-PnP drivers ......27 6. Windows Applications(Audio Rack)........29 6.1 Introduction ................29 6.2 MIDI Player, Wave Player, and CD Player ........
Page 7: Hardware Introduction
Hardware Introduction 1.1 Product Overview The CMI8330 is a stereo 16 bit PnP sound card. It is compatible with Sound Blaster 16 and Microsoft Windows Sound System. Especially it provides C3D HRTF positional audio, you can enjoy real 3D positional audio in games or applications that supports DirectX 5.0 Direct Sound 3D or A3D.
Page 8 Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 1- Hardware Introduction • Compatibility Windows Sound System Sound Blaster 16/PRO/2.0 MPU-401 UART MIDI Wave Table Synthesis AdLib Windows 3.1/95/NT4.0 Meets and exceeds Multimedia PC Level 2 Specifications • Digitized Audio Up to 16 bit stereo 44KHz sampling rate voice playback/recording Full duplex playback and recording (Play wave file and recording wave at same times) •...
Page 9: Hardware And Software Requirements
• 80486 or above CPU (Pentium is recommended) B) Software • MS-DOS 5.0 or greater • Microsoft Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 NOTE: Above requirements are minimum requirements. You may be required to aquire more hardwares or softwares to use the CMI8330 functions to its full extent.
Page 10: What Is Plug And Play Isa Standards
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 1- Hardware Introduction 1.4 What is Plug and Play ISA Standards ? The ISA bus architecture allows allocation of I/O address spaces, DMA channels, and interrupt levels among multiple ISA cards. However, the ISA interface has no defined hardware or software mechanism for allocating these resources.
Page 11: Wave-Table Upgrade Board
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 1- Hardware Introduction 1.6 Wave-Table Upgrade Board For saving one I/O port and one IRQ channel, we disable MPU-401 MIDI device as default value. If you want to output by wave-table (MPU-401 MIDI device): In DOS (also Windows 3.1), please run CMINIT.EXE to enable MPU-401 MIDI device.
Page 12 Media Rack System Mixer CD-ROM door open or close. Besides, SPDIF can not adjust volume. So we recommended you to follow the steps that describe above.
Page 13: Installation Of The Cmi8330
6. Put the computer cover back on and reconnect the power cords. Note: At step 5, if the CMI8330 will not slide in smoothly, do not force it. Make sure the CMI8330 is lined up properly, and try again. You may need...
Page 14 Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 2- Installation the CMI8330 Table 2.1 The CMI8330 Jumper Setting Description Function Jumper Setting Power Amplifier Output select Line-out Micphone type open normal Micphone short special Micphone Attention : If your sound card doesn‘t have power amplifier built-in, there is no JP1 jumper to set.
Page 15: Dos And Windows 3.1 Applications Installation
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 2- Installation the CMI8330 Table 2.2 Connector function Connector Function Connect Wave Table Upgrade Board (optional) Connect with joystick or MIDI cable Connect IDE/Sony CD-ROM Audio output LINE Connect with the audio output(line-out) from stereo...
Page 16: Dos Utilities Installation Only
2.4 Set DOS environment variables for Sound Blaster compatible The CMI8330 is compatible with Sound Blaster, so you can execute programs which can run with it. Some games or applications need read hardward setting from DOS environment variables ‘BLASTER’, CMINIT.EXE will automatically add to AUTOEXEC.BAT for you.
Page 17: Utilities Software
Utilities Software It is always a good idea to make backup copy of your original software. Make a backup copy of your "CMI8330 software disk" now and store your original diskettes in a safe place. NOTE: In the following paragraphs, Utilities are assumed to be installed in default Drive:\Path directory, which is C:\CM8330.
Page 18 Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 3- Utilities Software In main menu, you can use arrow keys to select items that you want to change. The sub window will display the I/O you can select. If any PCI or PnP card use this I/O , item will grey to avoiding conflict and display the PnP card title that use it.
Page 19: Cmmix
3.4 CMTEST CMTEST.EXE checks the CMI8330 I/O address, IRQ channel, DMA channel, and tests the CMI8330 hardware functionality including synthesized music, voice playback and voice recording. At DOS prompt, type...
Page 20: Cmutil
After I/O settings are tested, you may proceed to choose to test synthesized music, output voice and test recording functions. Speakers connected to the CMI8330 are necessary for all the tests. Microphone is necessary for test recording. Synthesized music test generates music output with the CMI8330 on board synthesizer.
Page 21 Media Rack System Mixer Play voice from memory: Play Working Memory contents. Use arrow key to highlight and press Enter to activate. This command is not executable if Working Memory is not filled. You can hear the sound that is stored in Working Memory in digitized form.
Page 22: Cmorgan
Media Rack System Mixer Save voice (memory) to disk: Saves memory contents to .VOC type file. Use arrow key to highlight and press Enter to activate. You will be prompted to enter file name to save. Key in the file name with .VOC extension. VOC is the standard file type used by CMUTIL.
Page 23: Cmrec
Media Rack System Mixer 3.8 CMREC CMREC.EXE lets you record voice into file at DOS prompt. Voice is recorded in a background process. You may specify optionally a foreground process running at the same time voice is being recorded. To run CMREC, at DOS prompt, type in cmrec [-Bxx] [-Syy] [-Mz] [-H] [-E"execute-command"] filename example: CMREC -b16 -s8000 -m1 -h -e"DIR"...
Page 24: Playwav
PLAYWAV.EXE lets you play wave file at DOS prompt. To run PLAYWAV, at DOS prompt, type in PLAYWAV filename [Enter] example: PLAYWAV DEMO.WAV Then the following text displayed: “ CMI8330 Sound Card WAVE file play program Version 1.00 During playing, you can use [Esc] -Stop and Exit [Space] -Pause [C] -Continue...
Page 25: Installation Of Windows 95
4.1 Installing the Windows 95 driver Steps of installing Windows 95 driver of CMI8330: 1. Power off your system, install CMI8330 sound card, audio cable, speaker, microphone, etc. (refer section 2.1) 2. Before reboot the computer, insert the CMI8330 Windows 95 installation diskette into drive A:(or B:).
Page 26: Un-Installing The Windows 95 Driver
8. Click “start” key 9. Select “Run” 10. Please make sure your CMI8330’s Windows 95 driver disk is in floppy A(or B). 11. Please Key in the path name of Windows applications install program as “A:\WSETUP.EXE”...
Page 27: Windows 95 Drivers Important Note
4.3 Windows 95 Drivers Important Note As we recommended in this manual before, you should install Win95 to your PC system before you installed CMI8330. If you do the installation VICE VERSA, then, the drivers of CMI8330 cannot be installed automatically and “Device Manager”...
Page 28: Prepared For Recording
1. Click “Start” key 2. Moved the mouse cursor to “Programs”. 3. Then move the cursor to “CMI8330 Audio Rack” 4. Select item “Audio Rack” and click. 5. Now you can see the Audio Rack program shown on your screen.
Page 29: W95 Dos Mode Mpu-401 Midi Emulator
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 4- Installation of Windows 95 4.6 W95 DOS mode MPU-401 MIDI emulator You can select MIDI output device as ‘MPU-401 MIDI’ in DOS games or applications that run in W95 DOS box. Please make sure that I/O port address is match to resources in “MPU-401 MIDI emulator”...
Page 30: Directx 5.0 Direct Sound 3D Interfaces
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 4- Installation of Windows 95 3. Location of speakers If you listen through speakers, please do not inverse the left and right speakers. They must be in equal distance from the listener. That means the listener,the left, and the right speaker must be in the topmost of a right triangle.
Page 31: Dual Mixer
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 4- Installation of Windows 95 4.10 Dual Mixer : Because of we provided two wave devices WSS and SB16 in Windows 95. If you use Windows 95 mixer to control volume and recording gain, you must select device that match to playback or record device in “Multimedia”...
Page 32: Installation Of Windows Nt 4.0
ATTENTION: 1. We recommend that you have already installed Windows NT 4.O before installing CMI8330. And you didn‘t install any other sound card device drivers in your current system. 2. Please make sure your PC BIOS PnP AUTO CONFIG is set to ENABLE, if your PC BIOS supports PnP function.
Page 33: Installing The Windows Nt4.0 Non-Pnp Drivers
1. Click “start” key. 2. Select “Run” item. 3. Please make sure your CMI8330’s Windows NT driver disk is in floppy A(or B). 4. Please Key in the path name of Windows NT applications install program as “A:\NTSETUP.EXE”...
Page 34 Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 5- Installation of Windows NT 4.0 3. First time installation If you have installed an all-new NT4.0 system, and NT PnP functions is active, then NT system will automatically detect our audio adapter. The PnP device that NT system detects will show on the screen, double click on the device, while the next dialog shown press “Set Configuration Manually”...
Page 35: Windows Applications(Audio Rack)
Media Rack System Mixer CMI8330 Windows Applications(Audio Rack) 6.1 Introduction Audio Rack gives you control over your PC’s audio functions through a user interface as simple to use as a home stereo system.
Page 36: Midi Player, Wave Player, And Cd Player
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 6- Audio Rack Audio Rack consists of several major components: Control Center: Controls the display of Audio Rack's components. MIDI Player: Plays MIDI music files. Lets you create song playlists and play the song files. Wave Player: Records and plays digital audio (wave) files.
Page 37: System Mixer
Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 6- Audio Rack Current Time field: displays the current time of files or tracks in minutes and seconds when playback or recording. Please refer to help screen for more detail button functions description. (click on help “?” button on player) 6.3 System Mixer System Mixer lets you control all audio output and input levels.
Page 38 Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 6- Audio Rack Control types and names vary. Some common types are listed below: Vol: The master control for all outputs. The strength of an output signal is determined by both the Vol slider and the slider for the individual output. To affect all outputs, move the Vol slider.
Page 39: Questions & Answers
System Mixer CMI8330 Questions & Answers Q1: Can we keep the PnP function of CMI8330 even on a Non-PnP motherboard? A1: Yes, but you have to use Win 95 and install the drivers properly. Q2: When CMI8330 and other NON-PnP interface cards are...
Page 40 Hardware/Software Section 7- Question & Answers A3: CMI8330 can auto-switch among SB16, WSS, and SB Pro modes. All you have to do is to setup the I/O, IRQ, DMA correctly (refer to AEINIT). Usually, we suggest you to choose SB16 or WSS mode under DOS to get real 16 bit sound effect.
Page 41 Media Rack System Mixer Finally use the MIC test function in IPHONE to assure the volume table of the MIC will re-act. 2) Please set the “recording device” and “playback device” under IPHONE to “WSS(534)”. 3) Set the “record and playback” under Win 95 to WSS(534) too. Q8: I‘ve already setup “Full-Duplex”...
Page 42 Media Rack System Mixer Hardware/Software Section 7- Question & Answers Q12: Why there are no sound output during play MPEG file by MPEG card? A12: Maybe Line-out of MPEG card didn‘t connect to Line-in of sound card or Line-in volume be muted in mixer. Q13: Why some games auto detect sound card to WSS mode, but I/O can not fit to current setting? A13: Windows Sound System (WSS) supports registers for applications...