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CONTENTS
1.
OVERVIEW AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS..................3
2.
PRODUCT FEATURES................................................4
3.
CONNECTORS AND JUMPERS.................................6
4.
DRIVER INSTALLATION..............................................8
4.1.
DOS Installation.........................................................................8
4.2.
Win95/98/ME Installation.........................................................8
4.3.
Win95/98/ME Un-installation...................................................9
4.4.
Windows NT 4.0 Installation....................................................9
4.5.
Win2000 Installation................................................................10
5.
WINDOWS APPLICATIONS......................................12
5.1
Audio Rack...............................................................................12
5.1.1.
5.1.2.
5.1.3.
5.1.4.
Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter
Control Center.................................................................13
CD Player........................................................................14
MIDI Player....................................................................17
MP3/Wave Player............................................................20
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter CONTENTS OVERVIEW AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....3 PRODUCT FEATURES..........4 CONNECTORS AND JUMPERS.........6 DRIVER INSTALLATION..........8 4.1. DOS Installation.................8 4.2. Win95/98/ME Installation............8 4.3. Win95/98/ME Un-installation...........9 4.4. Windows NT 4.0 Installation............9 4.5. Win2000 Installation..............10 WINDOWS APPLICATIONS........12 Audio Rack................12 5.1.1. Control Center..............13 5.1.2.
  • Page 2 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5.1.5. Mixer................25 Multi-Channel Audio Demo............28 APPENDIX A - THE 4 SPEAKERS SYSTEM....37 APPENDIX B - C3D HRTF POSITIONAL AUDIO.....39 APPENDIX C - SOLUTIONS FOR MINI DISC....45...

  • Page 3: Overview And Acknowledgments

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 1. Overview and Acknowledgments This PCI Audio Adapter offers a new generation PCI audio solution: it utilizes the state-of-the-art CRL® 3D Audio technology(HRTF 3D positional audio), and supports Microsoft® DirectSound ® 3D and Aureal®’s A3D® interfaces. Better yet, it supports two / four speakers and DLS based (DownLoadable Sound) wave table music synthesizer which supports the DirectMusic®.

  • Page 4: Product Features

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 2. Product Features • Special Features PCI Plug and Play (PnP) bus interface, 32 bit PCI bus master. Full duplex playback and recording, built-in 16 bits CODEC. HRTF 3D positional audio, supports both DirectSound 3D®...
  • Page 5 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 120dB audio quality in playback, recording, and bypass modes. •Stereo Mixer Stereo analog mixing from CD-Audio, Line-in Stereo digital mixing from Voice, FM/Wave-table, Digital CD-Audio Mono mixing from MIC and software adjustable volume •Game and Midi Interface Fully compatible with MPU-401 Midi UART and Sound Blaster Midi mode/Standard IBM PC joystick/game port (dual channels)

  • Page 6: Connectors And Jumpers

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Connectors and Jumpers Connector Function Analog CD/IN Port ( Signals: L-G-R-G ) Analog CD/IN Port ( Signals: R-G-G-L ) AUX-IN Port ( Signals: L-G-G-R ) SPDIF ( Signals: O-G-I-G ) OPTICAL SPDIF- I/O Line-IN LINE-IN Connect with the audio output port of stereo Mic-IN Connect with the Microphone ( Mono )

  • Page 7: Driver Installation

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 4. Driver Installation 4.1. DOS Installation Before beginning the installation, please make sure that your hard disk has sufficient space(min. 4MB). Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM Drive. 1. Change directory to PCI audio DOS drivers folder (ex. D:\DOSDRV) at DOS prompt, and type: INSTALL [Enter] 2.

  • Page 8: Win95/98/Me Un-Installation

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5. When all the application software has been installed, please shut down Windows 95/98 system, and reboot your system for new drivers installation. System will install device drivers automatically. 4.3. Win95/98/ME Un-installation 1. Click "Start". 2.

  • Page 9: Win2000 Installation

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 10. Now, you have already installed the PCI Audio Adapter under Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 successfully. if you want to install the Windows applications, continue the following steps: 11. Click “Start”. 12. Select “Run”. 13.
  • Page 10 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter ” then click "Next button." 5. Click “Specify a location” to specify the driver path. 6. When “C-Media CM8738 Audio Driver(WDM)” is found, click “Finish”. 7. Now, system is installing device drivers automatically.

  • Page 11: Windows Applications

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5. Windows Applications 5.1 Audio Rack By means of a user-friendly interface(as easy as operating your home stereo system), this PCI audio rack provides you with the control over your PC’s audio functions, including the advantage of four speakers mode enable/disable, and perfect digital sound ( SPDIF ) input /output control.

  • Page 12: Control Center

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5.1.1. Control Center This Audio Rack consists of several major components: Control Center: Controls the display of the PCI Audio Rack components. CD Player can play standard audio CDs, and allow you to create your favorite song play list. MIDI Player can play MIDI files, *.mid/*.rmi, and allow you to create your favoriate song play list.

  • Page 13: Cd Player

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter component button(s) listed on the top. 5.1.2. CD Player CD Player: Plays standard audio CDs, and allows you to create your favorite song play list. Current Track field shows the number of the current selection of CD tracks.
  • Page 14 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter play the same CD. Previous song: Loads the previous track of play list. If current track is the first track, the last track will become the current track. Next song: Loads the next track of play list. If current track is the last track, the first track will become the current track.
  • Page 15 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Setting: Selects the CD-ROM drive which analog output is connected to the Analog-CD in of your sound card. If your CD-ROM does not connect the analog CD input wire, please select "Using CD-DA" option. Help: Shows the help screen for detailed button function descriptions.

  • Page 16: Midi Player

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5.1.3. MIDI Player MIDI Player can play MIDI files, *.mid/*.rmi, and allow you to create your personal song play list. Current file field shows the number of the current selection of MIDI files. File name field shows the file name. Total length field displays the total length of the current selected file in minutes and seconds.
  • Page 17 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Previous song: Loads the previous MIDI file of play list. If current file is the first MIDI file, the last one will become the current selection. Next song: Loads the next MIDI file of play list. If current file is the last one, the first file will become the current selection.
  • Page 18 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Help: Shows the help screen for detailed button function descriptions. About: Shows softward version and copyright information. Exit: Stop running MIDI Player.

  • Page 19: Mp3/Wave Player

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5.1.4. MP3/Wave Player MP3/Wave Player can play mp3, wave, CDDA, and MPEG- 1 files. It provides EAX and equalizer to improve the sound effect when you playback the audio files. If you want to sing a song, MP3/Wave Player also provides a Karaoke function.
  • Page 20 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Previous song: Loads the previous audio file of play list. If current file is the first file, the last one will become the current selection. Next song: Loads the next audio file of play list. If current file is the last one, the first file will become the current selection.
  • Page 21 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Forward 10 seconds: Causes the current playback time to 10 seconds forward. Sound Effector: You can use this function to modify the special effect of the song being played. Currently, these effectors can only be used for 44.1 KHz, 16 bits format.
  • Page 22 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Recording: You can use this function to record a wave file from any recording channel.
  • Page 23 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Help: Shows the help screen for detailed button function descriptions. About: Shows software version and copyright information. Exit: Stop running MP3/Wave Player.

  • Page 24: Mixer

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5.1.5. Mixer Volume Control For each output signal, a control slider controls the loudness whereas a horizontal slider controls the balance between the two speakers. The mute button can temporarily stop the output without changing slider positions. A button with a lit LED means the output is available, and vice versa.
  • Page 25 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 'Center/Subwoofer' (5 phone jacks) or 'Line-in' phone jack (4 phone jacks). Advanced: Controls the advanced settings. Recording Control For each input signal, a control slider controls the loudness whereas a horizontal slider controls the balance between the two channels.
  • Page 26 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Advanced Advanced dialog provides a fully control over SPDIF IN/OUT functions. You can use these settings to connect your computer to other pieces of audio device, such as Mini Disc, amplifier, etc. Furthermore, you can enable microphone booster and hot keys.
  • Page 27 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Please use 'Load Mixer Defaults' to change all settings to default values.

  • Page 28: Multi-Channel Audio Demo

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 5.2 Multi-Channel Audio Demo CMI8738 PCI-Based C3DX Audio Chip provides many advanced functions, such as:  HRTF-based CRL ® 3D extension positional audio; API compatible with Microsoft ® DirectSound ® 3D and Aureal ® A3D API.
  • Page 29 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Before running this demo program, you have to connect the speakers and the microphone to the correct phone jacks. Generally speaking, there are four ways for hardware connection (sound card and motherboard): 1. Four phone jacks (most sound cards belong to this) 2.
  • Page 30 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter How to enable 4 speakers/Multi-SPK You have to open the "Mixer" program and enable the "4- Speaker" or "Multi-SPK" mode to let the audio driver recognize your rear or center/subwoofer speakers, and have the front/rear/center/subwoofer speakers work. The audio driver will activate the audio chip to output different sounds from the front/rear/center/subwoofer speakers based on...
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  • Page 32 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Test Your Speakers Connection To make sure that the front and the rear speakers are correctly connected, you can use the following program to testify individual speaker output. Move cursor to whichever speaker you want to test and left-click the mouse. If the setup is correct, you can hear music coming from that speaker alone.
  • Page 33 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter take control. How was it like? Isn't it fantastic??? If you don't have 4- speaker system, hurry up and buy yourself one right away! Monotonous footsteps generate distinctive sound effects in different environments. In this Demo, you can hear a lady wearing high heels walk in different surroundings: generic environment, bathroom, sewer pipe, and underwater.
  • Page 34 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter HRTF HRTF stands for Head Related Transfer Functions, and it is a set of audio filters varying locations of sound effects(spatial hearing cues) in three-dimension measure from listener's eardrum. This technology and special digital signal processing are used to recreate spatial hearing cues, making our ears hear realistic and three-dimensional sounds coming from a pairs of loud speakers or headphones.
  • Page 35 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Echo Like to sing along with Karaoke? It might occur to you to use your PC for this. However, when you turn on the microphone, play the song, and ready to sing, you see that the effect is not very good.
  • Page 36 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter How to Run the Demonstrations Automatically To help sales persons better demonstrate these audio features, we design this Auto Demo, which can automatically run the following demos: Demo1, Demo2, EAX, and HRTF. . And also we know you have different speakers' configuration, so we provides a complete setting dialog to let you select the speakers type or earphone.

  • Page 37: Appendix A - The 4 Speakers System

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Appendix A - The 4 Speakers System This Audio Adapter provides 2 wave channels(front/rear), known as the 4 speakers system. When games or application programs locate sound sources DirectSound® 3D or A3D® interface to the listener's back, the two rear speakers will work to enhance the rear audio positional effect, so as to complement the insufficiency of using only two front speakers to emulate the audio effect.
  • Page 38 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 3. The mixer setup There is a 4 speakers option in the volume control of the mixer. When you enable this option, it means the rear speakers are connected to Line-in/Rear jack. When Line-in/Rear jack is connected to other external Line-in sources, please DO NOT enable this option in order to avoid hardware conflicts.

  • Page 39: Appendix B - C3D Hrtf Positional Audio

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Appendix B - C3D HRTF Positional Audio The technology of C3D is licensed from CRL (Central Research Lab.), using an audio filter called Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs). The basic concept of C3D is, since we can hear sound three dimensionally in the real world using two ears, it must be possible to regenerate the same sound effect from two loud speakers.
  • Page 40 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter the amplitudes of the sound signals arriving at each ear from the source. The effects of diffraction are most noticeable in the range between about 700 Hz to 8 KHz, where the A and S functions periodically converge and diverge gently.
  • Page 41 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 3. Pinna effects It has been assumed by some researchers that the convolutions of the pinna creates the spectral features which constitute the 'height' cues. In practical experiments by Gardner, in which different parts of the pinna were occluded, and then the ability of a number of subjects to identify sound source positions at different heights was tested, it was shown that the different features all contributed...
  • Page 42 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter psychological cues. 1. Shoulder / Torso reflections The presence of a torso attached to an artificial head has the effect of increasing the pressure in the vicinity of the ear up to frequencies of around 2 kHz. The effect is greater for frontal sources than lateral sources.
  • Page 43 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter sources at, say, +-70 degrees and 80 degrees azimuth.  The quality of the sound image relates to the HRTFs used.  The quality of the room image relates to addition of reflections and reverb. 3.
  • Page 44 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 3. Locations of speakers If you listen from speakers, please do not inverse the left and right speakers. They must be in equal distance from you. That means you, the left, and the right speaker must be in the topmost of a right triangle.

  • Page 45: Appendix C - Solutions For Mini Disc

    User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter Appendix C - Solutions for Mini Disc The MP3 player has been catching people's attention ever since its debut, as this pocket size player provides people with a more convenient access to the MP3 music enjoyment (in the past, it requires a PC to play MP3 music).
  • Page 46 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter want to digitally record the MP3 music on their PC to the MD player. The optical fiber interface offers two applications: the output and the input. 1. The output: A. PC to MD player: this includes CD audio to MD player, WAV to MD player, and wave-table music to MD player.
  • Page 47 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter <CASE-2> Portable CD-ROM player to MD B. PC to AC3 decoder or DAC.
  • Page 48 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter 2. The input: A. MD player to PC: the optical in can accept digital audio from the desktop MD player or high-end CD, and store it in 24-bit WAV format.
  • Page 49 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter B. Hi-end CD to PC (with optical out) Using MP3/Wave Player to work with Mini Disc recording MP3/Wave Player is an easy and powerful tool for Mini Disc recording. Besides allowing you to create your favorite play list, it also provides a control interface of SPDIF IN/OUT of C- Media's sound card.
  • Page 50 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter STEP 4. Start to play the songs. You will see that the MD Player starts to do the recording as well. Appendix D - Recording from SPDIF-IN The optical module can connect to SPDIF-IN device, such as Portable CD-ROM player, CD-ROM driver, MD Player, etc.
  • Page 51 User’s Manual Xwave7000/7100 PCI Audio Adapter STEP 3. In 'Wave Recording' dialog, you should select the recording format and SPDIF-IN recording channel. Then input the file name. Before recording, please turn on your SPDIF-IN device and start to playback. Finally, press 'Record' to start the recording process.

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