Audiotrak MAYA EX5 CE User Manual

Innovative external 5.1 surround audio solution

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  • Page 1 Innovative External 5.1 Surround Audio Solution User’s Guide...
  • Page 2 AUDIOTRAK - Copyright © 2001 - 2006 Revision 3, December 2006 www.audiotrak.net...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 INDEX 1. Introduction..........................4 Hardware Features & Connectors ..........................4 2. Installation ............................ 5 System Recommendation............................5 Hardware Installation..............................5 Driver Installation ..............................6 3. Settings and Usage ........................7 Windows Volume and Speaker settings........................8 QSound settings ................................. 9 ASIO compatible applications ..........................
  • Page 4: Introduction

    Next to a special QSound surround engine that provides compatibility to EAX 1.0/2.0, A3D and DirectSound 3D, the hardware also allows the pass through of AC3, DTS and Dolby Digital data. There is even ASIO support available -provided by pro audio manufacturer ESI- that allows the usage of MAYA EX5 together with professional audio application.
  • Page 5: Installation

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 On the left side of the unit, you can find the Headphone & Optical Out connector. You can use this connector to connect MAYA EX5 to devices with a digital S/PDIF input using a Toslink to Miniplug or Miniplug to Miniplug optical cable. Alternatively the same connector can be used as output for headphones featuring the built-in headphone amplifier.
  • Page 6: Driver Installation

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 Driver Installation After the connection of MAYA EX5 , the operating system automatically detects it as a new hardware device. Modern operating systems like Windows XP usually detect the hardware directly and are installing the correct USB audio drivers automatically. You can use MAYA EX5 already now in typical consumer audio applications that do not need special multichannel driver support.
  • Page 7: Settings And Usage

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 Congratulations! You have now completed the installation successfully and the installation of MAYA EX5 has been completed now. If you want to remove the software at a later time, you need to remove it via Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
  • Page 8: Windows Volume And Speaker Settings

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 Windows Volume and Speaker settings Go to Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties and check Place volume icon in the taskbar under Volume to conveniently access to the volume settings. Click Advanced... under Speaker settings and select the desired speaker configuration. Unless you have a surround setup with more than two speakers, please select the default Desktop stereo speakers.
  • Page 9: Qsound Settings

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 Here you can change the playback volume of each specific signal source. To change the record settings and select a record source, go to Options > Properties and select Recording. The record source (in the example above the Microphone input) is selected via the Select checkbox at the lower end of the channel.
  • Page 10: Asio Compatible Applications

    AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 The QSound control panel allows you to configure the various features of the QSound software. QSound is used to control and provide functionality like EAX or A3D compatibility in games or various virtual surround sound emulation features: QSound Environmental Modeling (QEM™) is an acoustic environment simulation.
  • Page 11 AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 - headset connector, 3.5 mm jack - natively supported sample rate: 48kHz - resolution: 16-bit - digital I/O with coaxial input, coaxial output, mini optical output connector - digital I/O format: 16-bit, 48kHz, S/PDIF (IEC-958) - A/D converter: 91dB(a) dynamic range, frequency response: 20 Hz ~ 20 kHz, 18-bit resolution - D/A converter: 88dB(a) dynamic range, frequency response: 20 Hz ~ 20 kHz, 18-bit resolution - QSound driver engine supporting EAX1.0/2.0, A3D, Direct Sound 3D, QMSS, QExpander, QRumble, QSizzle, QNormalize, QEQ...
  • Page 12: General Information

    ESI, AUDIOTRAK and MAYA, and MAYA EX5 are trademarks of Ego Systems Inc., Gyrocom C&C Co. Ltd., ESI Audiotechnik GmbH and RIDI multimedia GmbH. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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