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- Page 1 EGO-SYS WaMi Box DSP B ASED NTEGRATED PCMCIA D IGITAL UDIO YSTEM 16 C & FX ARDWARE NTERNAL IXER 64 V OICE AMPLER YNTHESIZER Owner’s Manual...
- Page 2 The FCC Regulation Warning This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules and CISPR pursuant to subchapter EN55022 of the EMC Directive. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION ..........................1 FEATURES ............................2 Sample Rate Converter ......................2 Sampling with WaMi Box ......................3 Using WaMi Box as a MIDI Sound Module ...............3 WAMI BOX PACKAGE CONTENTS ..................4 WAMI BOX I/O INTERFACE AND LED INDICATORS .............5 I/O I ............................ - Page 4 ............................. 17 ETMANAGER WAMI BOX ..................19 HE SIGNAL PATHS OF THE ..................19 HE SIGNAL PATHS IN THE SYNTHESIZER WAMI BOX APPLICATIONS ......................20 ............................ 20 ASIC Basic Connections.........................20 .................20 Basic WaMi Box Mixer in Normal DSP Mode To record and playback midi ......................21 To record audio..........................
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Page 5: Introduction
Congratulations and thank you for choosing WaMi Box! The WaMi Box is a professional integrated Audio/MIDI interface for notebook PC equipped with PCMCIA expansion slot. Its features meet professional sound recording/sampling and musical application requirements, bringing sound studio possibilities to your notebook PC. Imagine yourself recording/sequencing or editing your work while you are on the road! With a notebook computer and the WaMi Box, you’ve got all the things you need to do your job. -
Page 6: Features
2 Input/4 Output analog I/O 20-bit digital audio on your notebook is now a reality. RCA type I/O ports will provide exceptional audio quality. 4 Outputs (2 stereo channels) can be assigned for either separate channels output or same channel output for various working situation. -
Page 7: Sampling With Wami Box
WaMi Box’s A-D converter works only in 44.1 kHz sampling rate. However, it can accept 48 kHz sampling rate from all digital input ports and automatically converts it into 44.1 kHz sampling rate. For example, if you connect a digitally audio recorded in 48 kHz sampling rate into the COAXIAL S/PDIF input, WaMi Box will output 44.1 kHz converted signal at all output ports. -
Page 8: Wami Box Package Contents
Your WaMi Box package should contain the following: WaMi Box external unit (1) PCMCIA card (1) PCMCIA card cable (2) CD-ROM containing drivers and software (1) PCMCIA Card Caution : WaMi Box package includes 2 PCMCIA card cable with different length. We recommend you to handle the PCMCIA card and cable very carefully. -
Page 9: Wami Box I/O Interface And Led Indicators
WaMi Box contains many I/O ports for use in variety of applications. While most of them may be familiar and self explanatory, you may want to read through this section just as a precaution. L I N E I N Line level (-10dBV) inputs from analog audio devices, such as CD players or mixers. -
Page 10: Midi In/Out
M I D I I N / O U T MIDI input and output to connect to external MIDI equipped controllers (keyboards), and sound modules. H E A D P H O N E 1/4“ TRS jack for headphone monitoring o f WaMi Box. Only the outputs 1 and 2 (master outputs from WaMi Mixer) are monitored. -
Page 11: Optical
O P T I C A L Optical S/PDIF input source is selected and routed to WaMi Box Mixer‘s Input Module. Audio channel LED colors change according to their level. Light Green indicates low level and Red indicates peak level. P O W E R Indicates that power is being supplied through PCMCIA card. -
Page 12: Installation
- Notebook PC with Pentium II 233 or above processor - Windows 95/98 (Windows 98SE strongly recommended) - CD-ROM - 20 MB free disk space for installation 1. Turn your PC’s power off. 2. Plug in WaMi Box PCMCIA Card into an unused PC card slot 3. -
Page 13: Pcmcia Card - Hot Plug Feature
For most notebook computers, WaMi Box PCMCIA card can be inserted or removed while the notebook is powered up and running. However, the following apply: CAUTIONS 1. Close all applications that uses audio and MIDI devices before removing WaMi Box PCMCIA card. 2. -
Page 14: Windows
After your WaMi Box and the driver have been installed properly, you can install and use the WaMi Box Mixer, FX Panel, Virt.Channel, Set Manager and ED!SON provided in the CD-ROM. 1. To install the WaMi Box Applications : From [Start / Run], browse into [CD- ROM:\Applications\WaMi Box.exe]. -
Page 15: Wami Box Mixer
The control panel is the central control unit of the WAMI BOX. It contains firstly the analog mixer which mixes the various audio signals, and feeds them either to the output or the synthesizer for further processing. Switching of the various signal paths also takes place here: the signals are switched as required for the many varied tasks of the WAMI BOX. - Page 16 Wave level fader controls audio output level. You can pan the sound on the right or left using panning fader right under the fader, below the panning fader, you can find the MUTE button which you can mute audio channel output. Beside the Wave level fader you will see the slider marked with output 1,2 and 3,4.
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Page 17: The Fx Panel
The FX panel controls the effects and effect paths of the WAMI BOX. You can use it to control and route the reverb, chorus, equalizer and V space effects. This window will be appeared when you click FX Panel button in the basic Mixer window. - Page 18 Controls SEND level of Wave channels to REVERB and CHORUS effects. As you can see the arrows under it signal routes to Reverb and/or Chorus effect. Using level knob, you can set desired amount of SEND level. You can also switch channel mode with the switch located on the bottom of the section between FX(2 channel mode and 4channel mode).
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Page 19: The Virtual Channels
You can open Virt. Channel window by clicking Virt.Channel button from the basic Mixer window. Select desired channel number from virtual channel selecting window which coloured in sky-blue, and adjust the levels. 1. Volume Adjust the audio channel volume of matched virtual channel that selected at the box above the sliders. -
Page 20: The Audio In
Cliking “Audio In“ button on the Mixer window calls up following window that is used for input level adjusting and effect return value such as Echo, Reverb and Chorus. 1. VOLUME Controls input level of the incoming signal through the input port of WaMi Box. 2. -
Page 21: Setmanager
You can use WaMi Box as a sound module by uploading soundfont set with Setmanager. Setmanager consists with several sections. You can check the card information at the top of the window. Also usage of built in RAM status is showed. Current MIDI Soundsets are indicated and you can MUTE or SOLO desired soundest. - Page 22 Priority number by clicking blue button by the number. The Soundset with higher priority number will be played while there are more than one set of soundset is loaded. 5. Load Select desired sound set number in the “Current MIDI soundsets” window and click Load button, now you can select and load a soundset at your choice.
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Page 23: The Signal Paths Of The Wami Box
In order to cater for the many options of the Audio System WAMI BOX whilst maintaining compatibility with DOS games, a number of large-scale integrated circuits have been used in the sound c ard; these perform their own special tasks according to the signal path. -
Page 24: Wami Box Applications
With its many features, WaMi Box has many applications in audio and music production. While you may find the set up that best suits your needs, the basic system set up provided below can serve as a guideline. In this set up, WaMi Box is used as a stand alone demo production workstation. If you are on the road or need to create a demo quickly, all you need to do is plug in the keyboard controller and/or a microphone. -
Page 25: To Record And Playback Midi
Select the FX button on the basic Mixer window. In this mode, you will have reverb and chorus effects send on all sources, as well as the program graphic equalizer. T O R E C O R D A N D P L A Y B A C K M I D I 1. -
Page 26: To Playback Audio
3. Click the INPUT SELECTOR on WaMi Box front panel repeatedly to select the input source (coaxial, optical, line in or microphone). 4. The input source selection y ou make is routed to INPUT channel on the WaMi Mixer. In your audio recording software, select a track and designate the input source WaMi Box Synth Record. -
Page 27: Advanced Connections
3. Line Out 3 and 4 to outboard signal processor/effect box (Line Out 3 and 4 serves as effects/aux sends). You can also use Line out 3 and 4 as additional bus to multitrack tape recorder. Output Advanced Connections CD-Recorder Mixer/ATR Output Input... -
Page 28: Applications
WaMi Box supports various drivers so it can be work with several applications. Here we will show you few of sample setting. 1. CUBASIS (ASIO 2.0 driver) Cubasis is a hard-disk recording/sequencing software. It is a smaller version of CUBASE, but they are very similar in setup. It supports ASIO 2.0 driver for faster digital audio data processing. - Page 29 If you click “ASIO Control Panel” button right under the ASIO driver selection window, ASIO setup window will appears as above. You can select either 2ch Mode or 4ch Mode here and for the recording you should check “Use record”. Also you can adjust Buffersize in this window.
- Page 30 3. Wave Lab 4. Soundforge...
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Page 31: Other Applications For Wami Box
WaMiBox as a Digital Signal Converter When you connect any digital input source to WaMiBox, you immediately get the converted signal in all outputs. For example, if you connect a signal from your CD player to the COAXIAL S/PDIF input on the WaMiBox, you will have OPTICAL S/PDIF output of the same signal, as well as the analog signal on the LINE OUT 1 and 2. -
Page 32: Midi Implementation
Various features of the WaMi Box can be also controlled by NRPN MIDI messages as follows : NRPN# Power-up Description High/Low Default 3700H Equalizer Low band (bass) 0=-12dB, 40H=0dB, 7FH=+12dB 60H (+6dB) 3701H Equalizer Med Low band 0=-12dB, 40H=0dB, 7FH=+12dB 40H (0dB) 3702H Equalizer Med High band... -
Page 33: Dmidi I
COMPA MIDI HEX CODE DESCRIPTION TIBILIT MESSAGE Midi channel n(0-15) note ON #kk(1-127), velocity vv(1- NOTE ON 9nH kk vv MIDI 127). vv=0 means NOTE OFF NOTE OFF 8nH kk vv Midi channel n(0-15) note OFF #kk(1-127), vv is don’t care. MIDI Pitch bend as specified by bh|bl (14 bits) Maximum swing is PITCH BEND... - Page 34 NRPN 1ArrH BnH 63H 1AH 62H rr 06H vv Level of drum instrument note rr (vv=00 to 7FH) NRPN 1CrrH BnH 63H 1CH 62H rr 06H vv Pan of drum instrument note rr (40H = middle) NRPN 1DrrH BnH 63H 1DH 62H rr 06H vv Reverb send level of drum instrument note rr (vv=00 to 7FH) NRPN 1ErrH BnH 63H 1EH 62H rr 06H vv...
- Page 35 20H vv xx F7H F0H 41H 00H 42H 12H 40H 2nH SYSEX Mod pitch control (-24,+24 semitone) (default = 40H) 00H vv xx F7H F0H 41H 00H 42H 12H 40H 2nH SYSEX Mod tvf cutoff control (default = 40H) 01H vv xx F7H F0H 41H 00H 42H 12H 40H 2nH SYSEX Mod Amplitude control (-100%-+100%) (default=40H)