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    E260 R CMI8330 ISA Audio USER’S MANUAL USER’S MANUAL Copyright © 1998 ASUST eK COMPUTER INC. Al1 Rights Reserved. Contents A. Audio Driver First T ime Installation ...................................................................... i B. Audio Utilities CMI8330 Audio Rack ......................................................................[...]

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    ii ASUS CMI8330 User ’ s Manual First T ime Installation When starting W indows 95 (OSR2.0), W indows 98 or W indows NT 4.0, the operating system will detect that you have a new PCI Multimedia Device, then an Update Device Driver W izard screen will appear . ( See your support CD disc for the drivers and utilities.) If W indows does not automatic[...]

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    ASUS CMI8330 User’ s Manual 1 CMI8330 Audio Rack CMI8330 Audio Rack enables you to take advantage of your computer ’ s audio capabilities with all of the controls conveniently in one compact space. Y ou can play audio CDs, wave files (.W A V and .AUD formats), and MIDI files (.MID and .RMI formats). W ith the multisource Audio Mixer , you can b[...]

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    ASUS CMI8330 User’ s Manual 2 Control Center Control Center controls which parts of the CMI8330 Audio Rack are displayed. Y ou can display or hide any part of the CMI8330 Audio Rack you choose, custom- izing its appearance to suit your needs or desires. Controls displays or hides CD Player . displays or hides MIDI Player . displays or hides W A V[...]

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    ASUS CMI8330 User’ s Manual 3 B. Audio Utilities B. Audio Utilities CD Player CD Player If you have a CD-ROM drive, you can play audio CDs using CD Player . Check your hardware manual about setting up your CD audio hardware and drivers. CD Player uses intelligent CD playlist management: CD Player maintains a record of each CD you play . It rememb[...]

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    ASUS CMI8330 User’ s Manual 4 B. Audio Utilities MIDI Player MIDI Player enables you to play MIDI files with the .MID or .RMI file extensions. These MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files can be produced by se- quencer programs and then played back using MIDI Player . Y ou can also mix MIDI files with other audio sources. Y ou can also[...]

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    ASUS CMI8330 User’ s Manual 5 W A VE Player W A VE Player enables you to play , record, and compress sound as .W A V files. The .W A V files use PCM, which is a W indows audio file format. Files are written di- rectly to your hard disk as you record, enabling you to record very lar ge files. Y our only limitation is the amount of free space on yo[...]

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    ASUS CMI8330 User’ s Manual 6 B. Audio Utilities B. Audio Utilities Mixer Mixer Mixer has two control modes: V olume Contr ol mode (top) and Recording Con- trol mode (bottom). These modes show and let you use the output (V olume) and input (Recording) level controls. In addition, Mixer provides controls for output loudness ( Loud ), 3D Surround s[...]