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│ WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!│
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│ When using the ATI Sound Drivers for Windows 3.1, you may experience │
│ extremely loud volumes when Window starts up. Set the hardware volume │
│ control (on the back of the Stereo■F/X card), to mid-position BEFORE │
│ running Windows to prevent this from occurring. │
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│Installing the STEREO F/X Drivers│
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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Please read the following directions carefully. │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
1) Under Microsoft Windows 3.1, go to the CONTROL PANEL in the MAIN group.
Open the DRIVERS icon.
2) If you have already loaded drivers for a SoundBlaster ("Creative Labs
Sound Blaster 1.0" or "Creative Labs Sound Blaster 1.5") or similar
device ("Media Vision Thunder Board"), they must first be removed.
If these drivers are not listed in the menu of existing drivers,
go to step 3. Otherwise, select the currently installed driver
(by clicking on the name) and then select the REMOVE button.
A message box will appear with an "Are You Sure?" query. Select YES.
A message box will appear with a "Restart Windows?" query. Select
RESTART NOW. Once Microsoft Windows 3.1 has restarted, return to the
CONTROL PANEL in the MAIN group. Again, open the DRIVERS icon.
3) Select the ADD button. A list of possible drivers will appear.
Select the Unlisted or Updated Driver option. It will ask you where
the new drivers are located. They are on the STEREO F/X driver
disk the INSTALL batch file created. Insert this disk into your floppy
drive and enter the name of your floppy drive (for example, type in
"A:" without the quotes). A new box should appear with a list of the two
drivers available on the disk. Click on the name ATI STEREO F/X Windows 3.1
Driver, then select the OK button. A message box may come up asking if you
want to use NEW or CURRENT drivers. Select the NEW option. The new driver
should install itself on your system, and automatically load the
ATI Windows 3.1 FM Sound Driver as well. A message box should pop up
confirming your card address and IRQ number. Click on the OK button.
Finally, a message button will pop up asking whether or not you want to
restart windows. Select RESTART NOW.
4) If you have had a Sound Blaster installed previous to installing
STEREO F/X, you will have a virtual device conflict. This is because
the Sound Blaster driver leaves it's virtual devices installed even
when you remove the Sound Blaster driver. To fix this problem you must
edit your system.ini file. Find the [386Enh] section of the system.ini
file. There you will find two lines:
device=vsbd.386
device=vadlib.386
If you remove these two lines from your system.ini file everything should
then work normally. You can re-enter Microsoft Windows 3.1.
5) The internal FM driver has been automatically loaded. This driver will
allow you to play MIDI files through the internal FM synthesizer.
However, the MIDI mapping must be properly set. In the CONTROL PANEL in
the MAIN group open the MIDI Mapper icon which should have appeared
automatically after installing the new drivers. If you have a default
setting or have previously loaded a Sound Blaster driver, some of the
MIDI mapper settings may no longer be valid, and an "incorrect settings"
error message may result. In the MIDI Mapper, select Setups and then
click on the NEW button. A message box will appear prompting you with a
name. Type in any name (for example "ATI MIDI MAP"). A MIDI Setup window
will appear. You must now select a valid Port Name for each MIDI channel.
This is done by clicking on the arrow button at the right of each
Port Name box. Three options should be shown in a menu. STEREO F/X MIDI
Driver will send the MIDI information of that channel out to the external
MIDI out connector (on the breakout box) which can be connected to an
external synthesizer. ATI FM will send the MIDI information to the
internal FM synthesizer. [None] will disable that channel. Do the
following:
a) if you want all information sent to an external synthesizer,
set each port to STEREO F/X MIDI Driver.
b) if you want all information sent to the internal FM synthesizer,
set each port to ATI FM.
c) if you want both, the Microsoft Windows 3.1 standard recommends
that you set channels 1 through 12 to the external MIDI device
(STEREO F/X MIDI Driver) and channels 13 through 16 to the internal
(ATI FM).
6) If you want to use MIDI input with a Windows program such as "Music Time"
you MUST run Windows in standard mode using the "WIN /S" command. MIDI
input will NOT work in 386 Enhanced mode unless you have a VERY fast
computer. To be safe always run Windows 3.1 in standard mode when using
MIDI input.
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│ Installing the new WinDAT │
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Go into Microsoft Windows 3.1, and in the PROGRAM MANAGER, select the
RUN option under the FILE banner. Use the BROWSE command or type in
directly the name of the install program (for example,
C:\SFX\WINDAT\INSTALL.EXE). Run this program. This should automatically
install WINDAT as well as a MIXER which will allow you to use the
enhanced mixer functions available with the new audio driver.
This mixer panel will also work in conjunction with any of the digital
audio or internal MIDI players that come with Microsoft Windows 3.1,
such as the MEDIA PLAYER and the SOUND RECORDER, or any of the warning
message sounds. Note that due to MCI restrictions, compressed VOC files
cannot be played under Microsoft Windows 3.1, but can still be played
under DOS applications. Note that the new WINDAT is backwards compatible
with Microsoft Windows 3.0. Just install it in the same way as specified
above.
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│ Installation Notes │
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1. If you are using EMM386 and are running the SFX (configuration)
program within Windows, there may be problems with the DMA play routines
if you have not specified enough DMA memory in your Windows setup.
Follow the instructions in the Windows error message and re-enter Windows.
The switch D=64 should also be added to the EMM386 line in your
CONFIG.SYS file.
2. If you choose not to use the default directory C:\SFX\ you will have
to change the default directories in the options menus of DOSDAT and
WinDAT the first time they are run.
3. Playing sound files with high sample rates requires a suitably fast
CPU and hard disk. On machines slower than a 12 megahertz '286, you
may have problems with 22.05 kHz STEREO and 44.1 kHz MONO. If your
machine is unable to keep up, the sound file will simply stop after
playing the initial segment. If you are experiencing this problem,
try slowing down the sample rate so your computer can keep up.
4. For the same reason you cannot play sound files at higher sample
rates directly from floppies, as floppy disks are simply not
fast enough to keep up with the audio. On a two floppy system you
can install the STEREO■F/X for playing games, but the full software
functionality will not be available.
5. When looking at audio parameters in WinDAT, remember
that these parameters reflect the setup of the sample as it was last
played or recorded, not what you are about to play or record. If you
change a parameter the display will not reflect that change until
you play or record it.
6. In WinDAT you must have twice the amount of disk space left on your
hard disk as the size of the sound file you are editing. This is due
to the requirements of the UNDO function. In general it is very easy
to eat up disk space while recording digital audio. If you are short on
space on your hard disk please keep this in mind.
ATI Technologies Inc.
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