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Version 1.3

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Certified to comply with the limits for a Class B computing device
according to Subpart J or Part 15 of FCC rules. See instructions if
interference to radio reception is suspected.

FCC WARNING

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference
in a residential installation.

This device complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful
interference and, (2) this device must accept any interference received,
including interference that may cause undesired operation.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a
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interference by one or more of the following measures:

* Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
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* Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to
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In order for an installation of this product to maintain compliance with
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connection of any devices external to this product.

Hardware/Software Contents

1. Introduction
1.1 Product Overview
1.2 Product Features
1.3 3D Surround Sound
1.4 What is SPDIF IN/OUT ?
1.5 What is Plug and Play ISA Standards ?
1.6 Wave-Table Upgrade Board
2. Installation of the Audio Excel PnP 310
2.1 The Audio Excel PnP 310 Jumper Setting Description
2.2 DOS and Windows 3.1 Applications Installation
2.3 DOS Utilities Installation only
2.4 Set DOS environment variables for Sound Blaster compatible
3. Utilities Software
3.1 CMINIT
3.2 CMMIX
3.3 CMTEST
3.4 Other DOS Utilities
4. Installation of Windows 95
4.1 Installing the Windows 95 driver
4.2 Un-installing the Windows 95 driver
4.3 Software Wavetable
4.3.1 Install drivers
4.3.2 Uninstall drivers
4.4 Install DOS drivers under Windows 95 DOS
4.5 About Full Duplex :
4.5.1 How to test the Full-Duplex function of Audio Excel PnP 310
(PLAY and RECORD at same time) ?
4.5.2 Prepared for recording.
4.6 Dual Mixer
5. Installation of Windows NT 4.0
6. Windows Applications(Audio Rack)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 System Mixer
6.3 MIDI Player, Wave Player, and CD Player
7. Questions & Answers

Section 1. Introduction

1.1 Product Overview
The Audio Excel PnP 310 is a stereo 16 bit PnP sound card. It is compatible
with Sound Blaster 16 and Microsoft Windows Sound System. Especially it
supports Plug and Play function for all interface. The Audio Excel PnP 310
also supports MPU-401 interface for Wave Table Synthesis upgrade and
supports 3D surround sound function. What we provide at the side of sound
card are line-in jack, micro-phone jack, audio output jack, and a 15 pin
D-SUB multiplexed joystick/MIDI connector.
If your PC motherboard BIOS supports Plug and Play (PnP) function, while
PC booting, the motherboard PnP BIOS will locate I/O resources for all
interfaces automatically to avoid I/O conflict. But, all of your interface
cards using I/O resources must support PnP function. Otherwise, I/O
conflict still occurs at sometimes due to PnP BIOS cannot find the
interface card which does not support PnP function.

1.2 Product Features
Special Features
� ISA bus Plug and Play (PnP)
� device support : WSS, MPU401, GAME PORT, SB16
� 3D surround sound
� Full duplex playback and recording
� Support Windows 95 and Window NT 4.0
� Auto hardware switching mode between WSS and SB without program setting

Compatibility
� Windows Sound System
� AdLib/ Sound Blaster 16/PRO/2.0
� MPU-401 UART MIDI
� Wave Table Synthesis
� Meets and exceeds Multimedia PC Level 2 Specifications

Digitized Audio
16 bit stereo 44KHz sampling rate voice playback/recording
Full duplex playback and recording

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
Software adjustable volume

SPDIF(IN/OUT)
Support 44.1K digital audio IN/OUT

FM Music Synthesizer
OPL3 FM synthesizer (4 operators)
Up to 15 melody sounds and 5 rhythm sounds (20 voices)

MIDI Interface
MPU-401 MIDI UART mode

Game Port
Standard IBM PC joystick/game port (dual channel)
External MIDI port for external MIDI keyboard

Wave Table Synthesis
MPU-401 interface for Wave Table Synthesis (optional)
3D Surround Sound
Built-in 3D Surround sound (software control ON/OFF)
Software configurable I/O Address, IRQ, DMA channel for all interface
(Jumperless)
Software Wavetable
128 instruments and percussion sets
Up to 32 dynamically allocated voices
Hardware mixing: MIDI and Wave
Patch editor

1.3 3D Surround Sound
Our 3D surround function takes any ordinary stereo signal as input and
produces an output signal with dramatically widened stereo imaging and
enhanced realism.
And requires no extra speakers or special encoding of input signals.
You can turn 3D sound on or off by program CMMIX.COM at DOS. At
Windows you also can turn it on or off by Audio Rack mixer. And you can
run Windows applications DEMO3D to test 3D surround sound functions.

1.4 What is SPDIF IN/OUT ?
SPDIF is a digital audio IN/OUT standard. It support a non-distortion
stereo 44.1K 16bit digital audio transmission. You can get digital audio
through SPDIF IN from CD-Audio digital output or the other digital audio
output. You also can output digital audio through SPDIF OUT to those
equipment's that accepted SPDIF IN format.
The Audio Excel PnP 310 SPDIF IN function is design for non-distortion
digital recording from digital audio output of CD-ROM (or other
equipments), not for playing from these equipments. Therefore, if you want
to record from your CD-ROM digital audio output through Audio Excel PnP 310
SPDIF IN, please connect CD-ROM analog and digital audio cable to sound
card. Make sure that volume of CD(analog audio) in mixer is ON and volume
of Dig-CD(digital audio) is OFF. Then you can playing from analog audio and
recording from digital audio for the best effect. If you turn on the volume
of Dig-CD(digital audio) in mixer, due to some CD-ROM drive design,there is
noise input during CD-ROM door open or close. Besides, SPDIF can not adjust
volume. So we recommended you to follow the steps that describe above.

1.5 What is Plug and Play ISA Standards ?
The ISA bus architecture allows allocation of I/O address spaces, DMA
channels, and interrupt levels among multiple ISA cards. However, the ISA
interface has no defined hardware or software mechanism for allocating
these resources. As a result, configuration of ISA cards is typically done
with jumpers that change the decode maps for I/O spaces and steer the DMA
and interrupt signals to different pins on the bus. Further, system
configuration files may need to be updated to reflect these changes. Users
typically resolve sharing conflicts by referring to documentation provided
by card manufacturer. For the average user , this configuration process can
be difficult and frustrating. A Plug and Play-compliant system can identify
the Plug and Play ISA cards and the resources they use, then program these
resources so they do not conflict. The conflict-resolution scheme used on
Plug and Play ISA cards essentially puts all cards 'to sleep', then reads
the card identification and the information about what the card can do and
the resources it requires. This information can include what resources are
programmable and over what ranges they can be programmed.
With this information, the system can configure the card in a way that
prevents conflicts with other cards in the ISA bus.

1.6 Wave-Table Upgrade Board
For saving one I/O port and one IRQ channel, we disable MPU-401 MIDI
device as default value. If you want to output by wave-table (MPU-401 MIDI
device): In DOS (also Windows 3.1), please run CMINIT.EXE to enable MPU-401
MIDI device.
In Windows 3.1, please add MPU-401 device drivers at first. Click on
"Drivers" icon in "Control Panel" of "Main" group. Click "Add" button and
select "ROLAND MPU-401" to add device drivers. After reboot, please click
on "MIDI Mapper"icon in "Control Panel" of "Main" group. Select item
'MPU-401 MIDI' in 'Name' and click 'Close' button.
In Windows 95 system, please run En_Disable MPU-401 MIDI device program
(MDEVSET.EXE) to enable MPU-401 MIDI device. After reboot,
click "Start" button, and then click "Control Panel" at "Settings" Menu.
Double click on the "Multimedia" icon and click "MIDI". In "Single
Instrument", select "C-Media inc. External MIDI (MPU-401)" item.

Section 2. Installation of the Audio Excel PnP 310

2.1 The Audio Excel PnP 310 Jumper Setting Description
Table 2.1 The Audio Excel PnP 310 Jumper Setting Description

JPx FunctionJumper Setting
===== ================== ============================
�� Power Amplifier
��
JP1 Output select ---------------------------
�� Line-out
��
----- ------------------ ----------------------------
JP2 Microphone type open normal Microphone
short special Microphone

Attention : If your sound card doesn't have power amplifier built-in,
there is no JP1 jumper to set.

Table 2.2 Connector function

Connector Function
=========== ====================================================
J1 Connect Wave Table Upgrade Board (optional)
J2 Connect with joystick or MIDI cable
J3 Connect Panasonic CD-ROM Audio output
J4 Connect IDE/Sony CD-ROM Audio output
LINE Connect with the audio output(line-out) from stereo
MIC Connect with microphone(mono)
SPK Output to speaker or audio-in of stereo

2.2 DOS and Windows 3.1 Applications Installation
Please make sure that your hard disk has 4MB free spaces at least. Insert
the Video Excel Utility Drivers CD title into CD-ROM drive X:.
1. Change to CD-ROM drive X: then change to the subdirectory
"\SOUND\CMI\8330\DOSWIN31" at DOS prompt, type in INSTALL [Enter].
2. Type DOS utilities path that you want to install.
3. Type the path of Windows 3.1 when asking Windows path.
4. Program will expand file to path that you specify.
5. After expanding DOS utilities, program CMINIT.EXE will be executed and
showing current value of all I/O. Please adjust I/O to avoiding
conflict, if you were in non-PnP mode. Press ESC key to exit.
6. Mixer program CMMIX.COM will be executed too. You can adjust default
volume to your favorite value. Press ESC key to exit.
7. Install program will continue execute testing program CMTEST.EXE to
check output of sound card.
8. Program will launch Windows 3.1 to install device drivers and
applications.
9. Please restart PC after installation completed.

P.S.:
1. After installation, if you want to change I/O of Windows device
drivers, please execute file CMINIT.EXE to adjust item 'WSS I/O',
'WSS IRQ' and 'WSS DMA'.
2. If you only install DOS utilities before, run 'WSETUP.EXE' in disk
root directory to install Windows applications.

2.3 DOS Utilities Installation only
To install DOS utilities only, please follow steps that described above.
Press ENTER key when asking Windows path for none.

2.4 Set DOS environment variables for Sound Blaster compatible
The Audio Excel PnP 310 is compatible with Sound Blaster, so you can
execute programs which can run with it. Some games or applications need
read hardward setting from DOS environment variables 'BLASTER', CMINIT.EXE
will automatically add to AUTOEXEC.BAT for you. You can check value in
AUTOEXEC.BAT with CMINIT.EXE shown. It like below :
SET BLASTER = A2x0 Iy Dz Hv T4

x = 2 or 4 (This is voice(SB) I/O address number)
y = 5 or 7 or 9 or 10 (This is voice(SB) IRQ number)
z = 0 or 1 or 3 (This is voice(SB) DMA number)
v = 5 or 7 (This is voice(SB) 16 BIT DMA number)

Section 3. Utilities Software
It is always a good idea to make backup copy of your original software.
Make a backup copy of your "Audio Excel PnP 310 software disk" now and
store your original diskettes in a safe place.
NOTE: In the following paragraphs, Utilities are assumed to be installed
in default Drive:\Path directory, which is C:\CM8330.

3.1 CMINIT
The CMINIT.EXE can change the Audio Excel PnP 310's I/O address, DMA
channel, IRQ channel, Game port and MPU-401 MIDI port without jumper
setting. In main menu, you can use arrow keys to select items that you
want to change. The sub window will display the I/O you can select. If any
PCI or PnP card use this I/O , item will gray to avoiding conflict and
display the PnP card title that use it. In Windows 95, "DOS prompt" or
"shut down to DOS" are still in Windows 95 protected mode, changing I/O by
user are not expected. So program will display current value of all I/O,
called "status" mode. At DOS prompt, type
CMINIT [Enter]
You can see all I/O settings in the main Menu.
WSS Base I/O Address Select WSS mode base I/O address
WSS IRQ Channel Select WSS mode IRQ channel
WSS DMA Channel Select WSS mode DMA channel
Voice I/O Address Select SB mode base I/O address
Voice IRQ Channel Select SB mode IRQ channel
Voice DMA Channel Select SB mode DMA channel
Voice 16bit DMA Channel Select SB mode 16-bit DMA transfer channel
MPU-401 MIDI Device Enable or Disable MIDI device
MPU-401 I/O Address Select MIDI base I/O address
MPU-401 IRQ Channel Select MIDI IRQ channel
Game Port I/O Address Display Game Port base I/O address
FM(OPL3) I/O Address Display FM(OPL3) base I/O address

Using arrow key to move to the item that you want to change and press
[ENTER] key to execute. To quit or save change, press [ESC] key.
Program will automatically update file "AUTOEXEC.BAT" if selecting "save
setting & exit". Otherwise, it will remain unchanged. Once you save the
change, a new I/O setting will be got ever since.

P.S.: The arguments after CMINIT in the file AUTOEXEC.BAT are updating
by file CMINIT.EXE.

3.2 CMMIX
CMMIX.COM is a mixer control program. At DOS prompt, type
CMMIX [Enter]
You can adjust the volumes of all channels or change recording channel.
etc.

Master MASTER volume control
FM FM music volume control
WAVE WAVE volume control
LINE-IN LINE-IN volume control
Ext. synth wave-table output volume control
Analog CD-IN Analog CD-Audio volume control
MIC Microphone volume control
3D SURROUND Enable/Disable 3D surround sound
LOUDNESS Enable/Disable output gain
SB Mixer emu. Enable/Disable SB mixer emulation
Recording Setup Recording gain and channel selection
Exit Save setting and exit to DOS

When exit this program, it will automatically update AUTOEXEC.BAT file for
next time reboot (power ON) initialization.

P.S.: We set default SB mixer emulation functions to disable. It fits to
most applications and games. If there is any applications using SB mixer
panning function to separate left and right sound channel, you can set
this functions to enable.

3.3 CMTEST
CMTEST.EXE checks the Audio Excel PnP 310 I/O address, IRQ channel, DMA
channel, and tests the Audio Excel PnP 310 hardware functionality
including synthesized music, voice playback and voice recording.

3.4 Other DOS Utilities
CMUTIL.EXE is an integrated voice utility program to help you create and
replay voice files.
CMORGANL.EXE program lets you play PC keyboard like an electronic organ.
There are 128 tones can be changed by pressing F1. Press F2 can play
MIDI file (*.MID).
CMPLAY.EXE lets you play voice file at DOS prompt. Voice is played in a
background process. You may specify optionally a foreground process
running at the same time when voice is playing.
CMREC.EXE lets you record voice into file at DOS prompt. Voice is recorded
in a background process. You may specify optionally a foreground process
running at the same time when voice is being recorded.
CMCDPLYR.EXE lets you play CD-Audio at DOS prompt. At DOS prompt,
type CMCDPLYR [Enter]
PLAYWAV.EXE lets you play wave file at DOS prompt. To run PLAYWAV,
at DOS prompt, type in PLAYWAV filename [Enter]
example: PLAYWAV DEMO.WAV

Section 4. Installation of Windows 95

ATTENTION:
1. We recommend that you have already installed Microsoft Windows 95
before installing Audio Excel PnP 310. And you didn't install any
other sound card device drivers in your current system.
2. Please make sure your PC BIOS PnP AUTO CONFIG is set to ENABLE, if
your PC BIOS supports PnP function.
3. If you got any problem with installing Windows 95, please contact your
local Microsoft's agent.

4.1 Installing the Windows 95 driver
Steps of installing Windows 95 driver of Audio Excel PnP 310:
1. Insert the Video Excel Utility Drivers CD title into CD-ROM drive X:.
2. Turn on the computer, and enter into Microsoft Windows 95.
3. You will see a windows prompt like this:
"New Hardware Found
CMI8330 Audio Adapter
Windows has found new hardware and is installing the software for it"
, then the dialog box shown.
4. Select "Driver form disk provided by hardware manufacturer", click
"OK".
5. When system requests for Audio Excel PnP 310's Windows 95
installation disk.Please make sure the path "X:\SOUND\CMI\8330\WIN95"
is point to the drive that installation disk is in, and click "OK".
6. Now, system is installing PnP device drivers automatically. After a
while, system finished installation. Then enter Windows 95 main screen.
You will hear a wave playing from the system if you have installed
speakers.
7. Now, you have already installed Audio Excel PnP 310 on Microsoft
Windows 95 successfully.

If you want to install Windows applications of Audio Excel PnP 310, Please
follow the following steps:
1. Click "start" key, Select "Run".
2. Please make sure your Video Excel Utility Drivers CD title is in
CD-ROM X:.
3. Please Key in the path name of Windows applications install program as
"X:\SOUND\CMI\8330\WIN95\SETUP.EXE"
4. Click "OK" to start the procedure of installation, and follow questions
to finish installation.
5. Shut down Windows 95 system and reboot your system, when all of
application software have been installed.

Important Note: As we recommended in this manual before, you should install
Win95 to your PC system before you installed Audio Excel PnP 310. If you do
the installation VICE VERSA, then, the drivers of Audio Excel PnP 310
cannot be installed automatically and "Device Manager" in Win95 will detect
Audio Excel PnP 310 as "Other devices", an "?CMI8330 Audio Adapter" will
also appear on the screen. If this happens, the user should see the
Un-installing the Windows 95 driver section below.

4.2 Un-installing the Windows 95 driver
1. Click "start" key, select "Run".
2. Inserts your Video Excel Utility Drivers CD title into CD-ROM X:.
3. Please Key in the path name as "X:\SOUND\CMI\8330\WIN95\UINSTDRV.EXE",
and Click "OK".
4. Select the "Uninstall" button, the setup will do an automatic cleaning
up of the Windows 95 Audio Excel PnP 310 registry entries.
5. Shutdown and turn off your PC.
6. Turn PC on, Win95 will now detect new hardware, create an information
database, and proceed with the installation of CMI8330 device drivers.

4.3 Software Wave-Table
4.3.1 Install drivers
Audio Excel PnP 310 Software Wave-Table device drivers setup flow:
1. Click "start" key, select "Run".
2. Inserts your Video Excel Utility Drivers CD title into CD-ROM X:.
3. Please Key in the path name as "X:\SOUND\CMI\8330\SOFTMIDI\SETUP.EXE",
and Click "OK".
4. Select the "Install" button, the setup program will automatically
install software wave-table drivers into Windows 95.
5. Press "YES" button when asking reboot system.

After Software Wave-Table drivers installation completed. If you want to
use Software Wave-Table drivers as MIDI output device, please open
"Multimedia" icon in "Control Panel" selecting "MIDI" page, and click on
"C-Media SoftMidi Driver" then select "OK" button to confirm.
Because of Software Wave-Table output use one wave device to output, for
Software Wave-Table can play with wave file at same time, We switch FM
channel of mixer to output second wave source. That is if you play MIDI
file (Software Wave-Table) and play another wave file at same time, you
must adjust wave or FM channel of mixer to control volume.

Note: Software Wave-Table Driver only supports Windows 95 system and
will spend more CPU time when play MIDI files. For more finest executing
performance, we recommended that use Pentium CPU and 16M DRAM(or above).

4.3.2 Uninstall drivers
After drivers install completed, setup program will add a "C-Media Soft
MIDI Driver" group to "START" menu. If you want to remove software wave
-table deivce drivers, please excuting "Uninstall drivers" program in
"C-Media Soft MIDI Driver" group.

4.4 Install DOS drivers under Windows 95 DOS
If you enter DOS and executing applications or games by press "Alt-F5" or
"F8" key before Windows 95 system booting. You need to install DOS drivers.
Please run "INSTALL.EXE" program in subdirectory of
"X:\SOUND\CMI\8330\DOSWIN31" driver CD title( Refer user manual section
2.3). Please do not specify Windows path when program request. You need
only DOS drivers.
If you just running applications and games in Windows 95 system or shut
down to DOS, you don't have to install DOS drivers.

4.5 About Full Duplex :

4.5.1 How to test the Full-Duplex function of Audio Excel PnP 310
(PLAY and RECORD at same time) ?
1. Press "Start" key.
2. Select "Programs" "Accessories" "Multimedia" and press "Media Player".
3. Please click item of "Device" and click "Sound".
4. Press the left key of your mouse.
5. Select "The Microsoft Sound", and press "Open".
6. Click item of "Edit" and "Options".
7. Please click "Auto Rewind" and "Auto Repeat" , then "OK".
8. Press play key of "Media Player".
At this moment , you can hear the sound from "The Microsoft Sound" .

4.5.2 Prepared for recording.
1. Click "Start" key.
2. Moved the mouse cursor to "Programs".
3. Then move the cursor to "CMI8330 Audio Rack".
4. Select item "Audio Rack" and click.
5. Now you can see the Audio Rack program shown on your screen.
6. Set recording channel to "Wave" from mixer program.
7. Click the red spot on wave player to start recording.
8. Now you can see the recording function works fine here.

Note: If there is no problem when playing WAV in "Media Player" and
recording WAV in "Audio Rack", then your Full-Duplex sound system should
work OK now.

4.6 Dual Mixer :
Because of we provided two wave devices WSS and SB16 in Windows 95. If
you use Windows 95 mixer to control volume and recording gain, you must
select device that match to playback or record device in "Multimedia" of
"Control Panel". For example, If playback and recording device is Windows
Sound System in "Multimedia" of "Control Panel", you must select "Sound
System Mixer" in "Mixer Device" of "Properties" of "Options" to control.
We recommended you to use mixer that we provided(audio rack), you don't
have to select mixer device.

Section 5. Installation of Windows NT 4.0

ATTENTION:
1. We recommend that you have already installed Windows NT 4.0 before
installing Audio Excel PnP 310. And you didn't install any other sound
card device drivers in your current system.
2. Please make sure your PC BIOS PnP AUTO CONFIG is set to ENABLE, if
your PC BIOS supports PnP function.
3. If you got any problem with installing Windows NT 4.0, please contact
your local Windows agent.

Please follow the following steps to install Audio Excel PnP 310 device
drivers into Windows NT 4.0.
1. Click "Start" button, move highlight bar to "Setting", select
"Control Panel".
2. Double click "Multimedia" icon.
3. Select "Devices" page and press "Add" button.
4. Select "Unlisted or Updated Driver" item in "List of Drivers".
5. Specify path that NT drivers is in (ex. X:\SOUND\CMI\8330\NT40).
6. Select "C-Media CM8330" item and press "OK" button.
7. Select proper value of I/O.
8. Press "OK" button.
9. Restart system when asking.
10. Now, you have already installed Audio Excel PnP 310 on Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 successfully.

If you want to use MPU-401 MIDI device, please follow the steps describe
above. But in steps 4, select "MPU-401 MIDI compatible driver" item.
Specify the path of Windows NT 4.0 CD-ROM directory \I386, system will add
MPU-401 MIDI device for you.

Section 6. Windows Applications(Audio Rack)

6.1 Introduction
Audio Rack lets you control over your PC's audio functions through a user
interface as simple to use as a home stereo system.
Audio Rack consists of several major components:

Control Center: Controls the display of Audio Rack's components.

MIDI Player: Plays MIDI music files. Lets you create song playlists
and play the song files.

Wave Player: Records and plays digital audio (wave) files. Lets you
create wave file playlists and playback the wave files.

CD Player: Plays standard audio CDs. Allows you to create playlist
collections of CD tracks (songs).

System Mixer: Sets the volume level of your audio inputs and outputs.

Showing or Hiding Audio Rack Components
To remove or add a component from display, click on the component's button
on the Control Center's Button Bar or toggle it off.

6.2 System Mixer
System Mixer lets you control all audio output and input levels.

Volume Control: Clicking on this button allows you to use the output
level controls.

Recording Control: Clicking on this button allows you to use the input
level controls.

Input and Output Level Sliders and Buttons: For each input or output
signal, a control slider controls the loudness, a horizontal slider
controls balance between the two speakers, and the mute button temporarily
stops input or output without changing slider positions.

Control types and names vary. Some common types are listed below:
Vol: The master control for all outputs. The strength of an output
signal is determined by both the Vol slider and the slider for
the individual output. To affect all outputs, move the Vol
slider. To change the output of an individual output type, move
its slider.

Line-in: Controls the audio hardware's Line In or Line Out levels. Line
In might be for an externally attached cassette player, e.g.

Mic: Controls the microphone input level.

Wave: Controls wave (voice) playback or record levels.

FM: Controls the FM music play or record level.

Synth: Controls the external MIDI synthesis(wave table) play or record
level.

CD: Controls the CD drive audio output level.

Dig-CD: Turn on or off the CD drive digital audio output.

3D Snd: Toggle the 3D surround sound effect.

Loud: Toggle the output loudness.

Mute Buttons: Toggle between muting and resuming the output volume. A
button with a lit LED is resuming the output, while a LED
not lit is muted. Several output signals can usually be
enabled at once.

6.3 MIDI Player, Wave Player, and CD Player

CD Player (above, similar to Wave Player and MIDI Player)

Sel (or Trk) field: If you have multiple selections in your playlist,
this shows the number of the current selection or
CD track.

Current File or Track: The name of the current MIDI file, wave audio file,
or CD track.

Total Length field: displays the total length of files or tracks in
minutes and seconds.

Current Time field: displays the current time of files or tracks in
minutes and seconds when playback or recording.

Please refer to help screen for more detail button functions description.
(click on help "?" button on player)

Section 7. Questions & Answers

� Q1: Can we keep the PnP function of Audio Excel PnP 310 even on a
Non-PnP motherboard?

A1: Yes, but you have to use Win 95 and install the drivers properly.

� Q2: When Audio Excel PnP 310 and other NON-PnP interface cards are
installed on a same motherboard, anything we need to do during the
installation?

A2: In this case, please install the NON-PnP cards first and make sure
that the cards work normally (no matter under DOS or Win 95), then
install Audio Excel PnP 310. Thus, the motherboard can reserve the
I/O resources for the NON-PnP cards first and afterwards makes the
installation of PnP card easier.
If there is any conflict happen still, you have two way to go. One
is to adjust NON-PnP device driver setting and jumper on the card.
Another is to click "System" icon at "Control Panel" group, press
"Device Manager" and find the "sound,video and game controllers"
item. Double-click on it, there are interrogation mark shown in
front of conflicted devices. Double-click on these devices, press
"Resources" and clear "Use automatic settings", choose lastest item
of "Setting base on:" and press "Change setting..." button then
select a no conflict value and press OK button. Make sure all items
of "resource type" are not conflicted. Reboot Windows 95 system,
conflict will disappear.

� Q3: Why some games auto-detect the sound card to WSS mode, but I/O can
not fit to the current setting?

A3: Windows Sound System (WSS) supports registers for applications
(game) to set IRQ and DMA channel. Auto-detect function of some
games uses these registers to set IRQ and DMA channel by itself.
Because our sound card supports Plug and Play functions, I/O
resource must be allocated by PnP BIOS or Windows 95. Allocating
I/O resource by applications will cause I/O conflict with other
interface cards. Users should decide sound card's mode by
themselves.

� Q4: Why there are repeat sound playing while Win 3.1/95 starts?

A4: This is because some I/O(IRQ�BDMA) conflicts between adapters.
Please adjust I/O resources of all interface cards, especially
non-PnP cards.

� Q5: What is "Full-Duplex"?

A5: "Full-Duplex" can manage "Recording" and "Playback" (WAV) at the
same time. This function makes the two-way dialogue under Internet
IPHONE possible.

� Q6: Does "Full Duplex" function of Audio Excel PnP 310 work in
Windows NT/3.1?

A6: We're sorry that "Full Duplex" can only work in Win 95 at the
moment.

� Q7: Why the person on the other end of IPHONE cannot hear my voice?

A7:
1. Make sure you have set the "Recording Control" under "Mixer" of
"Audio Rack" to "Mic". Then use the "Mixer" and "Wave Player" of
Audio Rack to test whether MIC can record and playback normally.
Finally use the MIC test function in IPHONE to assure the volume
table of the MIC will re-act.
2. Please set the "recording device" and "playback device" under
IPHONE to "WSS(534)".
3. Set the "record and playback" under Win 95 to WSS(534) too.

� Q8: I've already setup "Full-Duplex" in IPHONE, but why the sound card
still works like "Half-Duplex"?

A8: Please note that there must be Full Duplex's on both sides of IPHONE
users then Full Duplex can work properly.

� Q9: Why there are no sound output during play MPEG file by MPEG card?

A9: Maybe Line-out of MPEG card didn't connect to Line-in of sound card
or Line-in volume be muted in mixer.

� Q10: Why there are no sound on MIDI play in Windows?

A10: Perhaps you don't have wave-table synthesizer, but your MIDI device
set to MPU-401.
Please check by following procedure:
1. Click "Start", "setting", "control panel".
2. Double click "Multimedia".
3. Select item "MIDI".
4. Check the informat of "Single instrument', in normal case, it
has: "C-Media inc. External MIDI (MPU-401)"
"OPL2/OPL3 FM Synthesis" (Default device for MIDI)
5. Make sure, you are setting to "OPL2/OPL3 FM Synthesis"

� Q11: How can we execute DOS Games in Win 95?

A11: You can execute DOS Games in Win 95 by three means:
1. DOS Prompt - Because this is under Win 95 protect mode, some
S/W's cannot be executed 100%.
2. Shut down to DOS - Most of the DOS Games can be executed.
3. Press "ALT-F5" or "F8" when boot-up - 100% DOS Games can be
executed.(Refer user manual section 4.2)

� Q12: Why detect sound card to half-duplex when MS NetMeeting setup?

A12: Because of our sound card use two wave devices when use full-duplex
function. You must select playback device to "Sound System Playback"
and set record device to "SB16 Record" when setup.

Filename	Size	Readme	O.S.	Description
307w95.exe	916KB			Win 95 drivers for the AV307 Audio excel sound card
308w95.exe	913KB			Win 95 drivers for the AV308 Audio excel sound card
309dos.exe	1052KB			DOS drivers for the AV309 Audio Excel sound card
309nt3.exe	129KB			NT 3.x drivers for the AV309 Audio Excel sound card
309w31.exe	1892KB			Win 3.x drivers for the AV309 Audio Excel sound card
309w95.exe	555KB			Windows 95 drivers for the AV309 Audio Excel sound card
310dos.exe	704KB			DOS drivers for the AV310 Audio Excel sound card
310w95.exe	2449KB			Win 95 drivers for the AV310 Audio Excel sound card
310w98.exe	2458KB			Win98 drivers for the AV310 Audio Excel sound card
500dos.exe	418KB			DOS drivers for the AV500 Audio Excel sound card
500os2.exe	155KB			OS/2 drivers for the AV500 Audio Excel sound card
500wdrv.exe	132KB			Win 3.x drivers for the AV500 Audio Excel sound card
530dos.exe	99KB			DOS drivers for the AV530 Audio Excel sound card
530nt4.exe	130KB			NT 4.0 drivers for the AV530 Audio Excel sound card
530w95.exe	6702KB			W95 drivers for the AV530 Audio Excel sound card
530w98.exe	6702KB			Win 98 drivers for the AV530 Audio Excel sound card
av300.exe	988KB			DOS - Win 3.x drivers for the AV300 Audio Excel sound card
av301.exe	207KB			DOS - Win 3.x drivers for the AV301 Audio Excel sound card
av302.exe	2162KB			DOS - Win 3.x drivers for the AV302 Audio Excel sound card
av303.exe	1701KB			DOS - Win 3.x drivers for the AV303 Audio Excel sound card
av305.exe	1221KB			DOS - Win 3.x OS/2 drivers for the AV305 Audio Excel sound card
av306.exe	1097KB			DOS - Win 3.x OS/2 drivers for the AV306 Audio Excel sound card
av307.exe	1078KB			DOS - Win 3.x OS/2 drivers for the AV307 Audio Excel sound card
av308.exe	1074KB			DOS - Win 3.x OS/2 drivers for the AV308 Audio Excel sound card
av310.zip	2222KB	av310.htm		Dos Windows Win 9X Audio Excel AV-310 PNP Software
av501.exe	1657KB			DOS - Win 3.x, Win 95, OS/2 drivers for the AV501 Audio Excel sound card

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