User manual ASUS KGPE-D16

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Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. ii Contents Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -iii Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] You can drag each speaker or listener to a different relative position "virtually" using only your mouse. The Xonar D2 audio card will process it and virtualize each speaker position in real-time. The Subwoofer has no directional sounds, and hence can be moved only closer or further away. Reset all Speaker Shifter settings to the defaults. Click + to increase volume (move speakers closer); click ­ to decrease volume (move speakers further away) Make all speakers (except Subwoofer) rotate counterclockwise Make all speakers (except Subwoofer) rotate clockwise Manually drag and rotate all speakers (except Subwoofer) This is the default mode that allows you to manually drag each speaker or the listener with your mouse. 2 Drag speaker or listener 3 4 5 6 7 8 Reset Increase/decrease volume Counter-clockwise Clockwise Manual Rotation Manual Drag Mode 34 ASUS Xonar D2 6. 2. 6 Dolby Pro-Logic IIx is a 7. 1 surround upmixing technology and is widely used in home theater systems, TVs, game consoles, and car audio systems. It can expand stereo audio, such as MP3, CD, and TV programs into immersive 5. 1 or 7. 1channel surround. Dolby Pro-Logic IIx 3 5 4 1 2 No 1 Item Dolby Pro-Logic IIx enable/disable Music Mode Description 6 Click this check box to enable Dolby Pro-Logic IIx. Clicking the text bar will switch the right window to the Pro-Logic IIx page for manual adjustments. Music mode is the default mode for regular music playback. In this mode, you can adjust the Center Width and Dimension parameters. This parameter is used to set the spread of the center, mainly for the vocal signals of songs and music. Drag the scroll bar to the left to centralize the vocal signal. In addition, the Xonar D2 also provides a high-quality digital monitoring function for hearing the recorded audio from the speakers. You can also process the input signals with all playback sound effects such as Dolby and DTS technologies. 6. 3. 1 Playback Volume 6 1 5 4 3 2 No 1 2 Item Playback Volume Tab Source/Path Name Description Click this button tto show the playback volume page. This shows the source name for each volume control slider, including: - WAVE: All digital audio sources except MIDI files - SW: Software Synthesizer; control the playback volume of the MIDI files - CD: CD-ROM digital playback (CD-DA) volume control - LEFT, RIGHT. . . : the volume control for each speaker/ channel. Note: Windows® Vista doesn't support WAVE, Synthesizer and CD-In volume controls. Click this button to mute or unmute the audio channel. Drag this slider down to decrease the volume; drag it up to increase the volume. The tool-tip reveals the percentage number from 1 to 100 in terms of the full scale level. The horizontal slider controls the volume between the left and right channels. Reset all volume controls to the default settings ASUS Xonar D2 39 3 4 Mute/Unmute button Volume Slider 5 6 Left/Right Balance Reset 6. 3. 2 Recording/Monitoring Volume 1 7 6 5 4 3 2 8 No 1 2 Item Recording Volume Tab Source/Path Name Description 9 Click this button to show the recording volume page. This shows the source name for each volume control slider, including: S/PDIF-In: S/PDIF digital input source Mix: Stereo Mix which will record all analog inputs and digital wave audio you are playing on PC ALT: high-quality analog loop-back recording from front line-out CD-In: recording from CD-In for CD-ROM player Aux: recording from Aux-In for typically TV-tuner card audio or other sound sources Line-In: recording from Line-in jack for external audio devices WAVE: recording from digital wave audio you are playing on PC (Note: Windows Vista doesn't support WAVE recording. ) 3 Monitoring button Click this button to monitor and loopback recording audio to outputs (PC speakers). Therefore, the recording volume will influence the monitoring signals from speaker outputs. [. . . ] In addition, Xonar D2 also provides Dolby Pro-Logic IIx and DTS Neo:PC to upmix TV and other music to multi-channel surround sound in Home Theater environments. Xonar D2 also has Ultra High Fidelity SNR118dB on ALL 7. 1 channel analog output at 192K/24bit, which is the best quality consumer audio card in the world. Therefore, it's also the best card to deliver the high quality audio through an analog connection to your home theater system or high-end multi-channel speakers. Q4: Does the Xonar D2 support EAX on Vista? [. . . ]