User manual ASUS LS221H

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] (note: the Speaker Test function is not available on Windows Vista due to a limitation in its audio stack. ) 2 Speaker Test ASUS Xonar U1 15 6. 2. 3 SPDIF Out/DDL Xonar U1 is capable of outputting Dolby Digital Live, which are real-time encoders that transcode any audio, including games and music, into industry-standard Dolby Digital bit-streams on-the-fly. This is ideal for playback through a home theater system, creating an immersive and impressive cinema surround sound experience. It enables a single digital connection to carry high quality Dolby Digital surround audio from your PC to digital speakers and AV Receivers. 2 3 1 No 1 2 Item S/PDIF Out enable/ disable S/PDIF Output Formats/Functions Description Click this check box to enable S/PDIF output. This pull-down menu allows you to select one of the following two formats: -PCM (Pulse Code Modulation, which is a typical raw audio data format. ) -Dolby Digital Live real-time 5. 1ch encoding This advanced setting will automatically upmix stereo (2ch) content to 5. 1 channel surround with Dolby Pro-Logic IIx when using Dolby Digital Live output. 3 Dobly Digital Live advanced upmixing option 16 ASUS Xonar U1 6. 2. 4 Audio Channels (For Vista only) This setting only appears in Windows Vista. Vista will deliver the audio channels to the audio driver according to this setting, no matter what the original audio content is or how many channels they have. Therefore, you need to set this in accordance with your audio content before you play it. Please note that this setting is synchronized with Vista's system speaker configuration and changing the setting during playback will cease the audio playback program. You may have to restart the program after the change. It's recommended that you close all playing programs before you change the setting. 1 No 1 Item Audio Channels Description Here are some typical suggestions: -MP3, WMA, AAC, CD, VCD, 2D games => 2 channels -DVD-Video with Dolby Digtial or DTS 5. 1 => 6 channels -DVD-Video with Dolby Digtial EX or DTS ES => 8 channels -3D games => 8 channels ASUS Xonar U1 17 6. 2. 5 · · · 7. 1 Virtual Speaker Shifter The 7. 1 Virtual Speaker Shifter has the following major features: Expanding/upmixing audio to 7. 1-channel surround sound Virtualizing 7. 1 surround sound over any set of speakers Shiftable virtual speaker positioning allows you to adjust the best sound field easily without moving physical speakers and wires 2 3 4 5 1 6 8 7 No 1 Item Shifter enable/disable Description Click this check box to enable the 7. 1 Virtual Speaker Shifter. Clicking the text bar will switch the right window to the Speaker Shifter page for manual adjustments. You can drag each speaker or listener to a different relative position "virtually" using only your mouse. In addition, the Xonar U1 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 technology. 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 3 4 Mute/Unmute button Volume Slider 5 6 Left/Right Balance Reset 22 ASUS Xonar U1 6. 3. 2 Recording/Monitoring Volume 1 7 6 5 4 3 2 No 1 2 Item Recording Volume Tab Source/Path Name Description Click this button to show the recording volume page. This shows the source name for each volume control slider, including: MIC: recording from microphone 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. ) 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. [. . . ] Make sure you have installed Windows Media Player 9 or above version, and MP3 encoder in your PC. (following the pop-up downloading information to finish the installation. To download free MP3 encoder, go to: http://www. elecard. com/download/#freeware/ ) PMP Lite supports MP3, WMA, WAVE, CD source formats. [. . . ]