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- Page 1 User’s Manual Philips Consumer Electronics Company A Division of Philips Electronics North America Corporation Knoxville, TN 37914-1810, U.S.A. Printed in the U.S.A.
- Page 2 Philips Acoustic Edge™ 5.1-Channel PCI Sound Card PSC706 ____________________________ Philips Consumer Electronics Company One Philips Drive Knoxville,TN 37914 Revised 03/12/01...
- Page 3 Licensed Software and destroy all copies thereof. In addition, in the event of termination because of your failure to com- ply with your obligations, Philips reserves the right to invoke any and all other remedies available to it in law or contract including the right to claim damages.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Joystick Configuration for Windows 95/98/Me ....32 Technical Support ...35 Philips Acoustic Edge™ DSP Special Effects and Algorithms...36 Philips Acoustic Edge™ Control Panel...37 Help Button...37 Utilities Tab...37... -
Page 5: Key Features
PC . . . … a full-blown, digital surround-sound, discrete six-channel home theater experience through your new Philips Acoustic Edge Sound Card. Acoustic Edge is the first PC card to deliver the impact of 6 distinct channels of sound from every application. -
Page 6: Minimum System Requirements
If CD/DVD autorun is enabled, a Philips Edge Series Autorun window will pop up when the CD is inserted into the CD drive.Then click on the “View PSC706 Installation Videos" icon from the window. Another Philips Edge Series AutoRun win- dow will pop up;... - Page 7 Disconnect all devices that are connected to the computer. Remove the computer cover. Select an available PCI slot and, if necessary, remove its cover plate. Keep the mounting screw to secure your sound card later. Save the mounting plate for possible use later. PCI Bus Slot...
- Page 8 Top & Bottom View PCI Bus Slot Mounting Screw Use the screw from the slot cover to secure the sound card to the frame of the computer chassis, but do not over-tighten. Securing the card assures proper grounding. PCI Bus Slot...
- Page 9 S/PDIF IN To connect digital speakers, an AC3 or DTS decoder, receiver or other device with (Brown) an S/PDIF input to the S/PDIF Out of the sound card, plug it into the orange phono S/PDIF OUT Black DIN jack on the end of this cable. To connect an external digital source with an S/PDIF...
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Page 10: Software Installation
2000 screens are slightly ® 95/98/Me/2000 Turn on the computer and place the Philips Acoustic Edge™ CD in your CD-ROM drive. When the Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box reports that a new PCI Multimedia Audio Device has been detected, click... - Page 11 Installing Acoustic Edge Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT If you are installing from the install CD or if you have copied the install to any other location, select and browse to your directory SPECIFY A LOCATION where the setup files are located.
- Page 12 FINISH For Windows ® 2000, you must install the Philips Acoustic Edge Audio™ and Philips Acoustic Edge GamePort Enumerator devices. Browse to the Driver disk directory WDM\English to install these files. You will find these files in the same WDM install directory and Windows drivers for Philips Acoustic Edge™...
- Page 13 Installing Acoustic Edge After clicking “Finish” the Philips Acoustic Edge™ GamePort will be installed. It is possible during gameport installation, Windows msanalog.vxd, vjoyd.vxd and msjstick.drv. It is recommended that you keep your existing files. Click on all 3 screens that appear.
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Page 14: Yamaha Softsynthesizer Installation
Installing Acoustic Edge AMAHA YNTHESIZER NSTALLATION 10. After Acoustic Edge™ driver installation, the software launcher will prompt you to install the Yamaha SoftSynthesizer. Click 11. The Yamaha SoftSynthesizer Welcome page appears. Click 12. Enter the serial number located on the Yamaha Corporation Certificate of Authenticity included with your documentation. - Page 15 Installing Acoustic Edge 13. The Choose Destination Location dialog box appears. Follow the instructions in this box . Click NEXT 14. Select A Program Folder dialog box appears. Click NEXT...
- Page 16 3. Double click on Sirensetup.exe 4. Follow the on-screen instructions for installation. Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Philips Acoustic Edge™. your product now by clicking in the dialog window shown below. If you prefer to register your product at a later time, go to:...
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Page 17: Windows Nt ® Installation
Philips Acoustic Edge Install.exe (D: represents your CD-ROM drive). Wait a couple of minutes while the data transfers. Once it finishes the Philips Acoustic Edge Settings window will appear. Click OK on the settings page and then when the “System Settings Change” page comes up and prompts you to restart, click the “Restart Computer Now”... -
Page 18: Joystick Configuration For Windows ® 95/98/Me
Open the Control Panel and double-click on the icon. Select the ADVANCED tab and under PORT DRIVER ASSIGNMENT and select Philips Acoustic Edge GamePort. GAME CONTROLLERS Select the tab and click the Add button. You may select any one of GENERAL... -
Page 19: Technical Support
Internet Address: www.pcsound.philips.com Product Return Before returning the Philips sound card, you must first contact the Philips Technical Support group to determine the nature of product defect. Once the nature of the problem has been determined, a Return Authorization number and address will be supplied. -
Page 20: Philips Acoustic Edge™ Dsp Special Effects And Algorithms
DSP Special Effects and Algorithms ™ DSP S HILIPS COUSTIC PECIAL FFECTS AND EAX™ Game Compatibility (Effects Tab) The Acoustic Edge uses QSound Environmental Modeling™ (QEM™) to achieve compatibility with games utilizing EAX™ 1.0 or EAX™ 2.0 properties including environmental reverb, obstruction and occlusion modeling. EAX™ is a trademark of Creative Labs. -
Page 21: Settings Tab
Select this mode when listening using headphones rather than speakers. The head- phones should be plugged into the “front” speaker jack. Selecting “Headphone” tells the sound card to use a special 3D algorithm when play- ing 3D games. Selecting “2 Speakers” will result in incorrect sound positioning when using headphones. - Page 22 Control Panel 4 Speakers Select this if you have a 4 or 5 piece speaker system (stereo front left and right and rear/surround left and right speakers and optional subwoofer). 3D sounds generat- ed by compatible applications will processed to the appropriate speaker and stereo sounds from applications will be expanded to four distinct channels using QMSS.
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Page 23: S/Pdif Tab
S/PDIF I Enable This setting is used to enable the S/PDIF In on Philips Acoustic Edge from a digital source such as a CD-ROM or DVD drive housed in the PC or an outside device connected to the external S/PDIF cable. -
Page 24: Effects Tab
If you are using the Philips Acoustic Edge (H/W) Synth rather than the Yamaha SXG (default) then the “Environment” you select will also be used when playing MIDI music and the intensity will be controlled on the reverb slider on the MIDI tab. -
Page 25: Midi Tab
MIDI engine. The SXG IS NOT CONTROLLED ON THIS TAB BUT IN A SEPARATE CONTROL PANEL. See details on the following pages Your Acoustic Edge™ sound card includes two distinct wavetable music synthesis engines. The Yamaha SXG is an extremely high quality, high polyphony (512 simulta- neous voices) MIDI synthesis engine with both GM and XG compatibility. - Page 26 Control Panel Default MIDI Device When your card is initially installed the SXG Softsynth is selected as your default MIDI engine. To view your default selection look under “Default MIDI Device” on the MIDI tab. MIDI applications will use this default device unless they have been specially configured to use a different device.
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Page 27: Speaker Test Tab
Click on Auto Mode. Sounds will emanate in sequence starting with LF and cycle through each speaker in the Output Mode you selected. Use the Master Volume Slider to adjust the overall output level of your speaker system. Adjust speaker connections as required to complete your sound card installation. -
Page 28: Information Tab
DVD Playback Modes Using 4 or 5.1 channel surround speakers your Acoustic Edge™ sound card can deliver true multi-channel surround sound from a compatible soft-DVD player application even if the player only supports stereo output. If the soft-DVD player is capable of providing a true 5.1 Dolby Digital or a 4 channel Dolby Digital™... -
Page 29: About Siren™ Xpress
• From the View menu, choose the Compact/Skin Mode option. • Press Ctrl + M on your keyboard. You can expand the Philips compact mode to display the current and next songs, the Compact/Skin Mode button, and the Select Playlist button.To expand the compact mode, click the Expand control on the right end of the player.You can also use this... - Page 30 About SIREN XPress ™ Media Files A media file refers to any audio and video file that SIREN will play from your com- puter. SIREN supports the following media file formats: .wav, .mp3, .wma, .pca, .aif, .ogg, .avi, .wmv, .asf, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .qt. Finding Media After you install SIREN XPress, a configuration wizard will scan your local hard drives for any .mp3 and .wma files and add them to your SIREN XPress media library.
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Page 31: About Audiopix
D:\Applications\QSound Labs\AudioPix\. Open the apixfree.txt file. Recording Source Configuration Philips Acoustic Edge™ allows you to record sounds and music from various input sources (i.e. microphone, audio CD, line in, etc). Before you start recording, you need to configure the recording source as follow:... - Page 32 Conflicts between your audio card and another device may occur if they are set to use the same I/O address. To resolve I/O conflicts, change the resource settings of your Philips Acoustic Edge™ card or the conflicting device using Device Manager in Windows ®...
- Page 33 Select “Uninstall/Unplug a Device”. Click Next. Select “Uninstall a Device”. Click Next. Choose Philips Acoustic Edge Game Port Enumerator from the list. Click Next. 10. Click Yes on the confirm screen. Click Next. 11. Open the Add / Remove Programs control panel applet 12.
- Page 34 Notes:...