Avance Logic ALS100+ Sound System Software ver:ALS11.A1.40 Installation and Setup Windows 98 installation procedure for ALS100+ WDM driver: ===================================================== 1. After user installs the ALS100+ sound card into the ISA slot in the computer and powers on the system, Windows 98 will prompt user with a "New Hardware Found" dialog box since the ALS100+ sound card is ISA plug and play. To install the Windows 98 drivers, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer" and click on OK. 2. Insert the "ALS100+ Win 98 Drivers and Utilities" diskette into the appropriate drive and select that drive from the prompted dialog box and click on OK. Windows 98 will copy all the needed files and set up all the logic devices on the board automatically. 3. Install the ALSRACK player by running the SETUP.EXE file (also provided on the "ALS100+ Win 98 Drivers and Utilities" disk) from the Windows 98 Start menu|Run. This will create the Avance Sound Program Group with the ALSRACK utility icon. (See Appendix below for full descriptions of ALSRACK functions). Troubleshooting: ================ Appendix - Driver Reference: ============================ [Windows drivers] ----------------- ALS100+ has two kernal mode driver for Windows 98. They are listed below: Sound System Driver OPL3 Driver MPU401 Driver Win98 Drivers als100p.sys alsfm.sys msmpu401.sys (msmpu401.sys is a standard driver shipped with Windows 98) The Windows 98 joystick drivers are the MSJSTICK.DRV and VJOYD.VXD that are Microsoft drivers shipped with Windows 98. Besides these two Windows 98 kernal mode drivers, a ALS100P.INF and ALS100P.CAT is needed for Windows 98 installation. [Information Files] ------------------- ALS100P.INF is a installation information file for Avance Logic ALS100+ sound chip under Windows 98. This file tell Windows 98 where the drivers should be copied during installation. See the instructions above for ALS100+ Windows 98 installation. ALSRACK for ALS100+ -------------------------- 1. Structure and components: The ALSRACK consists of a MIXER control panel, MIDI panel, WAVE panel, and CD panel. 1.1 To enable or disable a panel: Clicking the mouse button on the MIDI, WAVE, or CD in MIXER control panel will cause the corresponding panel to disappear, another click will cause the corresponding panel to re-appear. 1.2 To change a channel: Click channel LEFT or RIGHT button to change to the channel you want. 1.3 To activate volume and balance control: Change to the channel you want (see 1.2), then click up or down arrow buttons to change the volume, or click balance LEFT or RIGHT arrow buttons to change balance. 1.4 To mute system: Change to the channel you want, then click MUTE check mark to disable sound, click again to re-enable sound. 2. MIDI panel 2.1 To open or close a MIDI file: Click the button of the MIDI sign on the MIDI panel, choose OPEN to open a MIDI file, or choose CLOSE to close a file. 2.2 Auto repeat and show information: Click the button of the MIDI sign on MIDI panel. Clicking on AUTO REPEAT or SHOW INFORMATION will enable or disable the selection. When AUTO REPEAT is selected, the MIDI file will be played again when it reaches the end. When SHOW INFORMATION is selected, the MIDI window will open and the information from the MIDI file will appear on the MIDI window. When a MIDI file is opened, you can also click the MIDI window to show the information of that file. 2.3 Other operations: When a MIDI file is opened, you can click PLAY to play it, or click PAUSE, STOP, FF or RW to manipulate the selection. You can also use the volume control buttons on the MIDI panel to control the volume directly. 3. WAVE panel 3.1 Select TAPE I or TAPE II to playback: There are two TAPE boxes on the WAVE panel. TAPE I can only play wave files. TAPE II can play and record wave files. There is one set of control buttons on the right of WAVE panel. When Tape I is selected, the control buttons will take effect for TAPE I. When Tape II is selected, the control buttons will work for TAPE II. Click the button TAPEI/TAPEII to select between TAPEI or TAPEII, or push the button TAPEI PLAYBACK on TAPE I box to select TAPE I, while pushing the button TAPEII REC/PLAY on TAPE II box to select TAPEII. Note: When you want to playback a wave file, you need to select TAPE I/TAPE II first. 3.2 Open a wave file to play: Push the OPEN button, select OPEN on the menu, select a wave file to play. When the wave file is opened, the TAPE containing the file is automatically selected, just push the PLAY button to play it. 3.3 Record a wave file: Push the button REC.INPUT to select the input media (Line in, MIDI, Audio CD, or MIC), then push the the button OPEN on TAPE II and select NEW to create a new wave file. The TAPEII indicator will be red to show it is waiting to record. Play the source media, and push recording button on TAPEII to begin recording. When finished recording, push the record button (now it is a red square) to stop. After finished, save the file as the name you specified. 3.4 Full-duplex: For sound card supporting full-duplex, TAPEI and TAPEII can work at the same time. This means while TAPEI is playing, TAPEII can record, or while TAPEII is recording, TAPEI can play. When using full-duplex, the control buttons work like this: Playback button and stop button only take effect for TAPEI, record button works only for TAPEII. Push record button once to begin recording, and push it again to stop recording. 3.5 Synchronous recording (record and play simultaneously): After selecting an INPUT media and new wave file for recording, push button SYNC.REC to begin a synchronous recording. The mixer will automatically play the source file and begin recording at the same time. 4. CD 4.1 EDIT and Program: Push EDIT to select which tracks (selections on the CD) to play and add it to the Playlist. Then click the Program button to play the selected tracks. 4.2 Random play: The Random button plays tracks in a random order. 4.3 Repeat: To repeat one track of a CD, select the track and push the repeat button one time. A single repeat signal will appear in the CD player window. To repeat the full CD, push the repeat button 2 times. A full repeat signal will appear in the CD player window.