HERE IS THE INFORMATION YOU REQUESTED Using Soundscape under Windows '95 This document contains important information regarding the installation and use of the Soundscape driver under the Windows 95 operating system. Print this document and keep it for later reference. If you have a previous version of the Soundscape Win 95 driver currently running on your Win 95 system, skip to the section titled "Updating your Win 95 drivers for Soundscape" If you have a non Win 95 driver currently installed under Win 95, continue. Uninstall non Win 95 versions of Soundscape software before installing 95 drivers Here's why. When Windows 95 boots up, it keeps a log of all of the different Base ports, IRQ's, and DMA's that each device is using. With Soundscape installed, the system allocates these values as being used. When you install the updated drivers, Windows 95 sees that these values are being used and installs the new drivers with other values. These new values, will not work. Especially the new Base port value. Baseport changes require a jumper change. So, the rule of thumb is to always uninstall the Soundscape drivers before updating. Here is how: Please Note: If a Joystick driver is installed, this does not need to be removed. 1. You will need to run the UNINST.EXE file included in the Win 3.1 software. 2. From Explorer, run the UNINST.EXE file located in disk #1 of the software build. 3. Follow the instructions on the screen. Soundscape is now totally removed from your system and you can now start from scratch. Installing the Windows 95 Soundscape Software for the first time If you already have a Win 95 Soundscape driver installed, please skip to the section titled, "Updating your Win 95 Soundscape drivers" 1. Open up the Control Panel. 2. Open up the Add New Hardware applet. 3. On the first page of the Add New Hardware Wizard select "Next". 4. When prompted to auto detect hardware, select "No". 5. When asked the type of hardware you want to install, select "Sound, video and game controllers". Then, select "Next". 6. When asked for the Manufacturer and Model of your hardware, do not select ENSONIQ. If you choose ENSONIQ from the list of manufacturers, you may be installing an older version of the driver. Instead, click on "Have Disk". 7. When prompted for the installation disk, enter the full path name of the driver diskette (e.g.,C:\SSCAPE95\ or A:\). 8. When asked to select the installed device, select "ENSONIQ Soundscape". 9. You will then be presented with the hardware settings that Windows would like to configure the driver with. These settings are based upon the hardware settings that the board is capable of along with the ones that are free in your system. Write these values down and make sure that they match the jumpers on your Soundscape card. For more information refer to pages 15 and 16 of you Soundscape hardware manual. (PLEASE NOTE:) If you have a Plug and Play Soundscape card, there are no jumpers to change. 10. At this point, click on "Next" and the driver should load. If the driver is unable to load, you will be instructed to power down your system. Choose "Yes" and then verify the I/O jumpers on the Soundscape card. If you have not already done so, you should install the Win 95 multimedia applications. These include: a mixer, Media Player, Sound Recorder, and a CD Player. Consult your Windows 95 manual for installation instructions. At this point, you can test your card simply by playing a WAV file and a MIDI file using the Media Player program included with Windows 95. If these files are unable to play, please refer to the section titled, "Driver Configuration". Installing the Microsoft Joystick driver Windows 95 is incapable of detecting the joystick port on our S2016 cards. In order for the joystick port to function, the Microsoft Joystick drivers must be installed. Here's how: 1. Go into the control panel and select the Add New Hardware icon. 2. When asked to search for new hardware, choose "No". 3. From the list of hardware devices to install, select "Sound, Video and Game Controllers". A list of manufacturers will be presented. 4. Choose Microsoft. To the right, there is another menu titled Models. 5. Choose "gameport joystick". After confirming this, Windows will prompt you to insert the Win95 CD-ROM for the installation. This should complete the Joystick installation process. Updating your Win 95 Soundscape drivers If you already have a version of the Native Win 95 Soundscape drivers installed, the procedure to update the driver is very simple. To access the driver configuration page: 1. Right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". 2. Select the Device Manager tab. 3. Double-click on "Sound, video, and game controller". This will expand that tree branch, allowing you to see the ENSONIQ Soundscape driver. 4. Select the ENSONIQ Soundscape branch and click "Drivers" 5. Scroll down to SNDSCP95.DRV and click on "Change Driver" and then "Have Disk". 6. Point the path for the drive to where you have placed the updated driver and click on "OK" 7. Choose ENSONIQ Soundscape and click on "OK". It will then copy the needed files to your hard drive and update your system. That's all that there is to it. Driver Configuration To access the driver configuration page: 1. Right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". 2. Select the Device Manager tab. 3. Double-click on "Sound, video, and game controller". This will expand that tree branch, allowing you to see the ENSONIQ Soundscape driver. 4. Select the ENSONIQ Soundscape branch and click "Properties". 5. You can obtain help on the various Property Page options. Click on the (?) in the title bar and then select the option you wish help on. Common Questions The following questions and answers can serve as a guide when using your Soundscape card in the Windows 95 operating environment. Read through all of them, even if you don't have the same question or situation. How do I change the Soundscape hardware settings in Windows 95? With Windows 95, there is no longer any need to use SSINIT. You can make all hardware configuration changes using the Soundscape driver. The Soundscape driver is located in the control panel. To change IRQ and DMA Values: 1. Go into System Properties, and select the Device Manager. 2. Scroll down to the Sound, Video, and Game Controller selection and double click it. It will expand into more subsets, one of which says ENSONIQ Soundscape. 3. Click on "ENSONIQ Soundscape", then click the properties button at the bottom of the window. 4. At the top of the properties menu, select the page titled Resources. 5. About halfway down on the page, there is a selection for use automatic settings. Remove the check mark from the box. 6. Scroll up and down in the resource setting window to select an IRQ or DMA to change. 7. When the desired setting is highlighted, click on the Change Setting box just below the resource setting window. You can now choose a new setting for this parameter. How do I change volume and balance levels in Windows 95? To make adjustments to Soundscape's volume settings and balance levels, use the Windows 95 mixer. To view the mixer, click through the hierarchy of pop-up menus, beginning with the Start button of the task bar. From there, click on "Programs, Accessories, Multimedia, and Volume" control (the mixer). Since you will probably change these settings often, it is a good idea to place the mixer in the taskbar. Here's how: 1. Open the Control Panel. 2. Double click on the Multimedia icon. The Multimedia Properties page appears. 3. In the playback section, check the box marked "Show volume control" in task bar. The mixer can now be invoked by double-clicking on the speaker icon located on the right side of the taskbar. MIDI doesn't sound right on my ELITE card. Why? When installing our Win 95 drivers in conjunction with our Soundscape ELITE the version of the drivers must be at least version 4.00.30 or newer. Here's how to check your driver version: 1. Open the Device Manager, located in the System icon in the Control Panel. 2. Once in the Device Manager, find the "Sound, Video, and Game Controller" selection and double-click it. It will expand into more subsets, one of which says ENSONIQ Soundscape. 3. Click on ENSONIQ Soundscape, then click the Properties button at the bottom of the window. 4. At the top of the Properties menu, select the page titled Drivers. This list presents you with a list of installed drivers. 5. Scroll down the list to find the driver titled SNDSCP95.DRV and click on it. The bottom of the windows contains a box revealing the version number of this driver. It should read 4.00.30 or newer. The last 2 digits (i.e. 30) indicate that this is build 30. Build 26 (4.00.26) will not work correctly with the Soundscape ELITE card. Symptoms would be either no MIDI output during Win 95 sessions or while playing games running from within Win 95, or a very distorted and out-of- tune MIDI playback. Why are there now two DMA Channels? Under Windows 95, the Soundscape card is capable of full duplex. This means that the card can play back 2 simultaneous WAV files, or can playback one while recording another. In order for this to happen, the sound card must dedicate 2 DMA channels. There is no way to disable just one DMA channel to run in Half Duplex mode, 2 DMA channels are required for the sound card to function properly. How does the Autodetect feature of Windows 95 affect my card? When installing our Win 95 drivers onto the system, the Hardware Wizard will ask you if you would like Windows to search for your new hardware. The answer is NO. Windows will not be capable of detecting our cards since they are not plug-and-play. Answering YES to this question will result in windows detecting an unknown device, and thus the drivers will not be installed correctly. Why are some of the Multimedia Services missing? At the time Win 95 is installed, it is possible that Windows will not install the sound utilities that you would expect to find. Features such as the Audio CODEC, the Media Player, and the Microsoft Mixer may not be present. This may cause your sound card to not respond properly, or not respond at all, when our drivers are installed. If this is the case, these applications must be installed onto the system from the Windows 95 CD-ROM. Here's how: 1. Go to the Control Panel and select Add/Remove new programs. 2. Go to the Windows Setup menu. 3. Scroll down to Multimedia and highlight it. 4. Click on "Details", and choose the components that you would like to install. The TV and Modem sections of Audiostation aren't working right. Why? The mixer utility in the Audiostation provided with the Win 95 Software Apps can be used under Windows 95. However, there are selections (TV and Modem) that will not function properly unless used with a plug-and-play card. The mixer provided with Win 95 should also work well. This is located in the taskbar next to the current time. It is represented by a small speaker icon. If this is not present, first make sure it is installed. See the preceding section for instructions on how to install the Microsoft mixer volume control. Can I still play my DOS games? Some games may require that Win 95 reboot into DOS Mode in order to play properly. If this is the case, the Win 95 software apps must be installed on the system to obtain sound support for the game. After the apps are installed, the following modifications must be made to your system: 1. Load an editor and edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file that Windows 95 uses to boot up. 2. Enter the following 3 lines at the top of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET BLASTER=A220 Ixx Dx T1 SET SNDSCAPE=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM C:\SNDSCAPE\SSINIT /I 3. Save this file, and reboot the system. 4. Once Windows 95 is re-booted, go to the START menu button in the toolbar. 5. Choose ‘Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode’. 6. You should now be able to play your games in this DOS session with sound support.