User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 Jun 13 2007 Revision 1.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 Revision History Rev Date Initial Note 1.1e Jun.13.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 Table of Contents Revision History....................................................................................................................... 2 Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... 3 List of Figures.........................................................................................................................
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User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 5 Introduction Audio Deck (Adeck) is a Windows based program which co-works with the VIA HD Audio driver and the VIA HD Audio chip. With the advanced audio control interface, users can make the best use of the VIA Audio chip and create powerful customized sound environments.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 System Requirement Adeck only supports the VIA HD audio chip series with VIA HD audio driver installed. Minimum System Requirement Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz or above Minimum of 256MB of RAM Minimum of 10MB of available hard disk space Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 or above Recommended System Requirement Intel Pentium 4 2.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 7 Display Mode Simple Mode Once Adeck has been launched, the panel will be displayed in the center of windows desktop. The Adeck system is initialized using the simple mode (see Figure 1). In this mode, the user only has limited control and audio information. The basic controls include: master volume and mute. The basic audio information includes: peak meter, number of channels, S/PDIF out status or sound effect status, etc.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 8 Full Mode In the full mode, the bottom part of Adeck expands. Depending upon the button that was selected, different panels will be displayed in the expanded portion. Figure 2 shows an example of Adeck in Full Mode.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 9 Panel Detail Adeck consists of two parts; A top and bottom panel. In the simple mode, only the top panel will be fully shown. In the full mode, both the top and bottom panel will be fully expanded. Top Panel The top panel consists of several parts as shown in Figure 3. Volume control: This is the global volume control. The global volume is controlled using a slider. Scrolling the slider to the left decreases the volume.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 10 Bottom Panel The Bottom Panel is beneath the top panel. The contents of the Bottom Panel are dependent upon the button that activated to it. Even if the Bottom Panel is already expanded, the contents can still be changed by selecting another button from the bottom of the Top Panel. Speaker Configuration Panel: As Figure 4 shows, it contains the channel configuration and output volume control.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 11 Configuration Panels Speaker Configuration Panel As Figure 4 shows, the Speaker Configuration Panel is divided into two parts. On the left side, the user can select the number of audio channels. There are up to 8 channels available. Once a channel configuration is selected the right side of the panel will change accordingly.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 12 The headphone volume controls are as shown in Figure 6. To switch back to the speaker volume controls, click on the speaker icon at the bottom-right corner.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 13 Mixer Configuration Panel On the Mixer Configuration Panel, there are four mixer devices that can be selected: playback, recording, headphone and microphone. Figure 7 shows the Playback Mixer. Each of the Playback items has a volume, balance and mute control. The user can also select the default playback device from a drop-down menu.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 14 On the Recording Mixer, all possible input devices are shown. Figure 8 shows the Recording Mixer. Each of the Recording items has a volume, balance and item select. Please note that there can only be one source at any given time. On the bottom-left side of this page, there are Mic 20db boost control and Front Mic 20db boost control check boxes. User could enlarge the recording sound by checking on this feature.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 15 The “Front Microphone” configuration panel is shown in the figure below contains on mixer control because the front microphone only has one input jack.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 16 Effects Configuration Panel There are two sound enhancement controls in Adeck: “Equalizer” and “Bass Management”. When the Equalizer is selected, the user will see the 10 bands from 31Hz to 16kHz. The equalizer settings will only take effect after the user enables it by pressing the “On/Off” button above the equalizer.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 17 Figure 14 shows the “Bass Management” features. The user can enable the “Bass Management” features by clicking on the “On/Off” button at the top of the “Bass Management” controls. The “Bass Management” feature allows the user to control the low frequency limits for the speakers. When the low frequency limit is set for a speaker, any audio signal below the limit will be automatically channeled to the subwoofer.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 18 Jack Configuration Panel The Jack Configuration Controls enable the user to configure all the audio jacks on the computer system. The “Back Panel” lists all the jacks at the rear side of the computer system. The “Front Panel” lists all the jacks at the front side of the computer system. In general, the multi-channel playback and recording jacks will be listed in the “Back Panel” controls.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 19 When a new device is plugged-in, a new panel will be displayed if the “Auto Show Dialog” checkbox is selected. Figure 17 shows an example of a jack being plugged into the green jack. When the jack insertion is detected, Adeck will be displayed. The user will see a red arrow indicating the jack insertion event. An extension of the panel will also be displayed. There the user can assign the jack to any available function.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 20 The Headphone Configuration Panel is shown in Figure 18. There are two headphone configurations that can be chosen: “Independent Headphone” or “Redirected Headphone”. The “Independent Headphone” feature enables the user to play separate music on the headphone and speaker. For example, the user can use a multi-channel device (such as 5.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 21 S/PDIF Configuration Panel The S/PDIF Configuration Panel enables the user to configure S/PDIF related control. The “S/PDIF Out” panel allows the user to enable S/PDIF output support and select the S/PDIF output sampling rate. Please note that some S/PDIF decoders do not support 176.4 and 192kHz. Before enabling these higher sampling rates, please checking the external S/PDIF decoder first.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 22 System Information Panel The System Information Panel displays the current system information, allows the user to select the language for Adeck and enables the user to visit the VIA web site. Figure 21 - System Information Panel The “Hot Key” Configuration Panel allows the user to set hot keys for controlling the volume and muting. To use the hot keys, “Enable Hot Key Function” must first be checked.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 23 When a hot key is pressed, the screen will show a green volume control bar at the bottom of the screen and a mute/un-mute icon at the top-right corner of the screen. The on-screen display can be hidden by pressing the “Show/Hide” hot key.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 24 Tool Tips Whenever the user moves mouse curser over any interactive item, Adeck will pop out a message box that will notify user regarding the usage of the item.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 25 Task Bar Figure 25 shows Adeck after it has been enabled. The user can single-click the system tray icon to show the Adeck application. Figure 25 – Task Bar Icon for Adeck If the user right-clicks the Adeck system tray icon, a small menu will be displayed as shown in Figure 26. The user can either open Adeck by selecting “VIA HD Audio Deck” or close Adeck by selecting “Exit”.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 26 Magic 5.1 When there are only 3 jacks at the rear of the computer system , Adeck system will enable Magic 5.1 automatically. The user can use Magic 5.1 function to retask "Line Input" to “Line Output” for multi-stream Devices, when there are only 3 jacks at the rear of the computer system. Figure 27 shows “Line In” Jack will be retasked to “Back Surround Output” Jack when 4 Channel.
User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003 27 Figure 28 shows “Line In” Jack will be retasked to “Back Surround Output” Jack, and “Microphone” Jack will be retasked to “Center/LFE Output” Jack when 6 Channel. Switching to 6 Channel Line In Jack will be retasked to Back Surround Output Microphone will be retasked to Center/LFE Output Figure 28 – Magic 5.
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