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- Multi!Wav Adapter Device Driver
- by
- Tomas Hurka, Hukatronic tom@hukatronic.cz
-
- Version 1.14 of Multi!Wav Adapter Device Driver for NEXTSTEP Release 3.2
- and 3.3 for Intel Processors and OPENSTEP 4.0 /Mach
-
- The Harvard Computer Music Center, Rob Poor, and Tomas Hurka announce
- the first NeXTStep for Intel driver for a professional audio card.
- Thanks to the amazing work of Tomas Hurka, we have completed a driver
- for the AdB Digital Multiwav Pro and Multiwav Pro-18 cards.
-
- OVERVIEW:
- Multi!Wav Adapter device driver lets you take advantage of the
- following adapters:
- Manufacturer Adapter PC Bus
- AdB Corp. Multi!Wav Digital PRO ISA
- AdB Corp. Multi!Wav Digital PRO18 ISA
-
- These Multi!Wav cards provide AES/EBU, SPDIF, and TOSLINK input/output
- to your NeXTStep Intel machine. The Pro-18 card adds an 18 bit digital
- to analog converter for monitoring. For more information about AdB
- sound cards see the AdB www home page at http://www.adbdigital.com.
-
- Driver supports 32000,44100 and 48000 Hz sampling rates, 16 bit linear
- sampling in mono or stereo format. The driver makes the card work like
- a standard audio card, so special software is not needed for digital
- tranfers, though we recommend Bernhard Scholz's excellent SASound.app
- for recording. The driver is robust, and provides much better playback
- that what you might be used to from the Microsoft Sound System,
- SoundBlaster, or Pro Audio Spectrum.
-
- Harvard Computer Music Center are currently using the cards to do
- direct to DAT transfers, and with Lexicon MXP1s for digital
- reverberation without leaving the digital realm. They're proven to be a
- remarkable improvement over our Microsoft Sound System Cards.
-
- WARRANTY:
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
- ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS
- BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
- SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
- BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
- WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
- OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
- ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
- COPYING:
- The Multi!Wav adapter device driver is shareware. You can freely
- distribute without changing or removing any parts of the package. If
- you found the driver reliable, please, register the driver. For more
- details see document Registration.rtf.
-
- Changes between version 1.13 and 1.14:
- 1. Driver now correctly generate carrier for 48 KHz and 32 KHz sampling
- rates.
-
- Release 1.13 notes:
- 1. This a first public release of the driver.
- 2. Only Multi!Wav Digital PRO with XLINK XC4003A is supported. Other
- two versions (XC4004A and XC4003E) of XLINK can be supported on
- request.
- 3. Driver does not use IRQ since Multi!Wav card cannot generate one.
- The result is this log message when the driver is loaded by Mach OS:
- MultiWav at dma channels 6 and 7 irq -268415659
- This does no harm, just Sound class does not count with the sound driver
- without IRQ.
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- These instructions show you how to install the Multi!Wav adapter device
- driver on an Intel-based computer running NEXTSTEPĂ®. The driver is
- distributed as a file named MultiWav.1.14.I.b.tar.gz.
-
- 1. Install Multi!Wav card under Windows and set all hardware switches using
- AdB installation program. Test that he card works correctly under
- Windows.
- 2. If you received the MultiWav.1.14.I.b.tar.gz file via NeXTmail or
- downloaded via FTP or another electronic source, place a copy of the
- file in a location where you can access it when you log in as root.
- 3. Log in as root.
- Only the superuser, root, can install the device drivers. If you're not
- sure how to log in as root, see your system administrator.
- 4. Uncompress and unarchive the MultiWav.1.14.I.b.tar.gz file.
- 5. Double-click the MultiWav.config. This automatically launches
- Configure.app and copies the driver into the /NextLibary/Devices
- directory.
- 6. Add the MultiWav driver (PRO or PRO18) as a Sound device, and configure
- port address according to the card setting. The default setting should
- be OK for most cases.
- 7. Save configuration and quit Configure.app.
- 8. Reboot computer.
-
- BUGS:
- Send all bug reports and any other suggestion via e-mail to
- tom@hukatronic.cz. Please, remember to include your configuration.
-
- Special thanks to:
- Sean Anthony Varah <cello@mario.harvard.edu>
- R. Dunbar Poor <r@pia.media.mit.edu>
- Rene Krupansky
-
- For more information on the driver, please contact us at:
- Tomas Hurka
- Hukatronic (H.C.C.)
- Kankovskeho 8
- 182 00 Praha 8
- Czech Republic
- Email: tom@hukatronic.cz
-
- Sean Varah
- Harvard Computer Music Center
- Department of Music
- Harvard University
- Music Building, North Yard
- Cambridge, MA 02138
- U.S.A.
- Email:multiwav@mario.harvard.edu
-