Terratec EWS64S User Manual

TerraTec Productinfo

Current as of: 09/21/99

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The AudioSystem EWS®64 S.

It’s here! The official replacement for TerraTec’s successful SoundSystem Maestro 32/96. Our development

team went out of their way to produce something really special. We combined the proven features of its

®

predecessor with those of our high end EWS

®

the market: The AudioSystem EWS

64 S. A brief look at the EWS® compatibility list will make your

64 XL to provide you with the finest consumer sound card in

multimedia heart beat faster: DirectSound hardware acceleration, DirectSound3D, General MIDI (GM and

GS), as well as 100% support for all common standards such as SoundBlaster

Ô and MPU-401Ô. The AudioSystem EWS

Adlib

®

64 S was deliberately designed as an ISA card to guarantee

full game compatibility under DOS without the usual driver headaches. The EWS

Ô, SoundBlaster ProÔ,

®

64 S lives up to the

extraordinary TerraTec requirements for a sound card: high-end audio quality, easy installation and

fulfillment of the demands of professional musicians. To reach this goal we used the same powerful DSP

®

architecture as used in the state of the art EWS

64 XL. The DSP is also responsible for the 64 voice

hardware wavetable synthesis and the management of the on-board RAM. A Radio Connector allows for easy

installation of a Plug and Play cable ready RDS Stereo FM Radio tuner.

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Technical Specification.

Compatible with the following standards:

· Intel™ Plug and Play

· Microsoft™ DirectSound™

· Microsoft™ DirectSound™3D

· General MIDI

· General Synthesizer

· MPU-401™ compatible

· Soundblaster™

· Soundblaster™ Pro

· Adlib™

· MPC Level III

Wavetable synthesizer:

· 2MB Sample-RAM onboard

· Expandable up to 64 MB Sample-RAM

· Up to 64 voice wavetable synthesizer (GM/GS-

SoundSets ready to download)

· General MIDI

· General Synthesizer

Audio features:

· 8/16-Bit converter with 5Khz-52 kHz sample rate

· Mono microphone input with preamplifier

· 2 analog stereo outputs

· 1 Digital in S/PDIF with 44,1 kHz (optical/coaxial

switchable) (only with ‚DigitalXtension R‘)

· 1 Digital out S/PDIF with 44,1 kHz, optical and coaxial
(only with ‚DigitalXtension R‘)

· Extended Full Duplex record and simultaneous
playback of up to 32 channels

· 4-Bit Hardware real time de- and compression
ADPCM

· 8-Bit Hardware real time de- and compression
m-Law, A-Law CCITT standard

· Record and playback of all audio sources

Stereo digital / analog mixer:

· Mixing of different audio sources: microphone, CD,
synthesizer, digital audio, line in and radio.

MIDI Interfaces:

DSP:

· Reverb and chorus effects

· 4 band EQ

· 3D sound (V-Space)

· Simulations for two and four audio channels

· Effects for all audio sources

FM synthesizer:

· 4OP+ Technology

· 20 voices, stereo

· 2 MPU-401™ compatible MIDI Interfaces (UART-

Mode)

· Duplex MIDI for simultaneous record and playback of
up to 32 MIDI channels

Digital Game Port for Joysticks and MIDI:

· Connector for analog or digital Joysticks

System requirement:

· Windows95™

· Pentium™ or compatible processor more than 100

MHz

· 16 MB RAM

· VGA or SVGA adapter with a resolution of 800 x 600

points with 256 colors

· CD-ROM drive

· 20 MB hard disk space

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