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User Guide VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP & Server 2003
Revision History
Rev 1.1e
Date Jun.13.07
Initial PW
Note Initial public release
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Table of Contents
Revision History...2 Table of Contents ...3 List of Figures...4 Introduction ...5 System Requirement ...6 Display Mode ...7
Simple Mode ...7 Full Mode...8 Panel Detail ...9 Top Panel ...9 Bottom Panel...10 Configuration Panels ...11
Speaker Configuration Panel 11 Mixer Configuration Panel 13 ...
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List of Figures
Figure 1 - Simple Mode Adeck 7 Figure 2 - Full Mode Adeck ...8 Figure 3 - Top Panel ...9 Figure 4 - Speaker Configuration Panel 11 Figure 5 - Speaker Configuration Panel with Independent Headphone Enabled 11 Figure 6 - Headphone Volume Setting in Speaker Control Panel 12 Figure 7 - Mixer ...
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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. The main features of Adeck include:
Supports various sound enhancement settings...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
Figure 2 - Full Mode Adeck
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VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows XP... status is located to the right of the Channel Display. If "Digital PCM" is shown, that indicates the audio system will allow a PCM music stream output from ...Power" button), the bottom panel expands to show the selected panel.
Power Button: When the Power button is activated, Adeck will hide itself in the system tray.
Volume Control...
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VT1708A VIA HD Audio Adeck For Windows 2000, Windows... and Recording Mixer volume controls. Additionally, the user can select which playback or recording device to ...audio signals as the front speakers.
S/PDIF Configuration Panel: As Figure 19 shows, the user can configure the S/PDIF related control.
System Information Panel: As Figure 21 shows, the user can view the system information and set...
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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... will be six as shown in Figure 5. To control the headphone volume, click on the headphone icon at the bottom-right corner...
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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.
Click here to return to speaker control
Headphone Volume
Headphone Test
Figure 6 - Headphone Volume Setting in Speaker Control Panel
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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...
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... a peak meter to show the volume of the audio input.
Figure 8 - Mixer Configuration Panel - Recording Device Setting The "Headphone" and "Front Microphone" configuration panels may or may not be shown depending on the user's computer system. The "Headphone" mixer controls work the same way as the "Playback" mixer controls, but it is only visible when the "Independent...
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The "Front Microphone" configuration panel is shown in the figure below contains on mixer control because the front microphone only has one input jack.
Figure 10 - Mixer Configuration Panel - Front Microphone
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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...
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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...
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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...Panel" controls usually only has two jacks listed: "Headphone" and "Front Mic".
Front Panel Control
Press to set jack...
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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...
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The Headphone Configuration Panel is shown ...a multi-channel device (such as 5.1 surround sound) to watch a movie while simultaneously using the independent headphone feature to make phone calls through a VoIP Internet phone. The "Redirected Headphone" feature enables the user to hear the same audio that is being...
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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...