Sorry for the noob question, but how do I install these? The AppleAC97Audio-5_64.tar.gz file looks like source code. I tried searching this forum for the word 'ensoniq' and it comes back with 0 results?!?
Ensoniq Audio Pci Drivers For Mac
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Some of Crystal Semiconductor's audio chips come with what they call CCLS (CrystalClear Legacy Support). Some of these are the CS4622 and CS4624. CCLS provides a hardware interface that supports a Sound Blaster Pro-compatible interface in addition to FM and joystick interface. DDMA (Distributed DMA): Ensoniq AudioPCI was the first with a "pure" DOS DDMA emulation. The related software was bought by Creative Labs and adjusted for their AudioPCI-clones, SB-Live! and Audigy-1. As far as I know it is all roughly the same program, just that Creative replaced the Soundscape emulation with Sound Blaster 16 emulation. It requires EMM386 to be loaded. It supports OPL-3 and General MIDI music with a software driver. (I only used SB-PCI 128 and SB-Live!). Aureal Vortex 2 does Sound Blaster Pro DDMA emulation. OPL-3 music in software. It is one of the few to have a functional wavetable daughterboard header in DOS. Otherwise no software General MIDI is available. You can use the command "LH AU30DOS.COM" to load the emulator - doing so only takes 1 KB of your base memory. I also tried a more recent Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (Crystal chipset) in DOS once. It worked, doing the usual SB Pro emulation and software OPL-3 music. The wavetable daughterboard header is Windows only. The driver program (TBCDOS.exe) had very few options and was hardly documented. PC/PCI using a Physical SB-LINK connection: PC/PCI is an Intel specification. It works by connecting the PCGNT# and PCREQ# pins on the audio chip to the appropriate pins on the motherboard's South Bridge chip.
Ensoniq, long known for high quality digital gear for musicians, has made its debut into the realm of digital audio workstations. Having waited so long to do so has given Ensoniq the benefit of watching the development of DAWs over the years. As a result, the PARIS, Professional Audio Recording Integrated System, makes its debut as a very strong contender in the DAW market.
Transport controls are found at the bottom right next to the large data/jog wheel. You get Play, Rewind, Fast-forward, Stop, Record, and Play Selection. The data/jog wheel can be used to move through a project, although there is no audio scrub function. The wheel can also be placed in the Edit Object mode. In this mode, the wheel is used to adjust the position of an object on the "Playing Field," as well as its start and end points. Marker controls make it easy to set and locate to markers in a project. There are loop and punch-in controls, a numeric keypad, undo/redo buttons, a monitor level pot, and numerous other buttons. At the top right are controls that affect the selected channel. Press the Select button above fader 3 and the EQ Level, Freq, and Bandwidth controls adjust EQ for that channel. The EQ Band button toggles through the four available bands. The Aux Send button toggles through the eight available sends where the Amount and Pan pots bring quick adjustments to your fingertips.
Sound Blaster is a family of sound cards designed by Singaporean technology company Creative Technology (known in the US as Creative Labs). Sound Blaster sound cards were the de facto standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, until the widespread transition to Microsoft Windows 95, which standardized the programming interface at application level (eliminating the importance of backward compatibility with Sound Blaster), and the evolution in PC design led to onboard audio electronics, which commoditized PC audio functionality. By 1995, Sound Blaster cards had sold over 15 million units worldwide and accounted for seven out of ten sound card sales.[1]
The Sound Blaster 1.0 (code named "Killer Kard"),[3] CT1320A, was released in 1989. In addition to Game Blaster features, it had a 9-voice (11 voices in drum mode)[4] FM synthesizer using the Yamaha YM3812 chip, also known as OPL2. It provided perfect compatibility with the market leader AdLib sound card, which had gained support in PC games in the preceding year. Creative used the "DSP" acronym to designate the digital audio part of the Sound Blaster. This actually stood for Digital Sound Processor, rather than the more common digital signal processor, and was really a simple micro-controller from the Intel MCS-51 family (supplied by Intel and Matra MHS, among others). It could play back 8-bit monaural sampled sound at up to 23kHz sampling frequency and record 8-bit at up to 12kHz. The sole DSP-like features of the circuit were ADPCM decompression and a primitive non-MPU-401 compatible MIDI interface. The ADPCM decompression schemes supported were 2 to 1, 3 to 1 and 4 to 1. The CT1320B variety of the Sound Blaster 1.0 typically has C/MS chips installed in sockets rather than soldered on the PCB, though units do exist with the C/MS chips soldered on.[5]
Compute! in 1989 stated that with Sound Blaster, "IBM-compatible computers have taken the lead in sound and music for personal computers". Naming it a Compute! Choice, the magazine described the quality of the opening music of Space Quest III with the card as "extraordinary", praising the quality compared to the Roland MT-32 and Ad Lib versions. Compute! approved of the card's DMA and Creative's dissemination of technical information, and concluded that while the more-expensive MT-32 was superior, Sound Blaster's audio quality was better than that of Ad Lib or Game Blaster.[12]
Sound Blaster MCV, CT5320, was a version created for IBM PS/2 model 50 and higher and their ISA-incompatible Micro Channel architecture. The MCV Sound Blaster has some issues outputting audio while running on PS/2s with CPUs running faster than 16MHz. However, the joystick interface is still inoperable on PS/2s it was designed for due to the slow-speed Schottky chips that have been installed. None of these timing issues affect the Yamaha YM3812. Some of the MCV Sound Blasters were released with faster Schottkys which eradicated some of the problems.[16]
Packaged Sound Blaster cards were initially marketed and sold into the retail-channel. Creative's domination of the PC audio card business soon had them selling the Sound Blaster Pro 2 OEM, CT1680, to customers for integration into pre-assembled PCs.
Eventually this design proved so popular that Creative made a PCI version of this card. Creative's audio revenue grew from US$40 million per year to nearly US$1 billion following the launch of the Sound Blaster 16 and related products. Rich Sorkin was General Manager of the global business during this time, responsible for product planning, product management, marketing and OEM sales. Moving the card off the ISA bus, which was already approaching obsolescence, meant that no line for host-controlled ISA DMA was available, because the PCI slot offers no such line. Instead, the card used PCI bus mastering to transfer data from the main memory to the D/A converters. Since existing DOS programs expected to be able to initiate host-controlled ISA DMA for producing sound, backward compatibility with the older Sound Blaster cards for DOS programs required a software driver work-around; since this work-around necessarily depended on the virtual 8086 mode of the PC's CPU in order to catch and reroute accesses from the ISA DMA controller to the card itself, it failed for a number of DOS games that either were not fully compatible with this CPU mode or needed so much free conventional memory that they could not be loaded with the driver occupying part of this memory. In Microsoft Windows, there was no problem, as Creative's Windows driver software could handle both ISA and PCI cards correctly.
Released in March 1994, the Sound Blaster AWE32 (Advanced WavEffects) introduced an all new MIDI synthesizer section based on the EMU8000. The AWE32 consisted of two distinct audio sections; the Creative digital audio section (audio codec, optional CSP/ASP chip socket, Yamaha OPL3), and the E-mu MIDI synthesizer section. The synthesizer section consisted of the EMU8000 sampler and effects processor, an EMU8011 1MB sample ROM, and 512KB of sample RAM (expandable to 28MB). To fit the new hardware, the AWE32 was a full-length ISA card, measuring 14 in (360 mm).
When the Sound Blaster Live! was introduced in August 1998, the use of a programmable digital signal processor in PC-audio was not unprecedented, as IBM had already done that with cheap Mwave sound- & modem-cards and Turtle Beach with their professional Hurricane soundcards.
The Live! was built around Creative's new EMU10K1 chip, which contained 2.44million transistors and was advertised of processing a flashy 1,000MIPS. The EMU10K1 (and its successors) did not use on-card RAM/ROM storage for instrument samples, instead it used a PCI busmaster interface to access sample-data stored in the host-PC's system memory. A/D- and D/A- converters as well as analogue mixing is done by an AC'97 chip running at 48kHz sampling rate. All members of the SB Live! family have at least four-channel analog audio outputs and a 15-pin MIDI/Joystick multiport.
For game titles, EAX 1.0 (and later 2.0) (environmental audio extensions, which briefly competed with the now defunct A3D 2.0) added hardware-accelerated acoustic effects. The EMU10K1 provided high-quality 64-voice sample-based synthesizer (a.k.a. wavetable), with self-produced or third-party customized patches or "Soundfonts", and the ability to resample the audio output as input and apply a range of real-time DSP effects to any set of audio subchannels present in the device.
The first model and flagship of the SB/Live family was the SB Live! Gold. Featuring gold tracings on all major analog traces and external sockets, an EMI-suppressing printed circuit board substrate and lacquer, the Gold came standard with a daughterboard that implemented a separate 4-channel alternative mini-DIN digital output to Creative-branded internal-DAC speaker sets, a S/P-DIF digital audio Input and Output with separate software mappings, and a fully decoded MIDI interface with separate Input and Output (along with on mini-DIN converter.) The Gold highlighted many features aimed at music composition; ease-of-use (plug-and-play for musicians), real-time loopback-recording of the MIDI-synthesizer (with full freedom of Soundfonts, and environmental effects such as reverb, etc.), and bundled MIDI-software. 2ff7e9595c
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