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I have tried all of the other drivers that 'claim' to work for what is known as the PCI Multimedia Audio Device to no avail. I found this driver on the Dell website. Apparently it is Dell who keeps putting these cards in our computers with no way of reloading the drivers. Anyway it says it is for a soundblaster but it works perfect for the difficult to find PCI Multimedia Audio Device. Hope it works for you.i had tried everything else on this site and was about to give up. Uploaded By Andre' (DG Member) on 2002-02-26 18:58:11 Most Helpful Reviews.

Ensoniq AudioPCI Towards the end of the 1990s, was struggling financially. Their cards were very popular with PC, but their costs were too high and their musical instrument division was fading in revenue. Pressure from intense competition, especially with the dominant, was forcing audio card makers to try to keep their prices low. The AudioPCI, released in July 1997, was designed primarily to be cheap. In comparison to the wide variety of chips on and sheer size of the older Soundscape boards, the highly integrated two chip design of the AudioPCI is an obvious shift in design philosophy.

The board consists only of a very small software-driven audio chip (one of the following: S5016, ES1370, ES 1371) and a companion (DAC). In another cost-cutting move, the previously typical chip used for storage of samples for was replaced with the facility to use system RAM as storage for this audio data. This was made possible by the move to the, with its far greater bandwidth and more efficient interface when compared to the older standard. AudioPCI, while designed to be cheap, is still quite functional. It offers many of the audio capabilities of the Soundscape ELITE card and surpasses the other Soundscape cards. Notably, AudioPCI supports several digital effects (, and ) when used with and later versions of Windows.

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AudioPCI had some surprises for the market. It was one of the first cards to have 4-speaker playback support. The 4-speaker mode is only activated by software supporting the DirectSound3D mode. An oddity is that the rear channel was connected to the same output jack as line input.

The jack switches modes if 4-speaker output became active. The DOS and Windows drivers support sample-based synthesis through Ensoniq's '.ecw' patch set format. Several patch set choices are available, varying in size and instrument quality (2, 4, or 8 ). The '.ecw' file format (Ensoniq Concert ) was never made open as had been hoped for by enthusiasts.

Consequently, there are very few custom wave sets available, in contrast to the huge availability of home-made releases in 's format. It was particularly unfortunate because the AudioPCI used system for patch set storage which in itself offers tremendous potential for new patch sets over the traditional ROM storage previously used.

It is also disappointing considering the incredible popularity and longevity of the Ensoniq ES1370 chipset and its descendants, some of which were still in use six years after the original AudioPCI board, and the fact that DOS drivers for the far newer still use '.ecw' wave sets. These newer cards are unable to use SoundFonts in DOS, limiting them to the three official.ecw wavesets from the late '90s and one incomplete unofficial waveset. DOS compatibility. The AudioPCI supported games and applications using a software driver that would install during DOS, or the real-mode, boot-time portion of Windows 9x. This driver virtualized a -compatible ISA sound card through the use of the PC's and a program.

This allowed the AudioPCI to have more compatible out-of-the-box DOS support than some of its PCI competitors for the time. For example, the competing Monster Sound from was limited to running DOS games in -based DOS command windows, meaning DOS compatibility was frequently only reliable through an additional ISA sound card. Creative was struggling with the challenge of legacy support as well, and had created the SB-Link, an interconnect that allowed access to the serial- and PC/PCI grant/request sideband signals offered by some PCI chipsets of the time, in order to achieve DOS compatibility for their -variant PCI sound cards. SB-Link was also used by a number of other chipset vendors, such as. While Ensoniq's approach generally worked with most games, some older games had problems detecting the virtualized hardware on some systems. In addition, the DOS driver required a memory manager such as to be loaded, which not only required additional conventional memory space but also put the CPU into Virtual-86 mode, conflicting with games that utilized a modified form of, called 'flat mode'. This mode allowed fast, direct access to the system's entire RAM without requiring a memory manager or memory protection mechanism.

This is not a requirement exclusive to AudioPCI, however, as a number of ISA sound cards used it as well, including the Creative AWE ISA series. The AudioPCI DOS driver included Ensoniq Soundscape 16-bit digital audio and sample-based synthesis support, along with support for,.

However, without actual hardware for, FM music and sound effects were simulated using samples, often with unacceptable results. Therefore, it was practical to configure DOS games to utilize the General MIDI synthesizer and digital sound effects, whenever possible, for better sound quality. DOS MIDI utilizes the same.ecw patch set files as Windows MIDI. Creative acquisition.

Part of the deal when Ensoniq was purchased by was to integrate the AudioPCI DOS driver into the upcoming. Creative added emulation to the driver and removed the Ensoniq SoundScape support. AudioPCI itself was re-branded as several Creative Labs sound cards, including the PCI 64, PCI 128, Vibra PCI, and others. The audio chip was renamed Creative 5507 and revised into -compliant variants, the ES1371 and ES1373, and used for several more years on card and as integrated motherboard audio. Cards with ES1370 run natively at 44 kHz sampling frequency, meaning that 12, 24, 32 and 48 kHz become resampled. Means lower sound quality, worse synchronization and possibly higher CPU utilization.

Cards with ES1371 run at 48 kHz conforming to AC97, so 11, 22 and 44 kHz become resampled. For few soundcards feature multiple quartzes or a PLL, resampling is often used with all its potential problems. Malvern (which was the former Ensoniq company that had been acquired) later released the Ectiva 1938 (EV1938). This single chip PCI audio controller was based on the ES1371/ES1373 and was register compatible with these previous chips.

The main difference between the EV1938 and previous chips was the inclusion of a built-in codec (hence producing a cheaper, single chip audio solution). The EV1938 was also used for both integrated audio on laptops/motherboards and on cards, such as the 'Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64V' (CT4730).

PCI Bus Digital Audio and Music Controller. The ES1370 was developed. One important feature of this chip was that it used the bus, instead of the ISA bus commonly used by sound cards at that point. It was one of the first PCI sound card solutions to offer legacy compatibility without special hardware extensions to the standard PCI slot.

When paired with a capable, such as the AK4531 (pre-AC'97), the ES1370 supported the then-latest in 3D audio positioning through 4-speaker surround sound. The chip was also a PCI bus master device that was designed to provide high-speed access to system and resources, for sample synthesis data and effect processing. Depending on the drivers, it may also be called the in the device manager.

ES1370 was one of the first audio chips to support the Microsoft audio. When programs took full advantage of the API's capabilities, the ES1370 was capable of both global spatial and localized 3D sound effects, in both 2 and 4-speaker mode. The chip was capable of spatializing all audio automatically, but still required DirectSound3D usage for specific localization of sounds. The ES1370 is also emulated as a piece of virtual hardware in.

Ensoniq ES1373 AudioPCI Ensoniq/Creative ES1371 and ES1373 (AudioPCI 97) are -compatible versions. Sample sets: 2, 4, and 8 sets. 128 General MIDI sample-based instruments, 61 drum programs, 128 MT-32 instruments, Roland GS Sound set in 4 & 8 MB sets. Synthesizer: Up to 32 simultaneous voice, 16 MIDI channels. Digital effects: reverb, chorus, and spatial enhancement.

Digital audio. 16-bit record & playback at up to 48 kHz (mono/stereo). Codec.

Lowest Noise: 90 dbr typical.: 20 Hz - 22 kHz. operation (simultaneous record/playback).

and output — ES1373 only. Supported standards. 100% DOS legacy game compatible (allegedly; some games fail to detect the virtualized hardware and/or clash with Virtual-86 mode):. ENSONIQ Soundscape, Microsoft Direct Audio (DirectX), OpenAL, Sound Blaster Pro (2), General MIDI, MT-32 (although with different instrument sounds), AdLib/FM (simulated via sample-synthesis), 1,2,3. Drivers: DOS,Windows (3.1, 9x, NT 4.x, 2000, XP), The CT5880 chip is a relabeled ES1371, may be found on some cheap cards i.e.

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