Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z User Manual
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- Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 1
Xonar Essence STX Audio card User manual - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 2
for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ("ASUS"). Product warranty or service will not be extended if: A COMMITMENT BY ASUS. ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 3
1.3 Specifications summary 2 2. Xonar Essence STX card layout 4 3. Installing the hardware 6 3.1 Preparing your computer 6 3.2 Installing the Xonar Essence STX card 7 3.3 Connecting to a TV tuner card 8 4. Installing software 9 Installing the card driver 9 5. Connecting speakers - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 4
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no failure. If you require assistance please call ASUS Customer Service 1300 2787 88 or visit us at http://support.asus.com. iv - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 5
a qualified service technician or your retailer. This symbol of the crossed out wheeled bin indicates that the product (electrical and electronic equipment) should not be placed in municipal waste. Check local regulations for disposal of electronic products. Trademarks Xonar and ASUS logo are - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 6
contents • ASUS Xonar Essence STX PCI Express audio card • 3.5mm-to-RCA cable x1 • 3.5mm-to-6.3mm adapter x1 • S/PDIF TOSLINK optical adapter x1 • Support CD • Audio Precision Test Report 1.2 System requirements • One PCI Express 1.0 (or higher) compatible slot for the audio card • Microsoft - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 7
Audio Performanc-eCompatible with X1, X4, X8, X16 PCI Express slots Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted): ASUS AV100 High-Definition 5.1 surround sounds to your through one single S/PDIF gaming or chatting. connection Xonar Essence STX provides VocalFDXo, - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 8
/27 Environment Effects DirectSound3D GX 2.5 & 1.0, EAX2.0&1.0, DirectSound HW, DirectSound SW, OpenAL generic modes, 128 3D sounds processing capability Supports 44.1K/48K/96K/192KHz @16/24bit with very low latency *Specifications are subject to change without notice. ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 9
2. Xonar Essence STX card layout 6 7 8 1 2 9 3 4 5 No Item 1 Front Right Out port 2 Front Left to your headphone, before the connection, adjust the headphone impedance settings in the Xonar Essence STX Audio Center to match your headphone impedance. Connect your external PC microphone to this - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 10
of the front panel audio cable to the front panel audio header on the Xonar Essence STX card, with the other end to the chassis-mounted front panel audio I/O module. Usually connects to the Analog Audio output of TV tuner card or other sound source inside your PC system. (To monitor your TV tuner - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 11
to avoid static electricity. 4. Remove the chassis cover. 5. Remove the metal bracket from an available PCI Express x1 slot for the Xonar Essence STX audio card. 6. Carefully insert the audio card into the PCI Express x1 slot. Ensure the audio card sits properly in place. ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 12
all cables. 5. Plug the power cord to the computer and to a power outlet. 6. Power ON the computer. The PCI Express high-quality audio card requires additional power from your computer. If the power cable is not connected properly, the audio card will not work at all. ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 13
3.3 Connecting to a TV tuner card 1. If you have a traditional PCI or PCI Express TV tuner card on your PC, you may need to connect it to the Xonar Essence STX card to send the tuner card's sound to your PC speakers. 2. Secure the PCI/PCI Express TV tuner card and screw it into the back-panel. 3. - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 14
error may occur. 1. After you have installed the Xonar Essence STX card, turn on your computer. Windows® automatically detects the HDAV card and searches for device drivers. When prompted for the drivers, click Cancel. 2. Insert the support CD into the optical drive. If Autorun is enabled - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 15
) The Xonar Essence STX supports Dolby Digital Live technology, which transcodes any audio, including games and music, into industry-standard Dolby Digital surround bit-streams. This makes playback through your home theater system possible, creating an immersive and impressive cinema surround sound - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 16
5.2 Connecting stereo headphones Headphone Out The Headphone Out port has a built-in high-quality amplifier to drive headphones. Connect your stereo headphones to the Headphone Out port son the Xonar Essence STX card. ASUS Xonar Essence STX 11 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 17
's 3.5mm plug to the bundled RCA-to-3.5mm Y cable, and then connect the Left/Right ends to the Front Left/Right Out ports on the Xonar Essence STX card. 12 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 18
plug to the bundled RCAto-3.5mm Y cable, and then connect the Left/Right ends to the to Front Left/Right Out ports on the Xonar Essence STX card. 1 Microphone Input port Connect your external PC microphone to this port by using the bundled 6.3mm-to-3.5mm adapter for voice communication, recording - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 19
CD/MP3 Player or any other Line level analog audio sources to this Line-In port by using the bundled 6.3mm-to-3.5mm adapter for sound recording or real-time Dolby sound processing through the Monitoring path (See the Mixer section of the driver guide). 14 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 20
of the Xonar Essence STX driver on the Xonar Audio Center. The following picture shows a basic overview of the Xonar Audio Center. The following sections of this manual will describe its functions in more detail. 4 Minimize button 1 Close button 2 5 6 7 8 3 9 ASUS Xonar Essence STX 15 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 21
Normalization" feature for constant volume from all playback sources. It will display a blue light when enabled. These 4 buttons give access to quick sound effects combinations for Music, Games, DVD Video, and effect-free (Hi-Fi) modes. NOTE: Default DSP Mode is OFF. 16 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 22
S/PDIF digital interface will output. The Xonar Essence STX card can support sample rates up to 192KHz (44. audio source's sample rate, the Xonar Essence STX engine will do super high playback sources, for optimal audio fidelity. The Xonar Essence STX card supports sample rates up to 192KHz (44.1K, - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 23
speakers. Xonar Essence STX will play the channels and do the proper 3D/Dolby sound processing accordingly manually to test. Clicking this button allows you to select the gain tuning according to your headphone impedance. The setting is also available for FP Headphone. 18 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 24
5.1ch encoding This advanced setting will automatically upmix stereo (2ch) content to 5.1 channel surround with Dolby Pro-Logic II when using Dolby Digital Live output. ASUS Xonar Essence STX 19 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 25
, 2D games => 2 channels -DVD-Video with Dolby Digtial or DTS 5.1 => 6 channels -DVD-Video with Dolby Digtial EX or DTS ES => 8 channels -3D games => 8 channels 20 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 26
speaker or listener to a different relative position "virtually" using only your mouse. The Xonar Essence STX card will process it and virtualize each speaker position in real-time. The Subwoofer has no directional sounds, and hence can be moved only closer or further away. Reset all Speaker Shifter - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 27
bar will switch the right window to the Pro-Logic IIx page for manual adjustments. This parameter is used to set the spread of the center, vocal sound range. Reset all settings to the defaults. The dimension parameter fades sounds to the front or rear of the listener. 22 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 28
movies, and listening to music. Dolby Headphone produces surround sound cues so realistic that you will believe you are text bar will switch the right window to Dolby Headphone page for manual adjusting. Note: 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter and Dolby Pro-Logic effect. ASUS Xonar Essence STX 23 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 29
Virtual Speaker technology simulates a 5.1-speaker surround sound listening environment from as few as two will switch the right window to a Dolby Virtual Speaker page for manual adjusting. Dolby Virtual Speaker provides two modes of virtualization: The first picture. 24 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 30
MIDI files - CD: CD-ROM digital playback (CD-DA) volume control - LEFT, RIGHT...: the volume control for each speaker/ channel NOTE: Windows® Vista does not support WAVE, Synthesizer and CD-In volume controls. Reset all volume controls to the default settings ASUS Xonar Essence STX 25 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 31
panel audio module, enable "Front Panel Microphone". For typical low-cost PC microphone, it's recommended to enable this function. (continued on the next page) 26 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 32
card audio or other sound sources Line-In: recording from Line-in jack for external audio devices WAVE: recording from digital wave audio you are playing on PC (Note: Windows Vista doesn't support WAVE recording.) Click to reset all volume controls to the default settings. ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 33
environments. There are a total of 27 environment options, which can be applied to all 2D sound sources, like music. 3 1 2 No Item 1 Default environments 2 More options 3 Environment size There are three size settings for each environment: Large, Medium, and Small. 28 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 34
Defined" equalizer setting Click this "+" button to save the parameters into User Defined list Click this "-" button to delete the parameters from User Defined list ASUS Xonar Essence STX 29 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 35
6.5 Karaoke The Xonar Essence STX provides powerful features for Karaoke, including KeyShifting, Vocal Cancellation, and Microphone Echo. Key-Shifting can change the pitch Echo function and adjust the gain for echo signals (30~16KHz) Reset all settings to the default. 30 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 36
management and enhancement mechanism, allows you to select each satellite speaker's type for optimal sound performance from the speakers. (Small: common speaker that cannot produce low frequencies; large speakers are different. Orange: large speakers Green: small speakers ASUS Xonar Essence STX 31 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 37
(20~250Hz) for LFE (lowfrequency effects) signals. Xonar Essence STX will filter out the bass signals below the crossover frequency from small speaker channels and forward them to the subwoofer. The higher the crossover frequency, the more bass signals will be subtracted. 32 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 38
keeps all music or video/TV audio output at a constant level to reduce manual adjustment hassles inherent with sound sources of different loudness. It allows you to listen to various content, like quieter. Music 1 0dB (Full-scale) Music 2 SVN Off SVN On T -10 dB - ASUS Xonar Essence STX 33 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 39
SVN is enabled, "Smart Volume" will be lit up at the bottom of the volume meter and the volume meter will show the level. 34 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 40
DS3D GX doesn't require games to support OpenAL API. All existing games compatible with Microsoft DirectX and DirectSound 2D/3D will be supported with DS3D GX technology. Before you setup. (Note: no sound effects will be applied to high-definition 96KHz/192KHz content.) ASUS Xonar Essence STX 35 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 41
Hi-Fi Mode 3 Music Mode 4 Movie Mode 5 Game Mode Description DirectSound 3D Game Extensions mode to support EAX and DirectSound 3D Hardware extensions for lots of DirectX/ DirectSound3D games on Windows Vista. This mode is DVD Movie playback. This mode is set for Games. 36 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 42
pitch to different types for disguising your real voice or just for fun in online chatting. You can add VOIP application into VOIP application List. ASUS Xonar Essence STX 37 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 43
in the list, press Add.(Make sure the Skype and MSN Messenger are the latest version) 3. Look for the application's location and Open it. 38 ASUS Xonar Essence STX - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 44
"Cancel" if you want to enable it later. Check "Don't remind me again" if you don't want to see this message pop up next time. ASUS Xonar Essence STX 39 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 45
't appear, please try installing the driver package again. I cannot hear any sound from my analog speakers Instructions: 1. Xonar Essence STX card needs the power cable to supply addition power in addition to the basic PCI Express bus power. Double check you have plugged the small 4-pin power plug - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 46
on the recording mixer page 3. If you are using a TV tuner card which has digital audio output instead of analog, check that the sound is not muted and whether other applications can play sound out. If you still have problem, read the TV tuner card's software user guide. ASUS Xonar Essence STX 41 - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 47
effects when playing 96K or 192KHz sound sources. Instructions: 1. Currently Xonar Essence STX effects including Dolby supports common 44.1K, 48KHz sound sources processing and will assure high-definition audio (96K/192KHz) in hi-fidelity playback. This is also usually the behavior that professional - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 48
and speakers Q6: What is the most important benefit of the Xonar Essence STX for musicians? Answer: 1. Ultimate Fidelity: Xonar Essence STX has the highest quality of audio in/out for the cleanest sound production. 2. Duplex HD: Supports audio sampling rates up to 24bit/192KHz for all inputs and - Asus 90-YAA0C0-0UAN00Z | User Manual - Page 49
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