Philips HARMONIC EDGE PSC602 User Manual

Thank you for enhancing your computer with the Philips Harmonic Edge™.

PSC 602 is the stereo card for you!  You have never heard your computer

sound this good!  You’ll hear full, rich bass, and clear, crisp trebles from all
your favorite games, music or websites.  Experience your computer like
never before!

The heart of your sound card is the powerful Allegro™ audio accelerator
which combines advanced audio and Codec functionality in a highly inte-
grated PCI solution for the multimedia PC.  Plus!! PSC602 is compatible
with all current Windows operating systems and supports the latest gaming
standards, including EAX™ 1.0 & 2.0.  Endulge yourself in full rich 16 bit
CD quality sound with up to 512 voices.

• Full-duplex, 48khz digital recording and playback

• Hardware DSP accelerated algorithms

• 512 Voice professional quality soft-synth with XG and GM compatibility

• DirectSound™, DirectSound3D™

• Stereo, 2 channel speaker or headphone output

• Multi-stream DirectSound and DirectSound 3D Acceleration

• Sensaura CRL Positional 3D

• High-quality sample rate conversion and digital mixing

• Direct Music support

• Realtime effects processing

• Full legacy DOS game support using PC/PCI, DDMA or TDMA hardware

implementation methods

Installation of your Philips Harmonic Edge™ requires the following mini-
mum hardware and operating system:

• One available PCI 2.1 compliant slot

• Intel Pentium

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class or 100% compatible 133MHz or faster processor

Key Features  ..................................................................................5
Minimum System Requirements  ....................................................5
What’s Included  ..............................................................................6

What you need for Installation.........................................................6

Before Installing Soundcard  ...........................................................7
Soundcard Installation .....................................................................8

Soundcard Cable Connections .....................................................10

Windows

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95/98/2000 Installation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Windows

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ME/XP Installation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Yamaha SoftSynthesizer Installation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

About Sensaura Technology ...........................................................18

About Siren XPress ..........................................................................19

About Acid XPress ...........................................................................19

About AudioPix.................................................................................20

Microsoft DirectX Installation..........................................................20

Recording Source Configuration ....................................................21

Uninstalling Software Drivers .........................................................21

Windows

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95/98 Uninstall .............................................................21

Windows

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98SE/ME/2000/XP Uninstall ........................................21

Technical Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

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