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hi to all
here is my setup 1st of all

duo core 2.4gig
2.5 gig mem
80gig harddrive

ok now the system only has sambroad caster on and studio station playlist on also music 1 playlist and we are using this P C just for the college station and that it now we order the pci max 300+1w card we put the card in a open slot and it set up on com port 3 and we down load MICRO MAX RM-1 as it was stated to us now we open up sam broadcaster and tried to setup the card to work but sam broadcaster do not see the card and the power cord is connect to the back of the pci max card and the usb is also pluged in please advise what else can be done we have move it to diffrent slot on the mother broad and the micro max see the card but not sam

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Post by berrall »

Go into SAM configuration options then select 'audio mixer pipeline' then click 'air out'
on air 'output settings', select direct sound output and under 'output device' select USB Audio Device (This is the PCI MAX 3000 sound device)
Click OK and all should be done.

I recommend that you take a look at Breakaway Broadcast Processor as this is a killer sound combination for the PCI MAX. Take a look at my settings for BBP on the previous topic.

The sound processor built into SAM gives poor results and lots of overmodulation.
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berrall i did that but sam still didnt see the card nor did sound come out
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Can you hear sound out of the PCI MAX if you set the USB Audio Device as the default sound device in Windows sound properties and use Windows Media Player to play music?
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the card do shows up in the sound device of sam but i need it to broadcast to the lil boom box so i know it broadcasting the sound out of
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There are two devices that must be seen on the PC.

One is the extra COM port, I think you see it already and you've set it up to COM3, correct?
The other is extra audio board.

I would suggest that for a start you use our control program that is standard for pcimax:
http://www.pcs-electronics.com/software ... v40_en.exe

Use it to check (just once) whether the card works as intended. Once confirmed close this
program and start up SAM. Now you know that your problem is with configurations of SAM.
You have the latest version of SAM?
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ok admin i been at this for almost 2 week now and i still havent got no output on the card the card is being seen on com port 3 but when i open winmax 4.0 it sees it on com port 3 also i guess but when it comes to sam broadcaster it does not see it i double check everything i read and i still get nuthing is there a guide to setting up this in the pc if so i would like to try that befor i say i may have a defect card, thank you for your help admin in advance
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1. Let me know what operating system you have, you told me the size of your disk drive, your CPU and RAM, but not operating system.

2. If you looked at the manual tell me to which port you set the USB driver. This is the one you set under control panel->system etc.

Once you tell me these two things we can continue conversation.
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Question number 2?
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i got it working we didnt tell the cfg to send the sound directly to the card when it ask that option so now we got it working and we need to know why the sound cuts off after 15min of playing. then we found that the usb driver are drop out so we have to restart to get them back
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Is it licensed version of SAM? I believe DEMO version cuts off after some time.

Looks like the card works and you have some issues with SAM configuration.

When audio cuts off does the signal also disappear from the radio (hiss starts). If so temp
protection is being triggered and you should have a small fan in your PC enclosure to cool
the PC and the card.
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yes we paid 300usd for the program (sam broadcaster) we also are using studio station playlist but we havent got that to work with that program as of yet
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Play with the settings for the DSP/sound card, the answer is there, something is not configured correctly.

If all else fails write to their forum, I know the guy who develops Sam, he is very helpful and really
knowledgeable.
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704djs wrote:i got it working we didnt tell the cfg to send the sound directly to the card when it ask that option so now we got it working and we need to know why the sound cuts off after 15min of playing. then we found that the usb driver are drop out so we have to restart to get them back
Check your power saving settings, I'll bet the USB ports are set to switch off after 15 minutes. Change it so it's always on.

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I agree, we sold so many of these and these cards are just incredible performers.

I doubt this problem is coming from the card.
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