The comp.sys.apple2 Usenet newsgroup Apple II FAQs originate from the II Computing Apple II site, 1997-2012. Csa2 FAQs resource file: R013PHASOR.TXT Phasor Sound Card Mini-Manual Notes: This is a pure Text file which has no Font, Color, etc. formatting and no set line length. For best viewing on-line, set browser Word Wrap to ON or copy to your favorite Text viewer and set Word Wrap. Ex: On PC use WordPad with Options set to "Wrap to Window". To correctly view tables and diagrams on a super-res display, use a mono-spaced Font such as CoPilot or PCMononspaced. ____________________________ PHASOR SOUND CARD MINI-MANUAL or All About the Applied Engineering - Phasor Apple ][ Sound Card! Compiled and edited by Charles T. Turley I've wanted to have a Phasor Apple ][ Sound Card for years, if for nothing else, just to be able to check it out and see exactly what it can and can't do. Ever sense I saw it at an AppleFest show, at the Applied Engineering booth display, I've been looking around for a Phasor sound card at a really reasonable price. The Phasor is fairly rare and hard to fine today. As I recall, less than a thousand were sold. I was lucky to find a nearly new Phasor Apple ][ Sound Card for $3 (US) in a local flea market just last weekend. The Phasor hasn't been commercially made and sold ever sense Applied Engineering went out of business.These days your best place to find one would be in Apple ][ computer swaps, used computer stores, bargain stores, thrift shops, flea markets, BBS', usergroups or ocassionally they might be offered for sale or trade in the newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2.marketplace. Another possible source for the card, manual and/or software from Australia is noted below. Applied Engineering Terry Cass 13 Sunlight Drive Burleigh Waters 4220 Gold Coast Qld. Terry was a former distributors of AE equipment in the SE Asia region, and now repairs AE equipment and cards, as well as continuing to sell stock left since AE went out of business. Phone 61 7 55 75 9099 Fax 61 7 55 78 8874 Web page: http://mars.nettrek.net.au/appleserv/welcome.html email: applserv@mars.nettrek.net.au Phasor is a MockingBoard compatible style sound card that was made and sold by Applied Engineering. Looking at the software that comes with the Phasor may be helpful to MB users. If you should be able to obtain one of these Phasor sound cards but, didn't get the manual and/or software with it, perhaps the following might be of help to you. The software consist of four 5.25 disks and the information concerning them, their functionality and where to obtain them is listed with links below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor1.dsk ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor2.dsk ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor3.dsk ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor4.dsk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- About: phasorx.dsk with x = (1-4) Software name.........: Phasor utility disk (AE sound card) Computer..............: Apple II=. IIe and/or IIgs Format................: ProDOS Disk Operating System.: ProDOS 8 Disk Contents: Utilities for the Applied Engineering Phasor Sound Card. Configuration & Test Utilities Music Player Speech Program Songs and noises Music Editor Sound Builder Currently available (as noted above with the ftp direct file links for all four disks) as Apple ][ disk emulator image files from the Apple ][ Emulator Asimov ftp archive site, they can be converted to Apple ][ 5.25 disks for use with the card in your Apple ][ using the DSK2FILE (v4.3 or 5.5), available from Ground, and other archives. (See Csa2FLUTILS.TXT .) The Phasor is a amazing and unique designed Apple ][/IIgs sound card. It works with the Apple IIgs but, WILL NOT function as a true Stereo card with any IIgs program that uses the actual Ensoniq DOC chip. The Phasor provides twelve sound channels with a varity of wave-form patterns and effects included, a lot like FM-synthesis. The Phasor sound card has four white noise generators and a unique one-voice synthesized speech channel, expandable to 2 speech channels. The Phasor also features it's own 4 watt amplifier that can drive stereo speakers (left & right). It's compatible with most older sound cards, like the Mockingboard, ALF, SMS and Echo+. The four DIP switches control emulation modes and standard Apple ][ internal speaker sound-level (only if you disconnect internal speaker and have old speaker toggling sent to Phasor). Switches #1 and #2 are for emulations. Switches #3 and #4 control your old internal speaker sounds, provided you have the speaker disconnected and the pin located on motherboard connected to Phasor sound card You can set Low, Medium and High volume with three different DIP positions. The DIP positions won't alter the Phasor music/sound however. To do that, you must turn those two pots you asked about. Each controls either the left or right stereo channel. Turning them clock-wise increases volume, and you probably don't want this too high up, or sound gets distorted! Put both on an equal setting, unless you want one channel louder/softer than the other. Phasor DIP switch emulation modes: ______________________________________________ Native Phasor mode: 1: closed, 2: closed Mockingboard mode: 1: opened, 2: closed Echo+ mode: 1: opened, 2: opened The Phasor is more of a II+ and IIe sound, speech and stereo card. But, can be used with the IIgs, virtually bypassing the Ensoniq DOC in every respect. Actually it is a jazzed out styled Mockingboard clone stereo, speech, sound card, all in one card. It can function with it's programs as; music player, speech program, song and noise creation utility, Music Editor and special effects sound Builder In the IIgs it's a real tight fit, but it does fit. It works in the IIgs just fine.Bbut there is little reason to install it in one beyond having the better sound built-in. IIgs specific stereo digitizers and/or sound cards using the Ensoniq DOC are more impressive. However, it's possible to have and use both the Phasor and other Stereo digitizers and/or sound cards in the IIgs. There are four sound chips (General Instrument AY-3-8913) on the Phasor each capable of 3 voices and 1 white noise generator. So, totaled it presents 12 voices plus 4 white noise channels. There's also a fifth sound chip that's speech synthesis specific, labeled (SSI263 AP) N8513, with an empty socket next to it, if you want to add another, if two voices talking at the same time are desired. It does clean stereo output and also has a four watt amplifier on the card. With the DIP switch settings you can use three modes: Native Phasor mode, Mockingboard emulation and Echo+ emulation. The game Ultima V is supported by the Phasor sound card. As should be most Mockingboard specific games and all such Apple ][ sound related software. However, some programs do search for either a specific ID byte or address to locate the presence of a Phasor card and use of it. The Phasor sound card was sold new with two 5.25 double sided disks, consisting of; Configuration & Test Utilities Music Player Speech Program Songs and noises Music Editor Sound Builder General references and information derived from; Deja News Archives: 1995 thru 1997 http://www.dejanews.com