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	ION Storm Blasts Into the Realm of Environmental Audio
		By utilizing Creative's cutting-edge Environmental Audio technology, ION Storm's sound design team was able to add intense levels of game play with special effects that generate a new kind of audio excitement in fierce and dramatic combat scenes.
		Environmental Audio goes beyond 3D positional audio -- sounds will appear to come from all corners of a room or space adding reverb, echo and other effects consistent with the room acoustics, position of the player, source of the sound, and many other cues.
		Developers are using Creative's Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX) application programmer's interface (API) to develop for this new audio standard.
	www.digitalproducer.com /pages/ion_storm_blasts_into_the_realm_.htm (554 words)

	Environmental audio extensions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The environmental audio extensions (or EAX) are a number of digital signal processing presets for audio, present in Creative Labs later Sound Blaster sound cards and the Creative NOMAD/Creative Zen product lines.
		The effects engine, actually an E-mu 8011 DSP integrated into the audio chip, was historically used to enhance MIDI output by adding effects (such as reverb and chorus) to the sampled instruments on sample-based synthesis cards (also known as wavetable).
		EAX is a library of extensions to Microsoft's DirectSound3D API, adding environmental audio presets to DS3D's audio positioning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Environmental_audio_extensions (677 words)

	Creative Labs Introduces Environmental Audio Extensions
		The Environmental Audio Extensions developer's kit was successfully launched at Creative's annual developer's conference, Creativity '98, in Silicon Valley and London, England, and at the Computer Game Developer's Conference earlier this month.
		Environmental Audio goes beyond just positioning 3D audio around the user to actually modeling environments in real time that can include special effects such as reverb, echo, room size, underwater effects and much more.
		Based on E-mu Systems' patented audio technologies, the EMU10K1 is the first audio processor capable of 1,000 MIPS of raw processing power with the capability of channeling many and varied audio sources while adding special effects like reverb, echo, acoustic properties, doppler and much more in real time.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-27-1998/0000666031&EDATE= (1198 words)

	Page 11 - Audio Hardware
		The underlying issue common to all 3D sound cards is that of positional audio, which refers to adjusting features such as reverberation; balance; and apparent sound "location" to produce the illusion of sound coming from in front of, beside, or even behind the user.
		One very important element in positional audio is HRTF (Head Related Transfer Function), which refers to how the shape of the ear and the angle of the listener's head changes the perception of sound.
		Creative Labs' Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX) has become the de facto standard for 3D audio since the demise of Aureal's A3D in mid-2000.
	www.devhardware.com /c/a/Sound-Cards/Audio-Hardware/10 (1665 words)

	The battle for gamers' ears may spill into the living room \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The struggle pits audio superpower Creative Labs Inc. and its upstart rival Aureal Semiconductor Inc. While PC games is the main battlefield right now, the mainstream consumer audience is also at stake.
		Environmental Audio promises to deliver high-fidelity 3-D audio and sound effects on the PC.
		Environmental Audio approximates room size in 3-D games and uses special audio effects to create the illusion of a 3-D environment.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595-511573.html (1160 words)

	Review: Diamond Monster Sound MX300 PC sound card
		This is not 16 channels of audio divided among the four speakers - this is 16 sounds simultaneously, with each sound delivered through any or all of the four speakers, with the extra processing that enhances the surround effect.
		EAX - Environmental Audio eXtensions, the PC environmental reverb standard created by Creative Labs, makers of the Sound Blaster line, but made an open standard for anyone to use.
		Audio signals in your speaker wires are alternating current, with the rapidity of the alternations corresponding directly to the motion of the speaker cones and the pitch of the sound that comes out.
	www.dansdata.com /MX300.htm (3493 words)

	Corporate: Public Relations
		With its industry-standard audio solutions - cost effective audio chipsets to advanced high-performance digital processors - Creative has the right combination of industry-leading technology, price and performance to offer OEMs the differentiation they need in the competitive PC market.
		With 128-note polyphony, multiple reverb effects, chorus and 3-D Positional audio algorithms, PC users will be impressed with the exceptional sound quality when listening to audio-enabled applications or playing their favorite games.
		Creative's Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX) are property sets that extend Microsoft's DirectSound and DirectSound 3D.
	us.creative.com /corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?pid=6265 (867 words)

	New opcodes of DirectCsound
		The simplest property (found in the listener property set) lets you select an environmental preset—that is, to specify the type of room in which you want the listener and sound sources located.
		In sound design you decide what environmental audio effects you’d like to hear, where you’d like to hear them, and what quality those effects should have.
		In the easiest approach to environmental audio, you don’t really need to spend any time with sound design other than deciding what kind of environment you want your listener and sound sources to populate.
	www.csounds.com /maldonado/Manual/surroundpcodes.html (12374 words)

	Analog Devices : SoundMAX : Products - FAQ - About Software - Game Audio Technology FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		SPX is primarily involved with the creation of sounds rather than just adding effects to sounds, as is the case with EAX or Environmental Audio eXtensions.
		SoundMAX SPX (Audio Rendering Technology) was first developed by Staccato Systems, a leading audio technologies developer acquired by Analog Devices in 2001.
		Historically, game audio has been implemented as an afterthought, done at the last minute with the smallest of budgets.
	www.soundmax.com /products/faqs/SMAXfaq21ch3.html (500 words)

	EETimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Still, the entrance of Creative to the 3-D audio game is encouraging to Aureal, because Creative's name power could help push sophisticated audio technology into the PC mainstream, said Toni Schneider, Aureal's vice president of strategic alliances.
		The card is a pivotal piece of Creative's Environmental Audio platform, introduced at the E3 trade show in May, which the company hopes will become a standard for audio on the PCI bus.
		Creative is also trumpeting Environmental Audio's ability to enhance the sound in legacy applications, making the EAX extensions applicable to thousands of past game titles.
	www.eetimes.com /news/98/1023news/creative.html (938 words)

	Audio2
		If you plan to do professional audio editing, you'll probably need more than just the standard stereo out, headphone out, and microphone in connections.
		You want to make sure the most recent implementations of 3D audio extensions are supported, such as EAX - Environmental Audio eXtensions).
		Other things to look for are how many audio simulatneous audio streams are supported, how much memory it has, how many "voices" it supports, whether Dolby Digital 5.1 / EX (6.1) decoding is supported, the recording quality (24 bit, 96 kHz is great), the output quality (24 bit, 192 kHz is great), etc.
	www.basichardware.com /audio2.html (374 words)

	Scotsmist Personal Computer Support Appendix, The Glossary E
		Environmental Audio is a system developed by Creative that recreates and delivers real-world, interactive audio experiences on the PC.
		Environmental Audio goes beyond today's surround-sound and 3D positional audio to actually model an environment with powerful effects that take into account room size, acoustic properties, reverb, echo and many other effects that create a real-world experience.
		Extension - The suffix or the characters following the period in a filename such as mountain.jpg.
	www.scotsmist.co.uk /glossary_e.html (2319 words)

	Gamasutra - News "Microsoft to License Creative's EAX Audio Effects Processing Technology for DirectX" ...
		Microsoft announced a licensing agreement with Creative Labs for a number of recording-studio-quality audio effects found in Creative's Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX), an API used to add environmental sound effects to 3D games.
		Creative's EAX API is a popular environmental audio standard among developers, supported in more than 50 PC games currently shipping.
		Microsoft hopes that by combining EAX technology from Creative with applications written to the Microsoft DirectSound and Microsoft DirectMusic APIs, developers can take audio to a new level of realism in multimedia applications, encouraging the proliferation of high-quality PC audio.
	www.gamasutra.com /newswire/bit_blasts/19990618/index.htm (142 words)

	Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		EAGLE was conceived as a flexible development tool and can be modified to allow for quick and easy Environmental Audio support on a variety of platforms, such as Microsoft's DirectX or the forthcoming Open AL API.
		Creative's Environmental Audio goes beyond 3D audio, adding reverb, echo and other effects consistent with the room acoustics, position of the user, source of the sound and many other cues.
		Environmental Audio improves any direct sound 3D audio content with intense acoustical effects that give a sense of ambience with preset settings for a variety of room types.
	asia.creative.com /corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?pid=8148 (877 words)

	Creative Advanced Technology Center: Audio Research: Spatial Sound
		In both cases, the audio engine must mix and render multiple moving sounds in real time (over headphones, a pair of loudspeakers, or a multi-channel loudspeaker array).
		Recreating acoustic reflections and reverberation is the indispensable complement to 3D positional audio for compelling 3D game experience as well as in music production or playback.
		A subset of EAX forms the basis of the recently completed I3DL2 standard adopted by the interactive PC audio industry (http://www.iasig.org/).
	www.atc.creative.com /algorithms/spatial-sound.html (375 words)

	GameSpot: EAX 2.0 Launched (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While it seems like Creative Labs is still ramping up support for its Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX), and titles using the 3D positional audio API are just beginning to show up in marketplace, the company is already launching EAX 2.0.
		While Creative is calling its extensions new, you may recognize some of the lingo from Creative's audio competition - Aureal and its A3D API.
		Occlusion allows you to hear the sound of a battle or an opponent from the next room as the sound reflects off walls.
	www.gamespot.com /news/2465445.html?print=1 (237 words)

	EAX & EAX Advanced HD - General Information and Essential Troubleshooting
		The Audio Tour playlist is queued in the Now Playing list by default so it will be the first thing you will see when you boot up a new Creative Jukebox 3.
		A collection of environment presets, simulating real-life audio environments, such as Concert hall, Cathedral, and Auditorium, is made available for your audio playback enhancement.
		Advanced EQ A collection of equalizer settings, aimed at adjusting audio frequencies to playback content and compensating for the imperfections in the listening environment, lets you enhance your audio according to its genre.
	ask.americas.creative.com /wwenglish/general/eax.htm (1397 words)

	Analog Devices : SoundMAX : Products - FAQ - Game Audio Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These technologies are applied to upcoming games through the developer's use of a complete software development toolkit for rendering hyper-realistic sounds based on real-world or imagined events in games for the PC platform, as well as for the Microsoft XBOX and Sony PlayStation2.
		These SPX audio technologies were first developed by Staccato Systems, a leading audio technologies developer acquired by Analog Devices in 2001.
		SPX revolutionizes game audio, allowing game sound designers to move beyond the constraints of the past.
	www.soundmax.com /products/faqs/gameaudio.html (619 words)

	The Adrenaline Vault \| News \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Creative Labs announced that its Eagle 3D audio modeling tool will soon be distributed to enhance and promote Environmental Audio Extensions implementation in future games.
		Eagle gives sound designers complete control over environmental audio effects used in their applications, thus allowing the effects to be rendered in real-time via Creative's line of Sound Blaster Live!
		The development tool can be modified to allow for Environmental Audio support on a variety of platforms, such as Microsoft's multimedia API or the forthcoming OpenAL API.
	www.avault.com /news/displaynews.asp?story=392000-104834 (364 words)

	TDK Electronics - Knowledge Bank - veloCD - Soundcards
		In addition to sporting audio inputs and outputs, Creative's Sound Blaster cards (and most other brands of consumer soundcards) have a built-in chip that automatically plays MIDI music whenever you encounter it on the Web, in video games or elsewhere.
		Some are fairly simple, offering a few audio inputs and outputs, while others include built-in digital multi-track mixers and effects processors.
		USB units have the advantage of being plug-and-play, and since all USB based units are external, the audio converters can be kept a safe distance from the noise inducing insides of your computer.
	legacyproducts.tdk.com /support/howto/soundcard.html (1104 words)

	ComputerUser.com - Ripped PC - It's all in the cards
		Creative's EAX (Environmental Audio eXtensions) is another strong contender offering audio features beyond those in DirectX.
		From an I/O standpoint, inputs and outputs should consist of internal CD audio in and aux audio in, as well as external mini-jacks for front and rear stereo speakers, microphone in, and line in.
		Of course, audio is very subjective; what sounds good to you may not appeal to me. Regardless, avoid budget and no-name adapters, and make sure the card you choose supports 5.1 audio.
	www.computeruser.com /articles/2302,12,84,1,0201,04.html (843 words)

	Sound Blaster Live
		By taking multiple sample points of the sound source to generate the waveform, the audio reproduced is precise and almost no different from the actual sound.
		With the option of up to eight multiple speaker support in the near future, you are no longer limited in your 3D audio applications.
		The MIDI interface on the extension card uses a MIDI DIN connector which can be connected to any regular MIDI cable, so that musicians need not use custom MIDI adapter cables to connect their MIDI compatible devices.
	www.advantage.co.nz /products/sdc1027.htm (1204 words)

	CHALLENGES F SOUND DESIGN FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
		Attempting to respond to the player's actions as immediately as possible almost by definition means that the computer, its peripherals-and, by extension, the programmers, sound designers and other game creators-are constantly up against the wall, banging into technical limitations to the desired game experience.
		Sound cards with real-time DSP, such as Creative Labs' SoundBlaster LIVE!, have begun to penetrate the market and are supported by interactive environmental processing managers like Creative's EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions) to Windows' DirectSound.
		Real-time environmental processing, which usually includes filtering to simulate occlusion, will soon significantly enhance the quality of ambiences in interactive products.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_challenges_sound_design (2976 words)

	Environmental Audio Extensions - Wikipedia
		Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX) ist ein von Creative Labs entwickeltes, proprietäres System, um Umgebungsgeräusche in Computerspielen so real wie möglich erscheinen zu lassen.
		Die neueste Version ist EAX HD (=High Definition Audio) 5.0 und wird von der neuen X-Fi-Serie von Creative Labs unterstützt.
		Ehemaliges Konkurrenzformat zu EAX war A3D, nach dem Aufkauf der Entwicklerfirma Aureal durch Creative wurde es jedoch nicht mehr weiterentwickelt.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Environmental_Audio_Extensions (188 words)

	TechEnclave - View Single Post - FS: Creative Live! Value
		Excellent overall audio fidelity is achieved with an average Noise Floor of -120 dB, a level unheard of in the PC industry.
		Produce surround-sound audio on your PC with built-in support for two or four analog speakers.
		Environment Audio Extensions is an open standard that allows the broadest support from software developers.
	www.techenclave.com /forums/59718-post1.html (860 words)

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