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SOUND CARD VERSIONS Environment perception The aim of EAX is to create more ambience with 3D sound in games. This is accomplished via simple HRTF Function s for discrete sound, and a global environmental reverb effect. Newer versions of EAX added multiple reverbs to be applied simultaneously with smooth transitions between. Most versions of EAX increase the number of simultaneous voices able to be processed: the original EAX 1.0 supports 8 voices, EAX 2.0 allows 32, EAX 4.0 supports 64, and EAX 5.0 allows 128 voices (and up to 4 effects applied to each). AUDIO PLAYER VERSIONS In the portable audio players produced by Creative, especially the Creative NOMAD and Creative Zen lines, EAX means something else than for sound cards. Here, it applies a few possible effects to played back audio on the device, including:
The first NOMAD jukebox also had support for pseudo- Surround Sound using rear speakers by supporting two different audio output plugs on the device. The addition of these effects to the audio is not very popular, will use up additional battery resources and is generally a quite mysterious feature to most owners. It might have been introduced only to sell players to computer-game people who were familiar with the EAX concept and would therefore hold this feature in high regard. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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