Creative Eax Console; Audio Effects: Environmental Sound Processing - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX User Manual

Creative EAX
Console
Audio Effects:
Environmental Sound
Processing
EAX Console allows you to configure the Audigy 2 processor's effects engine.
EAX ADVANCED HD promises to deliver sounds that are so life-like, you can almost
see them! It is the computer industry's first system to recreate and deliver real-
world, interactive audio experiences in games, music, and other audio applications.
These audio effects take your computer beyond home-theater quality, immersing
you in sound so vivid, your imagination can almost "see" it. The effects go beyond
today's surround sound and 3D positional audio to actually model an environment
by taking into account room size, acoustic properties, reverb, echo, and many other
effects that create a real-world experience.
EAX Console consists of four sections: Audio Effects, CMSS 3D, Audio Clean-up,
and Time Scaling.
In Audio Effects, you can choose how you want to enhance all kinds of ordinary two-
channel sounds.
❑ Advanced EQ lets you boost or de-emphasize the low, mid or high frequencies
of sound to suit individual preference and equipment characteristics. Choose
various presets like Jazz or Rock to suit the audio characteristics you like best.
❑ Special Effects let you modify sounds with pre-programmed algorithms so that
male voices can be turned into female voices, or human speech turned into
"chipmunk talk". You can have lots of fun, especially when communicating over
the Internet.
❑ Studio Effects can add standard distortion, wah, delays and chorus effects to an
electric guitar or other musical instrument.
❑ Environmental Effects simulate typical acoustic environments like stadiums,
concert halls, and jazz clubs. By choosing an effect like "concert hall", you can
make any music sound like it is being produced inside a concert hall, with all the
characteristic echos and reverbration. Various settings let you vary the type of
effect, amount of effect applied, and others. If you have connected rear speakers
to your computer, EAX will trick your ears into believing that your room has
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