Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum User Manual page 56

CMSS 3D: Simulating
Surround Sound
Audio Clean-up:
Removing noise and
distortion
❑ 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 reverberation. 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 turned into a concert hall
or jazz club. EAX becomes more effective as the number of speakers connected is increased. It
supports up to 6 speakers and one subwoofer.
❑ Karaoke Effects let singers add high-quality echo to add richness to their voices. Users can also vary
the music's pitch to suit their vocal range.
Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) 3D makes ordinary two-channel (Left and Right Stereo) sound
seem to surround you, even through only two speakers. For users with 5.1 or 6.1 multichannel speaker
systems, CMSS can also simulate surround sound from ordinary stereo. This is useful for watching DVDs
and VCDs, which contain only stereo soundtracks.
Select CMSS for multichannel audio enhancement on 4/4.1, 5.1 or 6.1 speaker systems, and CMSS2 for
movies.
Note:
For a 4/4.1-speaker system, audio for your subwoofer is processed by the speaker system.
Audio Clean-up allows you to process prerecorded as well as real-time audio, in order to remove noise,
click sounds and other artifacts. For example, when recording music from old vinyl records, "click" and
"pop" sounds can be removed with the Clean-up feature. The Click Meter informs you whenever the noise
clean-up feature is activated during recording and also how many clicks are removed.
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