Aztech PCI288-Q3D II, Руководство пользователя

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PCI 288-Q3D
II
Sound Card User’s Manual
3D Positional Sound
3-Dimensional Positional sound allows you to hear sound from every
direction in 3D space.
A3D™
3D Positional audio standard produced by Aureal.
Active (amplified) Speakers
Speakers having a built-in amplifier and therefore requiring an external
power supply such as an AC adapter.
API
Application Programming Interface. An interface that defines the functions/
operations a programmer uses, to write software routines, sometimes specific
to a type of hardware.
DirectX™ drivers
Microsoft’s set of standardized APIs (application programming interfaces)
for games and multimedia applications. With these standards, programmers
are able to write programs that access the hardware features of the computer
without knowing exactly what hardware will be installed on the machine
where the program eventually runs.
DLS
Downloadable Sounds. It provides a means for game developers and
composers to add their own custom sounds to the GM sound set stored in a
sound card’s ROM. DLS-compatible devices will automatically download
these custom sounds from the card, disk or CD-ROM into system RAM,
allowing MIDI music to be freely augmented with new instrument sounds,
dialog or special effects, providing an unlimited palette of sounds.
Glossary