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Diamond Multimedia Systems has partnered with Aureal
Semiconductor to deliver the latest and most realistic audio
system possible for your PC.
This chapter describes the A3D positional audio technology that
is at the heart of your Monster Sound MX300 card, and includes
some useful audio configurations you can set up with the MX300
card.
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Aureal’s
A3D Interactive
is a positional 3D audio technology.
Positional 3D audio—also known as interactive 3D audio—allows
for interactive, on-the-fly positioning of sounds anywhere in the
three-dimensional space surrounding a listener. Support for this
technology has been incorporated into software applications such
as video games to create a natural, immersive, and interactive
audio environment that closely approximates a real-life listening
experience.
Your MX300 audio system aims to digitally reproduce a highly
realistic sound field. To achieve the best possible effect, an A3D
system recreates all of the listening cues to which a human ear
responds: outer ear effects, occlusions, reflections, and so on. A
typical first step to building such a system is to capture the
listening cues by analyzing what happens to a single sound as it
arrives at a listener from different angles (see following
illustration).
