Asus Audio Card Xonar D2 - Manual (Page 82)

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Q6: What’s the most important benefit of the Xonar D2 for musicians?
Answer:
1. Ultimate Fidelity: Xonar D2 has the highest quality of audio in/out (118dB
SNR, -108dB THD+N) for the cleanest sound production
2. Duplex HD: Supports audio sampling rates up to 24bit/192KHz for all inputs
and outputs
3. ASIO 2.0: Xonar D2 includes an ASIO 2.0 driver for low-latency, low-distortion
music creation application
4. Bundled Music Creation Software: Professional-grade Ableton Live and
Cakewalk Production Plus Pack (Sonar LE, Dimension LE, Project5 LE)
5. Xonar D2 comes with an additional MIDI bracket board for music creators to
connect dedicated MIDI devices
6. Xonar D2 contains the Portable Music Processor, to convert and process
regular music with Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker, and Smart
Volume Normalization effects.
Q7: Does PMP software decrypt and violate the DRM of the copyright
content? What’s ALT technology in PMP software?
Answer:
No, PMP software is not able nor intended to decrypt DRMed content. It’s just a
software tool used to record the analog output signal from the line-out and then
convert it into WMA and MP3 files. If you have Windows Media Player 10 or iTunes
DRMed music, you are required to have the valid digital rights to play it, so that
PMP can record it from analog output just as any other software recorders. Xonar
D2 provides Analog Loopback transformation (ALT) technology to accelerate the
playback speed (2X, only on Windows XP) and record the accelerated analog
signal. PMP will convert the signal back to the normal speed with very high-quality
(118dB SNR), low distortion (-108dB) time-scaling algorithm. ALT technology can
shorten the total conversion process. Please refer to the graph below:
Playback Record
Original
Digital
Data
Converted
Digital Data
2X Analog
Output
Signal