CREATIVE Sound Blaster - Manual (Page 34)

Sound Blaster Applications 4-6
Creative EAX
Console
EAX Console allows you to configure the 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.
Audio Effects:
Environmental
Sound Processing In Audio Effects, you can choose how you want to enhance all kinds of ordinary two-
channel sounds.
CMSS 3D:
Simulating Surround
Sound Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) 3D makes ordinary two-channel (Left and
Right Stereo) sound seem to surround you, even through only two speakers. This is
useful for watching DVDs and VCDs, which contain only stereo soundtracks.
Audio Clean-up:
Removing noise and
distortion 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.