Philips 4-Channel Sound Card - Manual (Page 2)

4-Channel PCI Sound Card
Arouse your senses and unleash your computer’s speed with
high-impact 3D sound from Philips’ Seismic Edge
™ . Whether your
passion is games, music or movies, Philips’ Seismic Edge will envelop
you in vibrant 3D sound from stereo speakers, headphones or
4-channel surround speakers. Advanced audio algorithms running on
the Seismic Edge’s high-performance hardware accelerator support
the latest multi-channel audio games and DVD movies, and will
transform stereo sources into deep-immersion surround sound.
Compare that to other sound cards!
At the heart of Seismic Edge is a Philips ThunderBird Q3D ™
audio accelerator. This powerful DSP (Digital Signal Processor) can
process up to 128 sounds simultaneously with minimal consumption
of your computer’s power. This hardware acceleration assures
high-fidelity audio and frees your computer to concentrate its
power on better graphics or game speed.
Advanced DSP algorithms from QSound Labs provide compelling
3D for every application. If you have headphones or only two speak-
ers, Seismic Edge applies its patented psychoacoustic algorithms to
envelop you in a virtual sound field created from up to 64
independent voices. Add rear surround speakers for true 4-channel
sound, and Seismic Edge will transform your PC into a personal
home theater, with 4-channel output for 3D games and DVDs.
Manage your music portfolio. Enclosed SIREN ™ XPress
software can create, play and manage your entire audio portfolio –
Internet downloads, MP3, CDs and more – directing Web sources
straight to your hard drive, and applying your custom filters to
playback, cataloging and manipulation.
Make your own MP3 music slide show. Use the enclosed
AudioPix
™ software to combine digital images with MP3 music for
the ultimate multimedia presentation or music video. Transform
wedding and vacation photos into a musical slide show that can be
played back using the Windows Media
™ Player.
SIREN ™ XPress Music Management Software Record CDs
and other music straight to your hard drive at the highest-possible
quality – save songs at near CD-quality (2 minutes per MB) or at full
CD-quality (1 minute per MB) Use it to create your own library of
music! Add names of the song, artist, album and genre type to each
track in your library. Enter information yourself, or use SIREN
™
XPress CDDB link to get the data directly over the Internet.Then,
organize your music collec-
tion with SIREN
™ XPress’
powerful music-management
engine. Use sorting, grouping
and filtering to organize
thousands of songs quickly.
Technical Specifications
Audio Accelerator/Digital Signal Processor
• Philips ThunderBird Q3D
™ DSP for extreme hardware acceleration
Codec
• AC97 CODEC
Digital Acceleration
• 64 streams of 3D audio acceleration
• 128 streams of DirectSound accelerations and digital mixing
• Full-duplex, 48khz digital recording and playback
• 64 hardware sample rate-conversion channels up to 48khz
• Wavetable and FM Synthesis
• DirectInput devices
Music Synthesis
• Up to 576 total Wavetable synthesis voices
• Reverb and chorus
• 64-channel hardware CD-quality (16 bit, 44.1khz) wavetable synthesizer
with 5.9MB sample set
• Hardware FM synthesizer (real mode DOS)
• 512 voice professional-quality soft-synth with XG and GM compatibility
Digital Signal Processor Algorithms
• QSound3DInteractive ™ positional 3D for two speakers, four speakers
or headphones
• QSound Multi Speaker System ™ for quadraphonic output of stereo music,
video and games
• QSound Environmental Modeling for EAX ™ and DirectSound3D ™ games
• QXpander ™ and “2D to 3D remapping” for 3D enhancement of stereo playback
System Requirements:
• One available PCI 2.1-compliant slot
• Genuine Intel‚ Pentium class 133Mhz or faster processor
• Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chip set
• 16MB system RAM
• CD-ROM for driver installation
PSC
704
PSC
704
Recommended Speaker Set -
Philips MMS205 Multi-Channel PC Speaker System
www.philipsusa.com
Printed in USA
Date printed: November 2000
Specifications subject to change without notice.
© 2000 Philips Consumer Electronics Co.
A Division of Philips Electronics North America Corp.
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