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:

 

2X Analog

 

Original

Output

 

Signal

Converted

Digital

 

Digital Data

Data

 

 

 

 

Playback

Record

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