Creative SB1500 manual Using Your Sound Blaster Z-Series, Playing Games, Creative ALchemy

Using Your Sound Blaster Z-Series

Your Sound Blaster Z-Series works seamlessly with many external devices to perform different tasks. To learn more about these tasks and how to connect additional devices, consult the following sections:

•Playing Games

•Watching DVDs

•Playing / Recording Music

•Creating Music

•Chatting / Gaming

Note

•Actual products may differ slightly from those shown in this chapter.

•The cables shown in this chapter may be bundled with your peripheral or are available separately from www.creative.com.

•For more information on the Creative peripherals mentioned in this chapter, visit www.creative.com.

Playing Games

Your Sound Blaster Z-Series is specially designed to enhance audio in games using Creative's cutting edge audio technologies. Playing games will be more exhilarating than ever before!

To learn more about the following audio technologies, visit www.soundblaster.com.

EAX ADVANCED HD

Make your games come alive with EAX® ADVANCED HD™ and immerse yourself in worlds that their creators envisioned!

Hear multiple audio effects being played simultaneously, and precise environment settings applied to them to create a life-like environment and heighten the sense of realism.

Each effect is also accurately positioned in its 3D environment, allowing you to tell where it is coming from relative to your location, and you will be able to discern where your teammates and enemies are using only these audio cues.

EAX ADVANCED HD is a weapon that will give you the competitive edge, especially in multiplayer games.

Creative ALchemy

Creative ALchemy is a powerful tool that restores the audio for a DirectSound®3D game running on Windows 7 or Windows 8 to its former glory - in full surround sound with hardware accelerated audio mixing, sampling rate conversion and EAX effects.

Dolby Digital Live

Dolby Digital Live is a real-time encoding technology from Dolby Laboratories that converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through your home theatre or digital speaker system.

Transform your gameplay into an exciting and realistic experience using Dolby Digital Live. Audio cues and effects that follow the onscreen action are reproduced, immersing you in 5.1 channel surround sound that puts you at the center of the action.

To learn more about Dolby Digital Live, visit www.dolby.com.

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