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  2. Windows legacy audio components - Wikipedia

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    When the sound card uses a custom driver for use with the system supplied port class driver PortCls.sys or implements a mini-driver for use with the streaming class driver, applications can bypass the KMixer completely and use the kernel streaming interfaces instead to directly interact with audio driver and reduce latency. Windows 98 includes ...

  3. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista also includes the ability to calibrate speakers to a given room's acoustics automatically using a software wizard. [7] Windows Vista also includes the ability for audio drivers to include custom DSP effects, which are presented to the user through user-mode System Effect Audio Processing Objects (sAPOs). [8]

  4. Universal Audio Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP Service Pack 3 also includes the updated driver, as well as Windows XP Professional x64 Edition with Service Pack 1 and 2. In Windows Vista, the Windows Logo program requirements state that any machine shipped with Vista must include a UAA-compliant audio device that works without additional drivers.

  5. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Sound Recorder in Windows Vista can no longer open audio files. Moreover, it cannot save in lossless (uncompressed) WAV format when run without using any switches; instead, it saves in lossy 96 kbit/s WMA format. Only the version of Sound Recorder from the N editions of Windows Vista saves audio in WAV format by default. [133]

  6. DirectSound - Wikipedia

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    DirectSound is a deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, superseded by XAudio2.It provides a low-latency interface to sound card drivers written for Windows 95 through Windows XP and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams.

  7. Windows Sound System - Wikipedia

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    WSS 1.0a drivers were released in February 1993. They introduced single-mode DMA, supported games in MS-DOS, Ad Lib and Sound Blaster emulation. [4]WSS 2.0 drivers, released in October 1993, added support for OEM sound cards (Media Vision, Creative Labs, ESS Technology) and included an improved DOS driver (WSSXLAT.EXE) that provided Sound Blaster 16 compatibility for digital sampling. [4]

  8. Environmental Audio Extensions - Wikipedia

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    Creative ALchemy (Windows Vista and Windows 7 only, is used for providing EAX in Vista) Console Launcher (Entertainment Mode) Audio Console; Karaoke Player; Creative WaveStudio; Creative MediaSource; Unlike its predecessor, Audigy Advanced MB, X-Fi MB does not include a software-based SoundFont synthesizer. Another difference is that it has the ...

  9. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise support Windows Flip, which displays a dynamic thumbnail of each open window—instead of an application icon for each window—on a Windows Aero glass surface and replaces the Alt+ Tab ↹ interface of previous versions of Windows; and Windows Flip 3D, which enables users to flip ...