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The DSS80 was afflicted with a glitch concerning the main volume control. At times, when one of the buttons was held down, the volume would quickly increase to the maximum, or decrease to the minimum setting. The only way to stop this process was to hit the mute button. These issues seem to be resolved when connected to Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Audio channels: A 2.1-channel soundbar has two main speakers and one subwoofer. A 7.1.2-channel system has seven main speakers, one subwoofer and two rear speakers.
Several programs, including MP (Module Player, 1989), Scream Tracker, Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker, and even device drivers for Linux [4] and Microsoft Windows, could play PCM sound through the PC speaker. Modern Microsoft Windows systems have PC speaker support as a separate device with special capabilities – that is, it cannot be ...
Intel High Definition Audio (IHDA) (also called HD Audio or development codename Azalia) is a specification for the audio sub-system of personal computers. It was released by Intel in 2004 as the successor to their AC'97 PC audio standard.
Control channels Controlled source Wave / PCM stereo: Audio signal generated by the CPU via the sound card's digital-to-analog converter. (This includes audio produced by games, MP3 or WAV players, but also some software playing a CD-DA through the CPU, such as, Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic, as well as TV tuner cards that use the CPU for decoding audio.)
The custom sound chip on Amiga, named Paula, has four digital sound channels (2 for the left speaker and 2 for the right) with 8-bit resolution [f] for each channel and a 6-bit volume control per channel. Sound playback on Amiga was done by reading directly from the chip RAM without using the main CPU.
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