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VDMSound allows the user to provide custom mappings for MIDI instruments as well as for joystick buttons and axes. MIDI mappings are particularly useful when the type of MIDI device supported by a game (e.g. MT-32) is different from the type of hardware or software device actually present on the system (e.g. Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth.) [7]
The Platinum 5.1 came with an updated version of the Live! Drive IR with a remote control support. These cards were marketed as Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Gamer and Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 MP3+ It was possible to modify the generation 2 cards to offer 5.1 output by re-programing the 8-pin PROM chip (EEPROM 93c46).
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.)
Sound card Mozart 16 for ISA-16 bus A Turtle Beach sound card for PCI bus Echo Digital Audio's Indigo IO – PCMCIA card-bit 96 kHz stereo in/out sound card A VIA Technologies Envy sound card for PC, 5.1 channel for PCI slot. Sound cards for IBM PC–compatible computers were very uncommon until 1988.
In addition to PCI and PCIe internal sound cards, Creative also released an external USB-based solution (named X-Mod) in November 2006. X-Mod is listed in the same category as the rest of the X-Fi lineup, but is only a stereo device, marketed to improve music playing from laptop computers, and with lower specifications than the internal offerings.
The Game Theater XP (aka GTXP) is a sound card which was developed and manufactured by Hercules. It was first available in the United States in 2001. As of July 2006, it is no longer available on their website. Over the years the GTXP has picked up somewhat of a cult following from computer audiophiles all over the world [1]
Diamond XtremeSound is the first sound card line launched after the company's restructuring in 2003. Diamond XtremeSound - 5.1/16 bit Sound Card (XS51) C-Media CMI8738-LX PCI; Diamond XtremeSound - 7.1/24 bit Sound Card (XS71) C-Media CMI8768 PCI; Diamond XtremeSound - 7.1/24 bit Sound Card with Dolby Digital Live (XS71DDL) C-Media CMI8768+ PCI
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.