User`s guide

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Using Your Sound Blaster Recon3D PCIe
Your Sound Blaster Recon3D PCIe 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
Notes
• 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 Recon3D PCIe 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
TM
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 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 theater 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.