User's Manual

Xwave Thunder 3D
6/01/99
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1 Introduction
Congratulations! You have just acquired a sound card based on the most advanced
3D PCI audio accelerator available today. Xwave Thunder 3D is a high
performance PCI audio accelerator jointly developed by Labway Corporation It
combines the most compelling 3D, quadraphonic and music synthesis technologies
available with the powerful yet cost effective ActiMedia DSP architecture. Full H/W
acceleration of DirectSound®, 3D audio, music synthesis, and gameport functions
guarantees exceptional system performance. QSound’s new Q3D algorithms not
only render exceptional 3D soundscapes for 3D applications but add a new dimension
to stereo applications using their unique stereo-to-3D and stereo-to-quad remapping
capabilities. Three available PCI DMA modes assure full SoundBlaster® Pro
compatibility on most platforms without additional hardware. The Intel AC97
architecture provides high quality audio output using a high performance AC97 codec.
1.1 Features:
• Full H/W acceleration of 64 audio sources
• Concurrent processing of up to 384 audio sources
• Up to 64 DirectSound®/wavetable sources processed in H/W
• 64 plus DirectSound® sources processed on host
• Up to 128 total DirectSound® sources
• Up to 64 3D sources
• Up to 64 H/W wavetable voices
• Up to 256 host wavetable voices
• QInteractive interactive positional 3D
• H/W DSP processing for maximum performance
• Proprietary technology eliminates crosstalk cancellation and broadens “sweet
spot”
• QSound Multi-Speaker System stereo-to-quad processing
• Transforms ordinary stereo applications to quadraphonic
• Non-3D games become immersive quad 3D games
• Enhanced DVD movie playback
• True quadraphonic music playback from CD’s, music DVD’s, MIDI files and MP3
players
• Effective with both stereo and Dolby Pro-Logic encoded material
• QSound Environmental Modeling
• Adds reverb as an additional positional queue
• EAX compatible
• QXpander and stereo to 3D remapping
• FM, MIDI stereo and MIDI quad music in Real Mode DOS
• Dual gameport accelerator with legacy and digital joy-stick modes