Philips PSC70217 - Manual (Page 2)

3D PCI Sound Card
Technical Specifications
Audio Accelerator/Digital Signal Processor
• PHILIPS ThunderBird Q3D™ DSP for Extreme Hardware Acceleration
Codec
• AC97 CODEC
Digital Acceleration
• 64 streams of 3D audio acceleration
• 128 streams of DirectSound accelerations and digital mixing
• Full-duplex, 48khz digital recording and playback
• 64 hardware sample rate-conversion channels up to 48khz
• Wavetable and FM Synthesis
Music Synthesis
• Up to 576 total Wavetable synthesis voices
• Reverb and chorus
• 64-channel hardware CD-quality (16 bit, 44.1khz) wavetable synthesizer
with 5.9MB sample set
• Hardware FM Synthesizer (real mode DOS)
• 512 voice professional-quality soft-synth with XG and GM compatibility
Digital Signal Processor Algorithms
• QSound3DInteractive
™ positional 3-D for two speakers or headphones
• QSound Environmental Modeling for EAX ™ and DirectSound3D ™ games
• QXpander ™ and 2D to 3D remapping for 3D enhancement of stereo playback
System Requirements:
• One available PCI 2.1-compliant slot
• Genuine Intel‚ Pentium class 133Mhz or faster processor
• Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chip set
• 16MB system RAM
• CD-ROM for driver installation
Experience intense gaming and concert effects. Rhythmic Edge
provides the most powerful 2-channel 3D audio available, with intense
game sound effects and concert hall realism for all genres of music. You’ll
hear every creaking door and screeching tire in your favorite game, and
you’ll be able to pick out every detail from the latest jam session.
Breeze through complex audio demands. Rhythmic Edge effort-
lessly delivers up to 64 individual 3D voices, 128 individual DirectSound
voices, and 576 individual wavetable voices, while processing enhance-
ments such as “positional 3D” within the card itself.
Supercharge your computer. An unusually powerful chip design
assumes the load of calculations that other sound cards normally force
onto the host computer. This design relieves your computer of per-
forming enormously complex audio processing – resulting in noticeably
faster, richer gaming effects and more convincing three-dimensional
audio sound fields.
Manage your music portfolio. Enclosed SIREN ™ XPress software
can create, play and manage your entire audio portfolio – Internet down-
loads, MP3, CDs and more – directing Web sources straight to your hard
drive, and applying your custom filters to playback, cataloging and manip-
ulation.
Make your own MP3 music slide show. Use the enclosed AudioPix
software to combine digital images with MP3 music for the ultimate mul-
timedia presentation or music video. Transform wedding and vacation
photos into a musical slide show that can be played back using the
Windows Media
™ Player.
SIREN ™ XPress Music Management Software. Record CDs and
other music straight to your hard drive at the highest-possible quality
– save songs at near CD-quality (2 minutes per MB) or at full CD-
quality (1 minute per MB) Use it to create your own library of music!
Add names of the song, artist, album and genre type to each track in
your library. Enter information yourself, or use SIREN
™ XPress CDDB
link to get the data directly over the Internet.Then, organize your
music collection with SIREN
™ XPress’ powerful music management
engine. Use sorting, grouping and filtering to organize thousands of
songs quickly.
PSC
702
PSC
702
Recommended Speaker Set -
Philips MMS203 3-piece PC Speaker System
www.philipsusa.com
Rhythmic Edge 3D PCI Sound Card
Printed in USA
Date printed: November 2000
Specifications subject to change without notice.
© 2000 Philips Consumer Electronics Co.
A Division of Philips Electronics North America Corp.
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