![]() ![]() The SB Core3D is the base model, its PCB doesn't have any fancy EMI shield. Today's system processors by Intel and AMD are fast enough to process several DSP layers without impacting on system performance.Ĭreative's new sound cards include the Sound Blaster Sound Core3D (base model), Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional and Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion. For Creative to stay competitive in the sound card industry, it has to do what its younger competitors such as ASUS, Auzentech (to an extant), and HT Omega realized long back, which is focusing on high signal-to-noise ratio (sound fidelity), and DSPs. There still is the third-party OpenAL API, but it is greatly limited and doesn't keep up with the latest sound resolutions. Microsoft Windows NT 6 kernel, used in operating systems since Windows Vista and Server 2008, saw a relocation of the audio stack, that effectively made hardware audio processing useless, because there's no direct access to hardware using DirectSound. FX allows users to morph their voice to remain anonymous. Noise Reduction works to suppress background noise, sending through only the player's voice. Acoustic Echo Cancellation eliminates echos and talkback. The CrystalVoice DSP is another DSP that improves in-game voice chatter. Lastly, Pro Bass is a bass compensation feature that works to restore lossy bass. Dialog Plus controls the mid frequencies to ensure the clearest voice dialog in games (cut-scenes or multiplayer voice chat). ![]() Smart Volume is a volume stabilizer that keeps in check abrupt volume spikes in games. THX TruStudio Pro provides THX TruStudio Pro Crystalizer, which works to improve clarity of lossy compressed audio, TruStudio Pro Surround creates a virtual 360 degree surround space that is touted to be better than the countless earlier attempts by various companies, at virtual surround. THX TruStudio Pro is a DSP set that we're familiar with, some modern sound cards feature it, some motherboard vendors even pack it with their onboard HD audio solutions. Two main DSP sets include Creative CrystalVoice and THX TruStudio Pro. The "quad-core" moniker doesn't refer to there being four processing cores on the sound card, but a set of four DSPs, not necessarily hardware-accelerated, that work to give out the best audio. Unlike with X-Fi which continued the tradition of high-performance native (hardware) audio processing by making use of RISC processors on the card such as the CA20K series, with Sound Core3D "quad-core", the focus finally shifted to the set of DSPs (digital signal processors). Creative's newest sound card technology is called Sound Core3D. It's curtains for the X-Fi generation of sound cards that led Creative's pack through the second half of the last decade. Alongside the Recon3D external audio device for PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Creative announced its latest line of PCI-Express sound cards. ![]()
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