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Using Your Sound Blaster Z-Series
Your Sound Blaster Z-Series 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:
l Playing Games
l Watching DVDs
l Playing / Recording Music
l Creating Music
l Chatting / Gaming
Note
l Actual products may differ slightly from those shown in this chapter.
l The cables shown in this chapter may be bundled with your peripheral or are available separately
from www.creative.com.
l For more information on the Creative peripherals mentioned in this chapter, visit
www.creative.com.
Playing Games
Your Sound Blaster Z-Series 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.
EAXADVANCEDHD
Make your games come alive with EAX
®
ADVANCEDHD™ 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.
EAXADVANCEDHDis 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 or Windows 8 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 theatre 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 DolbyDigital Live, visit www.dolby.com.
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