Philips PSC704 User Manual

4-Channel PCI Sound Card

• Surround yourself with true quadraphonic playback of any game,music or movie – even stereo sources

• Hear high-impact 3D sound using two,three or four speakers

• 64 distinct 3D voices,128 distinct DirectSound voices, and 576 distinct Waveable voices

• Unleash your computer’s speed with extreme acceleration from Philips ThunderBird Q3D™Digital Signal Processor (DSP)

• Music portfolio management made easy with SIREN™XPress MP3 software

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4-Channel PCI Sound Card

Arouse your senses and unleash your computer’s speed with

high-impact 3D sound from Philips’ Seismic Edge™. Whether your passion is games,music or movies, Philips’ Seismic Edge will envelop you in vibrant 3D sound from stereo speakers, headphones or 4-channel surround speakers. Advanced audio algorithms running on the Seismic Edge’s high-performance hardware accelerator support the latest multi-channel audio games and DVD movies,and will transform stereo sources into deep-immersion surround sound. Compare that to other sound cards!

At the heart of Seismic Edge is a Philips ThunderBird Q3D

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audio accelerator. This powerful DSP (Digital Signal Processor) can process up to 128 sounds simultaneously with minimal consumption of your computer’s power. This hardware acceleration assures high-fidelity audio and frees your computer to concentrate its power on better graphics or game speed.

Advanced DSP algorithms from QSound Labs provide compelling 3D for every application. If you have headphones or only two speakers,Seismic Edge applies its patented psychoacoustic algorithms to envelop you in a virtual sound field created from up to 64 independent voices. Add rear surround speakers for true 4-channel sound,and Seismic Edge will transform your PC into a personal home theater, with 4-channel output for 3D games and DVDs.

Manage your music portfolio. Enclosed SIREN™XPress software can create,play and manage your entire audio portfolio – Internet downloads,MP3, CDs and more – directing Web sources straight to your hard drive,and applying your custom filters to playback,cataloging and manipulation.

Make your own MP3 music slide show. Use the enclosed AudioPix™software to combine digital images with MP3 music for the ultimate multimedia 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, ar tist, album and genre type to each track in your library. Enter information yourself, or use SIREN

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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.

Technical Specifications

Audio Accelerator/Digital Signal Processor

• Philips ThunderBird Q3D

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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

• DirectInput devices

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

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positional 3D for two speakers,four speakers

or headphones

• QSound Multi Speaker System

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for quadraphonic output of stereo music,

video and games

• QSound Environmental Modeling for EAX

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and DirectSound3D™games

• QXpander

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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

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