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SPATIAL SOUND CARDDOCUMENTATION

(March 2016)

CONTENTS PAGEDESCRIPTION 2

MAIN FEATURES 2

MAIN APPLICATIONS 2

MAIN DISPLAY 3

VISIBILITY OF THE GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE (GUI) 4

LATENCY AND RESOLUTION INFO 4

SPEAKER AND CHANNEL MONITORING 4

HEADPHONE SURROUND TOGGLE 5

EDIT MENU SELECTOR 5

EDIT MENU 5

FORMAT 6

OUTPUT AND DRIVER SETTINGS 6

LOCATION 6

ROOM PARAMETERS 7

HEADPHONE EQ 7

THE MENU BAR 7

CONTACT 8

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DESCRIPTIONThe Spatial Sound Card software is the first VR application by New Audio Technology. It is highly recommended not only for gamers but movie enthusiasts and music lovers. It comes straight from the professional production domain and is a software based, virtual sound card. It provides virtual speakers for stereo and surround monitoring (5.1 and 7.1) on any computer with regular headphones. Professional monitoring of audio content usually requires complex, high quality speaker installations, that need both budget and space. The Spatial Sound Card enables monitoring of stereo and surround sound using virtual speaker environments with regular headphones on a computer. Now the end user can experience immersive game, music and movie entertainment on a professional quality level, too. As a virtual sound card the Spatial Sound Card is inserted between playback application, operating system and audio hardware. The room virtualizations originate from high end music studios and film mix stages. The technology built-in the Spatial Sound Card was used on well-known major Hollywood blockbuster Blu-Ray releases since more than 15 years. To optimize the virtualization the Spatial Sound Card provides parameters to customize the frequency response curve of the used headphones. Presets for well known headphone models are included. The Spatial Sound Card works with all applications that support stereo and surround audio output. These include games and media players like VLC, iTunes and Netflix as well as the main output of your operating system.

MAIN FEATURES• Up to 8 channel PCM audio input in 44.1 – 48Khz and 16-32Bit

• Stereo and surround (5.1 – 7.1) format support

• Very low latency and CPU tax

• Virtual speaker systems at five different locations

• Discrete speaker / input monitoring and level adjustment

• Master level access of audio output device

• Free output routing to audio hardware

• Headphone sound compensation

• Works with any regular stereo headphone

MAIN APPLICATIONSThe user needs just regular headphones to:

• Play games with impressive spatial localization of all audio events in the game and a richer natural sound experience.

• Watching DVD movies and VOD content in stereo and surround sound as sitting in a high quality home cinema system.

• Experience music without any unnatural pingpong and in-head localization effects as the music producer in the recording studio do.

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MAIN DISPLAY

Klick on the SSC headline and logo to get version and manufacturer info

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VISIBILITY OF THE GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE (GUI)MAC:

• Klick on the red button to hide the GUI.

• Klick on the yellow button to see the small GUI.

• Klick on the green button to see the standard GUI.

WIN:

• Klick on Cross to hide the GUI

• Klick on the underline to see the small GUI.

• Klick on the square button to see the standard GUI.

LATENCY AND RESOLUTION INFO

You can find a real time monitoring of current processing latency of the whole signal flow and the audio resolution in the headline of the application.

SPEAKER AND CHANNEL MONITORING

• White colour indicates that the speaker / channel works in standard mode.

• Click M for MUTE mode (Red). This function disable the audio playback of this speaker / channel.

• Click S or simply on the speaker icon for SOLO mode (Yellow). This function disable the audio playback of all other speaker / channel.

• The volume knop let you decrease the volume down to no output (mute) and boost the level up to +12db. A double click on the knob rests the level to standard 0db.

(Small GUI Display)

(Small GUI Display)

(Standard GUI Display)

(Standard GUI Display)

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HEADPHONE SURROUND TOGGLE

The HEADPHONE SUROUND selector toggles between virtualization on or off. If it is disabled stereo sources are just pass trough and surround sources are simply downmixed to stereo.

EDIT MENU SELECTOR

The edit menu selector opens the edit menu and displays always selected Location, format and output device.

EDIT MENU

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FORMAT

The FORMAT selector switch the format of the operating system. A warning screen will appear and reminds you that it could be necessary to restart current audio applications.

OUTPUT AND DRIVER SETTINGS

The OUTPUT selector enables to rout the SSC output to available audio devices on as well as connected to the computer. External audio devices are supported if they provide a WASAPI driver for Windows.

The DRIVER SETTINGS allows the SSC to become to be the standard audio device of the computer when it launch.

LOCATION

The SSC use real measured studio speaker systems for the virtualization. The LOCATION selector offers five different speaker virtualizations. The different is in the place where they was measured and the kind of speakers.

Commonly audio tools use for such applications names like Music, Film, Pop, Rock, Classic etc. But listening is a highly emotional and personal issue. So different listener definitely prefer to us different Locations for different audio sources what makes such classification useless.

So we decide to give the locations names and pictures of well-known locations who are not confirm to audio classifications what let the listener decide if he wants to play his 5.1 game in New York, enjoy stereo music in Paris, and watch 7.1 movies in Shanghai.

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ROOM PARAMETERS

The ROOM PARAMETERS belongs to the selected Location and can set differently for each Location. It edits the room reflections of the measured environments. Sometimes e.g. when playing a game it sounds much more precise if the ROOM ENVELOPE is short. A movie adventure might sound better in a bit larger location with longer reflections. So the user has a lot of opportunities to find his favourites.

The reflections of the SSC measurements are not reverb but the sound of the room. The professional studio rooms who are included in the measurement are of course treated well. Hence the reflections, also from the SHORT presets, let the SSC virtualizations sounding well controlled and alive.

HEADPHONE EQ

The HEADPHONE EQ has two applications.

The first is to compensate the sound of the used headphones. Some presets for well known models are available and more will follow. Like that the sound of the virtual speaker system gets more value.

The second application is simply to modify the sound for personal taste e.g. by boosting the bass.

THE MENU BARMAC WINDOWS

Known features like visibility and virtualization toggle are available here again. Furthermore the new function ‘Keep always on top’ is available. This option might help for editing the SSC if a movie or game is running but should not cover the SSC GUI.

Finally this is the place to exit the application.

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CONTACT

New Audio Technology GmbH

Warnholtzstrasse 4

22767 Hamburg

Germany

Fon +49 40 386 101 67

Mail mail@newaudiotechnology.com

Web www.newaudiotechnology.com