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Introduction

We are pleased to introduce you to Intel's Realistic 3D Sound Experience Software Developer's Kit (SDK). This online documentation describes how RSX 3D audio complements graphics for creating a more realistic 3D environment and highlights the benefits and features of using RSX 3D to add sound to your applications' 3D environments. It also provides a brief overview of the the other topics you will find in this documentation.

The introduction discusses these topics:

 


Overview

The RSX 3D audio library, provides a simple interface for audio rendering. This library makes adding audio to 3D environments very straightforward. RSX 3D's modeling of sound's physical properties and its ability to represent a wide range of audio sources can help you create a 3D audio environment for your application.

Now applications can use the capabilities of both sight and sound to make the user's experience more compelling. Sound can complement the use of graphic objects in three key areas:


Benefits of the RSX 3D System

The RSX 3D system provides a number of significant benefits to content developers and application/game developers. These include:


Features of RSX 3D

The RSX 3D system provides a set of high-level services for the playback of realistic audio. The key to RSX's realism is the sound model it uses to reproduce 3D audio for sound sources (see Section 2.2). This algorithm forms the basis for the library of interfaces that RSX 3D provides to let you control streaming, audio localization, mixing, reverberation, Doppler effects, pitch, and MIDI files.

Figure 1 shows the context of the RSX 3D library in the Windows environment and shows how RSX 3D integrates with on-line documents, other Intel products, third-party products, and OS (Operating System) services.

Figure 1. Architectural Overview

RSX includes these features:


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