Features:

1. Dolby ® Digital Live Encoder
The sound card powered by C-Media CMI8768+ 8ch sound chip with Dolby® Digital Live encoder functionality. It can transform all the digital audio sources into 5.1ch Dolby Digital (AC-3) stream and output to your external decoder or home theater systems via a single S/PDIF optical fiber. Even common stereo music can become 5.1ch digital surround sounds. With the DDLive sound card, you can play your PC games, DVD movies, and music with your Hi-Fi 5.1 Home Theater system in the living room easily.  

2. Xear 3D TM 7.1 Virtual SPEAKER SHIFTER
Xear 3D TM Virtual SPEAKER SHIFTER sound technology allows users to shift each virtual speaker or listener to anywhere to optimize the sound field. Virtual SPEAKER SHIFTER can even deliver up-to-7.1 channel surround sounds over common stereo physical speakers or headphones.

3. Magic Voice TM

C-Media unique Magic Voice TM /Karaoke functionality can reform your voice from male to female, female to male, and so on through the recording process delivering amazing disguise effect for fun in many applications such as Internet phone, messenger, online games, etc. 

4. Microphone Echo and Key-Shifting
These are well designed for Karaoke application. Microphone Echo let your singing voice has echo effect and Key-Shifting can change the music tone to adapt to your voice key for as good as karaoke equipments.  

5. Sound Effects
The card provides 10-band Equalizer with 12 pre-set modes and 27 Environments can make amazing sound effects for your music which common stereo can not offer. It enriches much music enjoyment!

6. Sensaura ® CRL 3D Positional Audio technology and Play3D Demo program
Build-in Sensaura ® CRL3D technology, with 7.1 multi-channel 3D sound output ability bringing you an exciting and realistic experience by reproducing positional audio and sound effects that follow the screen shock! The Play3D Demo program gives you a good trial experience about what 3D sound is.

7. EAX2.0&1.0&A3D 1.0 Supported

C-Media driver supports most game audio including EAX1.0 and 2.0, and A3D 1.0 for immersive gaming sounds.

Specification:

H/W Specification:

•  Full-duplex 8CH playback/2CH recording capability
•  Supports up to 96K/24bit playback; 48K/16bit recording
•  High-quality Analog-to-Analog Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)~ 100dB
•  Optical S/PDIF transmitter supports 44.1k/48k/96KHz sample-rate and bit-to-bit audio accuracy
•  PCI Rev. 2.2 compliant with bus mastering modes
•  Supports the latest Dolby ® Digital EX and DTS ® ES 6.1/7.1CH DVD soundtrack playback
•  Optical S/PDIF input
•  Built-in earphone driver at Front-Out jack (32¦¸ loading)
•  Supports MPU401 MIDI UART port
•  DirectSound™ 3 HW acceleration compliant
•  4 Output analog jacks: Front, Surround, Center/LFE, Back Surround
•  4 inputs connectors: Line-In/Mic-In/CD-In/Aux-IN

Valuable Software Functions:

•  Dolby Digital Live 5.1 (AC-3) real-time interactive content encoder converting all digital audio sources (game audio, MP3, VCD, WMA, ¡­) into 5.1ch Dolby ® Digital stream through S/PDIF output interface
•  C-Media Xear 3D™ 7.1 Virtual Speaker SHIFTER technology
•  Interesting Magic Voice TM feature to disguise users' voice tone in all IP phones (Skype, MSN, Yahoo,¡­), online games, messenger, and Internet DJ/broadcasting applications
•  Unique Karaoke functionality: Mic Echo, Key-shifting, Vocal Cancellation
•  CRL3D ® HRTF 3D positional sound enhancement from Sensaura ® supporting multi-drive 7.1, EnvironmentFX, ZoomFX, MacroFX, etc.
•  Supports most industrial standards of PC 3D sound for gaming, including EAX™ 1.0&2.0, A3D™ 1.0, and DirectSound™ 3 SW
•  10-band Equalizer with 12 preset modes; 27 global environment effects
•  Support 7.1 CH digital audio playback for WinXP, 2K, ME, 98SE (Microsoft ® DirectX V.9.0 above is required)