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DirectSound

DirectSound is a deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, superseded by XAudio2. It provides a low-latency interface to sound card drivers written for Windows 95 through Windows XP and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams. DirectSound was originally written for Microsoft by…

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DirectSound3D

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Upper limit of sampling rate

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DirectSound

Nodes79
Edges78
Triples127
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

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DirectSound

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related to Windows Vista/Windows 7 · 20
DirectSound → APIs, ASIO, Because, DirectMusic, DirectSound3D, EAX, However, In, In Windows Vista/7, IOCtl, It's, Microsoft, MME, OpenAL, The, Third-party APIs, Universal Audio Architecture, WASAPI, Windows Audio, Windows Vista
related to Windows 9x · 19
DirectSound → API, DirectMusic, DirectSound3D, Dsound, If, If DirectSound, In Windows, Kernel Audio Mixer, KMixer, Me, On Windows, Second Edition, SRC, Under WDM, VxD, WDM, WDM Audio, Windows, Windows Me
related to Replacement implementations · 13
DirectSound → After, ALchemy, Audio Effects, Creative, Creative ALchemy, DirectSound3D, EAX, For, OpenAL, Sound Blaster Audigy, Sound Blaster X-Fi, Sound Blaster's Creative ALchemy, Windows Vista
related to Windows 2000/XP · 12
DirectSound → Acoustic Echo Cancellation, AVStream, Beginning, In Windows, In Windows XP, KMixer, Microsoft, USB, WDM, WDM-based, Windows NT, Windows XP
related to Upper limit of sampling rate · 9
DirectSound → Applications, ASIO, Sampling, The, To, USB-DACs, WASAPI, Windows, XAudio2
related to Windows 8 · 8
DirectSound → DirectMusic's, DirectSound's, UAA, Vista, WASAPI, WDF, Windows, Windows Runtime
related to DirectSound3D · 7
DirectSound → API, DirectSound3D, DirectX, DS3D, In DirectX, Microsoft, Windows
related to External links · 7
DirectSound → DirectXAudio, Glossary, Internet Archive, MSDN DirectSoundWhat's, PC Gaming Wiki, Sound, Windows VistaCreative ALchemy
related to Windows CE · 3
DirectSound → Although DirectSound, Waveform Audio API, Windows CE
is a · 2
DirectSound → deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, mature API

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audio windows sound hardware card driver provides directsound3d applications 3d acceleration mixing support also openal software microsoft kmixer wasapi use

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DirectSoundis adeprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system0.90text
DirectSoundis amature API0.90text
recordinginstance ofDirectSound provides other essential capabilities0.80text
mixing soundinstance ofDirectSound provides other essential capabilities0.80text
adding sound effectsinstance ofDirectSound provides other essential capabilities0.80text
background musicinstance ofwhich holds continuous sounds0.80text
and ainstance ofwhich holds continuous sounds0.80text
Sound Blaster AWE32instance ofsound cards0.80text
Gravis Ultrasound featured dedicated DSPsinstance ofsound cards0.80text
which were borrowed from the digital music instrumentsinstance ofsound cards0.80text
Sound Blaster Liveinstance ofLater cards0.80text
Acoustic Echo Cancellation for USB microphonesinstance ofhardware acceleration was also added for DirectSound capture effects processing0.80text

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