Picked up this over at ExtremeTech, the first glimpse of Creative's newest DSP engine for their next line of PCI-Express sound cards.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1813719,00.asp
My notes: STILL won't do 96khz/24bit playback, instead fakes it using a multiband trick to break up the audio spectrum, process it, then spit it back out. Also, if you want to play back sound at a native 44.1khz, you have to manually enable a special mode, the DSP won't simply switch to it. However, at least 44.1 and 48khz sample rates are supported natively, which is nice. I really was expecting more, it's basically a more powerful Audigy2, which incidentally has been around for a full 7 years.
Also, no DICE, so no Dolby Digital encoding. I was really hoping for DD-Live support, preferably over HDMI, but no luck on that.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1813719,00.asp
My notes: STILL won't do 96khz/24bit playback, instead fakes it using a multiband trick to break up the audio spectrum, process it, then spit it back out. Also, if you want to play back sound at a native 44.1khz, you have to manually enable a special mode, the DSP won't simply switch to it. However, at least 44.1 and 48khz sample rates are supported natively, which is nice. I really was expecting more, it's basically a more powerful Audigy2, which incidentally has been around for a full 7 years.
Also, no DICE, so no Dolby Digital encoding. I was really hoping for DD-Live support, preferably over HDMI, but no luck on that.