EAX:
ALchemy enables DirectSound3D game's audio to be processed by your Sound Blaster Audigy or Sound Blaster X-Fi to deliver EAX effects, 3D audio, sample rate conversion and hardware audio mixing on Windows Vista / Windows 7.Details of EAX are as follows (source: Creative Labs):
EAX 1.0: Environmental Effect Presets, 32 individual 3D voices, Per-channel individual environmental presets, Hardware DSP Rendering.
EAX 2.0: Occlusion Effects, Material-specific reverb parameters
EAX 3.0: 'Smoothing' between 3D audio environments, Direct access to all reverb parameters, Environmental Panning, New reverb engine, 64 simultaneous voices, Beginning of the AdvancedHD Designation from new reverb engine
EAX 4.0: Real-time hardware effects, Multiple simultaneous environments, Flange, echo, distortion, and ring modulation effects
EAX 5.0: 128 simultaneous voices, EAX Voice (processing of microphone input signal), EAX PurePath (EAX Sound effects can originate from one speaker only), Environment FlexiFX (four available effects slots per channel), EAX MacroFX (realistic positional effects at close range), Environment Occlusion (sound from adjacent environments can pass through walls).
Creative ALchemy supports the following Sound Blaster X-Fi models.
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
•Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Pro
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
•Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
•Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook
•Sound Blaster X-Fi HD / Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 / 5.1 Pro
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
•Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series
•Sound Blaster Recon3D PCIe series
•Sound Blaster Z series
Creative ALchemy Audigy Edition supports the following Sound Blaster Audigy audio devices:
Supported Sound Blaster Audigy audio devices:
•Sound Blaster Audigy 4
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS notebook
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 SE
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum Ex
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2
•USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
•Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value
•Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum Ex
•Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
•Sound Blaster Audigy
•Sound Blaster Audigy LS