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Microsoft to License Creative Technology’s EAX

Microsoft today announced a licensing agreement with Creative Technology for a number of recording-studio-quality audio effects found in Creative's Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX), an application programming interface (API) used to add environmental sound effects to 3-D games.

Microsoft to License Creative Technology’s EAX gets a June 1999 update. Microsoft today announced a licensing agreement with Creative Technology for a number of recording-studio-quality audio effects found in Creative’s Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX), an application programming interface (API) used to add environmental sound effects to 3-D games.

The licensed effects include flange, chorus, EQ and environmental reverberation. Microsoft plans to incorporate these EAX effects into its next version of the Microsoft DirectX API, the multimedia technology behind the Windows operating system.