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Philips Seismic Edge

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WHAT IS QEM?

QEM (QSound Environmental Modeling) is an environmental audio

rendering engine providing reverberation and other special audio

effects. It is compatible with the EAX API (Application

Programming Interface) provided to software developers by Creative

Labs, Inc.

WHAT DOES QEM DO?

In real life, every room, or ''environment'' you enter has some sort of

reverberant quality, depending on different factors like its size, and

the material the surrounding objects (e.g. walls, mountains, etc.) are

made of.

QEM attempts to model this in a game world, by applying reverb

effects to DirectSound audio streams, by way of presets that can be

either set manually, or called automatically from within an ''EAX-

enabled'' game.

How QEM Works

From a game player's perspective, this means that they can get ambi-

ent reverb effects on all the Direct Sound games they play. With the

Philips Seismic Edge, there are 2 ways they could get this:

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