Sensaura
Sensaura’s roots
dates back to about 70 years ago when CRL (Central Research Laboratories) was founded as
the corporate research laboratories for EMI. Today Sensaura is mostly known for its 3D
sound and reverb engines. It's not the most famous 3D sound and reverb engine but
it’s the most widely used with over 30 million shipped products using it. Most of
these are never used for gaming but several of the top of the line cards use it including
Diamond’s now cancelled MX400, VideoLogic’s SonicFury, Turtle Beach’s Santa
Cruz, Hercules GameTheater XP and Terratec’s Six Pack 5.1+. Two more recent well
known licensees are nVidia for its nForce chip and Microsoft for its Xbox, both identical
when it comes to the audio chip. The Sensaura technology will also be used in several
upcoming games for Playstation 2.
If you have a Sensaura based card and wonder what version of the
engine you got and what it supports (e.g MacroFX, ZoomFX, EAX 1.0, EAX 2.0 and/or I3DL2)
or just want to test them you should download the Player3D
or the Sensaura info tool from Sensaura’s website. The former also works to test
the 3D sound and reverb engine of any other non Sensaura card you may have. You can find a
lot more info about Sensaura and products using it reading the articles and reviews below
Gamer's
Guide to 3D Sound and Reverb Engines - A brief overview of Sensaura as well as several
other 3D sound and reverb engines
Gamer's Guide to the Sensaura
Technology - An indepth article about the Sensaura technology.
The Sensaura Technology
- Our previous (February 1999) much shorter and now out of date article about the Sensaura
Technology
Sensaura Site Visit - A
report from Simon King when he visited the Sensaura HQ February 1999
Sensaura News - Here you find an
extensive list of press releases from Sensaura as well as products using it.
Sensaura Products - A list of
products using Sensaura
Reviews of Sensaura Products - A
list of the reviews we done of products using Sensaura
Sensaura Supported
Games (Out of date).
If you have any comments, questions or see any errors in
the articles contact Mikael@3dsoundsurge.com.
For information from Sensaura you can contact Mike
Clarke.
Related Information
Gamer's
Guide to DS3D
Gamer's
Guide to EAX
3D
Sound and Reverb APIs
3D Sound and Reverb Engines
Sensaura's
website
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