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Diesel Studio™

This demo program - Diesel Studio™ by AM:3D - allows you to position 3D sound sources all around you. The purpose is to demonstrate the quality of our 3D Positional Audio technology that uses Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF). The HRTF filters makes it possible to perceive a sound source in any direction. You will be able to experience an enhanced 3D sensation using headset, 2 or 4 speaker system.

Diesel Studio™ uses our Interactive 3D Audio sound engine called Diesel Power™, allowing on-the-fly positioning of sounds anywhere in the three-dimensional space surrounding a listener. Diesel Power™ can adapt to either headsets, 2 or 4-speaker systems. The Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IASIG) has specified guidelines for 3D Audio Rendering and Evaluation, Diesel Power™ meets the IASIG Level One guidelines.

To obtain the Diesel Studio™ in order for you to use it for your own interactive applications and/or games go here.

When you run Diesel Studio™, make sure that no environmental presets or the like are active on your soundcard.

Update: Diesel Studio v. 1.7 (07/12-2007)

Fixed bug which caused Diesel Studio to crash on Windows Vista.
Fixed MFC toolbar drawing error when using XP visual style.
Enabled XP visual style.
Tracker configuration is now stored in a config file.
Added missing keybord accelerators for the four views in the view menu.
Changed keyboard accelerator for "Save as" - it is now 'a' instead of 's' which is used for "Save".
Added changes so that document file name appears in main window title.
The user is now only prompted to "Save?" when document has actually been modified.
.dss files can now be associated with DieselStudio.
Uses DieselPower v.1.2.17 3D audio engine.

Update 11.03.2004 DieselStudio v.1.6d:

Docking tool windows. This gives a better layout especially in low resolutions.
Resizable and Maximizable View Windows.
The tool windows and view windows can now be closed and opened in the view menu.
Position and state of tool windows and view windows can be saved.
Added scene info tool window, which displays information about the scene.
Perspective view now with perspective.
Updated toolbar.
Object names are now rendered in the view windows on top of the objects.
Added 3D model support. 3D models can now be assigned to the objects in the scene.
Optimized rendering of built-in 3D objects.
Sound cone parameters are now rendered in the view windows.
Totally covered views skip rendering to avoid waisting resources.
Added audio input streaming from disk when playing wave files above 5MB. This reduces the memory requirements and loading time for large scenes.
Fixed bug in config loader which gave random default values for filter parameters when not present in the cfg file.

Update 17.09.2003 DieselStudio v.1.5a:

Support for head tracker plug-ins.
Saving a deleted path now works correctly.

Update 21.01.2003 DieselStudio v.1.4d:

Display bugs for "large font" Windows desktop mode fixed.
DieselStudio now works in 800x600 display modes, with a selector dialog to select each tool window.
Now remembers the playback settings from last last time the program was running.

Update 19.12.2002 DieselStudio v.1.4a and DieselPower v.1.2.10:

4-speaker mode supported on DirectSound multi channel soundcards (DP v.1.2.10).
Now works on soundcards without a DirectSound driver - though with a higher latency.
Streaming from the playback menu has been temporarily disabled.

Update 12.09.2002 Diesel Studio™ v.1.3b and Diesel Power™ v.1.2.8:

The following is new compared to the previous version:

25% faster rendering (Diesel Power engine v.1.2.8).
Ability to stream audio output to RAW files (selected in the playback menu).

Update 21.05.2002 Diesel Studio™ and Diesel Power™ v.1.2.6:

A flaw causing sound to "flicker" or drop-out on some systems (particularly Win98) is now fixed.

Update 08.05.2002 Diesel Studio™ v.1.2 and Diesel Power™ v.1.2.4:

Diesel Studio™ v.1.2 : Brand new audio scenarios and support for the new playback system in DieselPower™.
Diesel Power™ v.1.2.4: New features and improvements like new headphones and loudspeakers EQ-filter presets and improved playback system. This version is newer than the one we demonstrated at Game Developers Conference 2002.