Diesel Power SDK

The Diesel Power SDK version 1.2.17 is now available for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista! Diesel Power in it's latest incarnation has the following key features:

• Create and play as many real time 3D sound sources as you like, only limited by CPU resources.
• Reduces the audio programming risks considerably, by taking away worries about specific soundcard and driver feature issues. (The only driver requirement is standard DirectSound acceleration for best performance, though it is not required - also works on emulated DS.)
• Very small CPU footprint on Intel Pentium III or better, optimized with Intel MMX instructions.
• Multithreaded, supporting Dual and HyperThreaded CPU machines.
• Synchronized rendering allowing multiple sound sources to be played in sync.
• IASIG Level One features.
• Easy to use Object Oriented C++ API.
• Supports Direct3D, OpenGL and AERO coordinate system conventions.
• Same high 3D quality regardless of the sound card used.
• Advanced playback system supporting 3D sound on both headphone, stereo and surround speakers playback systems through cross-talk cancellation. Has multiple equalisation filters for a number of different headphones and loudspeakers. Support for controlling the equalisation freely by adjusting individual filter parameters. The loudspeaker listening angle for cross-talk cancellation can be freely adjusted.
• Two different rendering modes - one for slow CPUs (22.05 Khz) and one for fast CPUs (44.1 Khz).
• Easy-to-use configuration tool that gives a user the possibility to adjust various default settings for EQ-filters, pre-set filters, speaker angle and slow/fast CPU rendering mode.
• Fast reaction time in the overall parameter updating, which is completely soundcard driver independent.
• (NEW!) Multispeaker 3D sound cross-talk system, with support for common surround speaker arrangements and large/small sweet-spots.
• (NEW!) Support for multichannel 2D buffers, e.g. 4 and 5.1 channel buffers, can be used to play back standard 4 or 5.1 surround sound music tracks etc.
• Non-intrusive behaviour allowing the use of other sound systems/APIs alongside Diesel Power.

You can request a free evaluation license for the Diesel Power SDK and engine, to do this contact sales@am3d.com or sv@am3d.com. The temporary license gives you the possibility to evaluate in full the Diesel Power engine and the SDK without any technical limits. When you have agreed to the evaluation license, we will send you the full Diesel Power SDK and engine.

To get a license to use and deliver Diesel Power with your applications and games please contact: am3d@am3d.com or sv@am3d.com.

You can download the Diesel Power SDK manual here. This document describes all the functionality available and documents the interfaces that makes up the Diesel Power API. If you wish to evaluate the quality of the 3D sound that Diesel Power provides, you can download our demonstration tool, Diesel Studio here, or you can visit our samples section that contains demos made with our 3D sound technology.

Diesel Power v.1.2.x adheres to the IASIG Level One specifications and recommendations.