This means that when communicating over the Internet with products like Creative's WebPhone or VocalTec's Internet Phone, users can both speak and listen at the same time. The AWE64 supports 3D-positional sound. A click of a button onscreen gives music and sound effects a much more spacious sound. Most 3D sound technologies tend to distort the sound, however, we found the AWE64's sound to be rich and did not produce artificial sound artifacts in the sound presentation. For MIDI composition the AWE64 is general MIDI compliant and comes with Vienna SoundFont Studio, a professional editor that allows users to create or modify SoundFonts.
Users can use Vienna to change a sample's pitch, add reverb, chorus, delay and vibrato.
With the splitter cable users can simultaneously be plugged into a MIDI keyboard and a joystick, without having to unplug one to use the other. Users of Microsoft's SideWinder 3D Pro joystick will be happy to know that we experienced no problems while using the splitter. Documentation that comes with the SideWinder game pad and joystick cautions that using a splitter with the digital joysticks could fail to work, however the AWE64 seems to function without incident. Gold also ships with a hands free microphone, Eradicator, Magic Carpet 2, and a full compliment of AWE64 specific software.