Wie Hersteller VIA Technologies heute offiziell bekannt gab, hat man ein Abkommen mit QSound unterzeichnet. Dieses Abkommen beinhaltet die lizenzieren diverser QSound Technologien für kommenden VIA Audio Produkte der Vinyl-Reihe. Dabei will VIA vor allem folgende Features des neuen Partners integrieren:
- Q3D: Complete DirectSound, DirectSound3D, A3D and I3DL2-compatible digital audio mix engine with advanced 3D positioning, including 2D to 3D remix for non 3D games, for headphones and 2 to 7.1 channel speaker systems.
- QEM: EAX and EAX2.0-compatible acoustic environment simulation, for headphones and 2 to 7.1 channel speaker systems.
- QXpander: Mono to 3D and stereo to 3D stereo sound stage synthesis and enhancement for headphones and stereo speakers.
- QVerb: reverberation optimized for music and movies, for all configurations.
- QEqualizer: 8 band equalizer
