Editing Environmental Audio Extensions (section)

{{Short description|Digital signal processing software for audio}}
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| logo                   = Environmental Audio Extensions (logo).jpg
| logo caption           = Creative EAX logo
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| author                 = [[Creative Technology]]
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| released               = 1999
| discontinued           = yes
| latest release version = 5.0
| latest release date    = 2005
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| license                = Proprietary
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The '''Environmental Audio Extensions''' (or '''EAX''') are a number of [[digital signal processing]] presets for audio, present in [[Creative Technology]] [[Sound Blaster]] [[sound card]]s starting with the [[Sound Blaster Live]] and the [[Creative NOMAD]]/[[Creative ZEN]] product lines. Due to the release of Windows Vista in 2007, which deprecated the DirectSound3D API that EAX was based on, Creative discouraged EAX implementation in favour of its [[OpenAL]]-based EFX equivalent – though at that point relatively few games used the API.