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Sound System Design
The sound system gives the Jam-O-Drum life. The group dealt with many issues when choosing sound hardware. Here is a description of some of them:
Number of speakers
The latest design called for an external 6.1 surround sound speaker system and a subwoofer under the table. This 6.1 surround system will allow experiences to give individual players their own sound directly while having a general sound track playing at the same time. This will also take advantage of 3D surround sound.
Single speaker for each user
Previous Jam-O-Drum device had integrated speakers into the tabletop design and it was agreed that the new table should try and use surround sound and individual channel separation. There would be four speakers mounted above to the tabletop and two speakers above the center of the table as well as the subwoofer inside the drum. This would allow the group to create customized mixes for each user in addition to playing sound through house speakers.
Sound mixing
In order to allow for customized mixes between the four table and two room speakers and the subwoofer, the group determined that a mixer was needed. The sound would be driven by the four outputs on the PC's SoundBlaster Platinum card
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