Technical features new to Windows Vista: Difference between revisions

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New digital signal processing functionalities such as ''Room Correction'', ''Bass Management'', ''Loudness Equalization'' and ''Speaker Fill'' have been introduced. These adapt and modify an audio signal to take best advantage of the speaker configuration a given system has. Windows Vista also includes the ability to calibrate speakers to a given room's acoustics automatically using a software wizard.<ref name="AudioImprovements">{{cite web |url=http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/06/audio-improvements-in-windows-vista.aspx |title=Audio Improvements in Windows Vista |last=Allchin |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Allchin |date=December 6, 2006 |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |work=Windows Vista Team Blog |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209135853/http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/06/audio-improvements-in-windows-vista.aspx |archive-date=December 9, 2006 |access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref>

Windows Vista also includes the ability tofor useaudio customdrivers host-basedto digitalinclude signalcustom processingDSP effects, aswhich partare ofpresented to the audio device manufacturer-supplied driver's value-added features. These effects are packageduser asthrough user-mode System Effect Audio Processing Objects (sAPOs).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/audio/sysfx.mspx |title=Custom Audio Effects in Windows Vista |access-date=2007-09-06 |archive-date=2007-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809132956/http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/audio/sysfx.mspx |url-status=live }}</ref> These sAPOs are also reusable by third-party software.

===Audio devices support===