Re: [Audyssey] Best Audio Engine for vb.net

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Downey
...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Best Audio Engine for vb.net Hi Ken, Technically OpenAL and XAudio2 are called audio APIs not audio engines. In the future you might want to refer to them as APIs

Re: [Audyssey] Best Audio Engine for vb.net

2013-10-15 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ken, OpenAL supports 3d audio, and has always done so from the very first release. However, if you want to use it with Visual Basic .NET you need a managed wrapper for OpenAL because the standard C++ library doesn't have any .NET bindings. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/openaldotnet/ to

Re: [Audyssey] Best Audio Engine for vb.net

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ken, Technically OpenAL and XAudio2 are called audio APIs not audio engines. In the future you might want to refer to them as APIs or libraries when speaking to other developers. :D Anyway, in terms of audio libraries I would strongly recommend OpenAL over XAudio2. The reason is that XAudio2