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crypt32.dll
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ole32.dll
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winmm.dll
midiOutGetDevCapsW, waveOutGetNumDevs, waveOutGetDevCapsW, mmioGetInfo, mmioSeek, mmioDescend, mmioSetInfo, mmioAscend, mmioAdvance, mmioClose, mmioCreateChunk, mmioOpenW, mmioWrite, waveOutMessage, midiOutMessage, midiOutGetNumDevs
winspool.drv
ClosePrinter, DocumentPropertiesW, OpenPrinterW

CTAudEp.dll

Audio Endpoint Selection by Creative Technology Ltd

Remove CTAudEp.dll
Version:   1.1.6.0
MD5:   48fc67077da95eea748fd98309753dcf
SHA1:   4ff087a0d4cc68f9197b65ffa7a5c7eaf02e93b3
SHA256:   ca9899d5a245a50592e011afecbc5240caffd4a2a29c2846c796216e8e44e662

What is CTAudEp.dll?

Audio Endpoint Selection is part of the driver providing Windows support for Creative Sound Blaster Audio. It installs Creative Audio Console to control the user's audio device's settings.

Overview

ctaudep.dll is loaded as dynamic link library that runs in the context of a process. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Creative WaveStudio 7 published by Creative Technology Ltd, Creative WaveStudio 7 from Creative Technology Ltd and Creative WaveStudio 7 by Creative Technology Ltd.

DetailsDetails

File name:ctaudep.dll
Publisher:Creative Technology Ltd
Product name:Audio Endpoint Selection
Typical file path:C:\Program Files\creative\sound blaster x-fi surround 5.1\volume panel\ctaudep.dll
File version:1.1.6.0
Product version:1.0.0.0
Size:312 KB (319,488 bytes)
Build date:11/9/2006 5:29 AM
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:Windows GUI
File packed:No
.NET CLR:No
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ResourcesPrograms

The following programs will install this file
Creative Technology Ltd
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Wave Studio is a Windows application that allows you to perform the following sound editing functions easily play, edit, and record 8-bit (tape quality) and 16-bit (CD quality) wave files, enhance your wave files or create unique sounds with various special effects and editing operations such as rap, reverse, echo, mute, pan, cut, copy, and paste, open and edit several wave files at the same time, import and export raw (.RAW) data files...
Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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SoundFont Bank Manager is an application that gives you easy access and precise control over your SoundFont banks. With SoundFont Bank Manager you can load, replace or remove SoundFont banks onto your computer's memory, allocate or adjust the cache memory for SoundFont banks and audition all your SoundFont banks and presets with the virtual keyboard.
Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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Sound Blaster Audigy is a product line of sound cards from Creative Technology. It supports a revised DMA engine allowed end-to-end high-resolution (24-bit) audio playback: 96 kHz 6.1 channel recording, and 192 kHz stereo. Audigy 2's 3D audio capabilities received a boost when compared to its predecessors. Creative created the EAX 4.0 ADVANCED HD standard to coincide with Audigy 2's release. The chip again can process up to 64 DirectSou...
Creative Technology Ltd
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Sound Blaster X-Fi is a lineup of sound cards in Creative's Sound Blaster series. The audio processor on X-Fi was the most powerful at its time of release, offering an extremely robust sample rate conversion (SRC) engine in addition to enhanced internal sound channel routing options and greater 3D audio enhancement capabilities. A significant portion of the audio processing unit was devoted to this resampling engine. The SRC engine was ...
Creative Technology Ltd
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EAX: (Environmental Audio Extensions) is an Application Programming Interface (API) developed by Creative Labs to create environmental audio in games and other audio applications.
Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) is part of the EAX technology supported by the Sound Blaster audio cards. It can also be found as a CMSS button on some multi-channel speaker systems and decoders. CMSS allow stereo upmix from various sources such as MP3, WMA, or Wav, to 4.1/5.1/6.1/7.1 channels, depending on your speaker setup and sound card model.
Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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The Sound Blaster X-Fi MB solution provides premium audio quality, effects and features for PC systems equipped with only basic onboard audio. For gamers, the EAX® ADVANCED HD 4.0, with its state-of-the-art Multi-Environment rendering and reverb modelling, delivers a much more realistic and immersive 3D gaming experience than your motherboard audio ever will. For music lovers, the X-Fi Crystalizer can restore the details and vibrance, (...
Creative Technology Ltd
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Creative Technology Ltd
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The multi-core Sound Core3D audio processor is designed to offload SBX Pro Studio™ and CrystalVoice™ effects processing from your primary CPU, improving your overall PC performance, resulting in drastically superior audio and voice quality. The CrystalVoice suite of technologies ensures you'll experience crystal clear communications while using VOIP services, chatting or gaming, as well as providing a set of enhancements to ensure high...
Creative Technology Ltd.
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The Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED MB solution provides premium audio quality, effects and features for PC systems equipped with only basic onboard audio. Through a comprehensive suite of music listening applications, users can enjoy better music with effects such as EAX reverbs, CMSS-3D surround sound, 10 band EQ, Bass boost, Smart Crossfade, Time Scaling and Audio Cleanup. Creative have worked closely with various HD Audio codec vendo...

Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

OS versiondistribution
Windows 7 Ultimate 28.57%
Windows 7 Home Premium 21.43%
Microsoft Windows XP 21.43%
Windows 8.1 Pro 7.14%
Windows Vista Home Premium 7.14%
Windows 8 Pro 7.14%
Windows Vista Business 7.14%

Distribution by countryDistribution by country

United States installs about 35.71% of Audio Endpoint Selection.

OEM distributionDistribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturerdistribution
Dell 33.33%
Toshiba 33.33%
Samsung 16.67%
Alienware 16.67%
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