What is the purpose of the F8 key?
Pressing the F8 key you switch between stereo and surround modes. This setting is INDEPENDENT from settings in Control Panel! More precisely: Klango-applications can’t determine how many speakers you use and by pressing F8 you can help them to correct the positions of sounds in the 3d space. The state of the F8 key is read by the currently running Klango-application BUT the application is not obliged to use this information(!). Though, if this is a case, the app can change positions of sounds. Why is it so important? Because with stereo speakers sometimes it’s hard to distinguish sounds which are behind and in front of the player. In such a situation, the application can move all the sounds into “front halfspace” and use a different alghorithm of positioning, which results in a much better reception of the program. “Pirate Memory Game” is an example of such an application – try pressing F8 key and listen to the differences. In “stereo mode” all sounds are in front of the listener and s
