OpenAL Soft is a cross-platform software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio
API. It's built off of the open-sourced Windows version available originally
from the SVN repository at openal.org. OpenAL provides capabilities for
playing audio in a virtual 3d environment. Distance attenuation, doppler
shift, and directional sound emitters are among the features handled by the
API. More advanced effects, including air absorption, low-pass filters, and
reverb, are available through the EFX extension. It also facilitates streaming
audio, multi-channel buffers, and audio capture.
This package is needed to build programs written with OpenAL Soft for use with
FreeBASIC.