Sound Blaster Live! Value Audio Card
Model CT4830
Revision 1.0
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Released by Product Marketing.
26 July 1999
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JOYSTICK/
MIDI
REAR_OUT
CD_SPDIF
CD_IN
AUX_IN
TAD
VOL_CTL
LINE_OUT
MIC_IN
LINE_IN
DIGITAL_OUT
AUD_EXT
PC_SPK
MODEL : CT4830
The heart of the Sound Blaster Live! Value is the EMU10K1 audio
processor chip, which is the most powerful integrated music, audio
and effects engine available. Every signal is processed at 32 bit,
48kHz using E-mu’s patented 8-point interpolation wave-table
synthesis with much more powerful effects processing. Therefore,
the result is a cleaner reproduction of the wave-table musical
instruments at all degrees of pitch shifting.
Sound Blaster Live! Value lets users experience depth and realism
beyond existing 3D audio. It even provides preset environments such
as Hall, Cave or Underwater that can be supplied to your existing
games and applications for incredibly true sound.
Sound Blaster Live! Value supports Surround Sound audio on the PC
with built-in support for two or four speakers. With S/PDIF output
now accommodated in this latest design, users would be able to
experience the compelling 3D audio on superior multiple speaker
systems such as Creative’s FPS2000 Digital or DeskTop Theater 5.1
DTT2500 Digital. Multi-speaker output also allows users to position
any audio devices such as CD Audio, WAV or MIDI anywhere
within the speaker environment. Sound Blaster Live! Value is now
capable of producing a whopping 1024-voices. This remarkable
1024-voices capability goes beyond the quality and performance
available in most professional music equipment. With additional
voices, Sound Blaster Live! Value delivers richer MIDI playback,
simultaneous playback of more instrument notes and multi-layering
of instruments to create better quality sound.
With Environmental Audio Extension
(EAX), Creative has made it
easier for any developer who wants to incorporate high-quality 3D
audio environments into their titles. In addition, Sound Blaster PCI
Standard has provided Sound Blaster emulation on the PCI bus by
using a combination of software and hardware wizardries.
Sound Blaster Live! Value is targeted at seamless integration into the
PC for the best novice and advanced users experience in gaming,
professional music recording and playback, and DVD/Video
playback.
Key Features:
♦
Environmental Audio™ experience generated by the powerful
effects engine.
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Creative Multi Speaker Surround™ (CMSS™) for upmixing
ordinary stereo sources.
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Support multiple speakers to PC through LINE_OUT and
REAR_OUT.
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Supports Digital Speakers such as Creative’s
FourPointSurround FPS2000 Digital.
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Patented 8-point interpolation reduces noise/distortion to
inaudible levels and produce music that is more complete and
closer to actual sound.
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A more faithful music reproduction of the actual musical
instrument.
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Capable of producing a virtually limitless variety of
professional-quality digital sound effects.
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Allows multiple audio sources playback on the same speaker
system.
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Realistic and immersive 3D positional audio experience and
DirectSound3D hardware acceleration.
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Low noise, low distortion, better SNR and frequency response
with a high performance AC97 codec.
♦
SoundFont
technology enable users to create their own unique
set of sound libraries and enhanced existing instrument sounds,
drums and audio effects.
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64 hardware, 1024 PCI Wavetable
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Digital audio Multiple wave file playback
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Stereo wave file recording
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64 Voice 2 Port hardware wavetable MIDI playback
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Digital input from CD-ROM / DVD-ROM drive.
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PCI Bus Mastering for CPU efficiency
