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Technical
Specifications
Wave-Table
Synthesis
- E-mu
Systems, Inc. EMU10K1™ music synthesis engine
- 64-voice
hardware polyphony with E-mu's patented 8-point interpolation technology
- Uses
SoundFont technology for user-definable wave-table sample sets which
includes 2MB, 4MB and 8MB sets
- Load
up to 32MB of samples into host memory for professional music reproduction
- Scalable
PCI wave-table synthesis architecture
- Up
to 1024-voice polyphony with multi-timbre capability
- 48
MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum kits
Effects
Engine
- E-mu
Systems, Inc. EMU10K1 patented effects processor
- Support
for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch shifter,
or distortion across any audio source
- Capable
of processing, mixing and positioning audio streams using up to 131
available hardware channels
- Full
digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain, eliminating
noise from the signal
- Customizable
effects architecture allows new audio effects to be downloaded from
the Web
- Full
bass, treble and effects controls available for all audio sources
EAX™
and 3D Audio Technology
- User-selectable
settings are optimized for headphones, two, four or six speakers and
external A/V amplifiers
- Dolby®
Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in analog or digital
modes
- Upgradable
3D audio architecture allows for improvements over time
- Accelerates
Microsoft® DirectSound® and DirectSound 3D
- Hardware
acceleration of EAX in games
- Creative
Multi Speaker Surround™; technology places any mono or stereo source
in a 360° audio space
- EAX
effects - user-selectable DSP modes that simulate acoustic environments
Hollywood-Quality,
32-Bit Digital Audio Engine
- Processes
bit resolutions from 4-bit to 16-bit
- Processes
sample rates from 5kHz to 48kHz
- All
sound sources are bundled with 32-bit precision for highest quality
output
- Analog
and digital I/O modes supported
- Hardware
full duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback at 8 standard
sample rates
- Utilizes
AC '97 Audio Codec
- MIDI
Interface/Joystick Port
- Supports
Sound Blaster® MIDI and MPU-401 modes
- IBM
compatible 15-pin joystick port with analog support
- Support
for digital and DirectInput™ game devices
On-Board
Connectors
- Analog/Digital
Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer/6-channel S/PDIF Output)
- Line
in
- Microphone
in
- Line
level out (front)/Headphone out
- Line
level out (rear)
- MIDI/Joystick
port
- Telephone
Answering Device in
- MPC-3
Analog CD Audio in
- Digital
CD Audio in
- Expansion
header for Live!Drive series or Optical Digital I/O card (available
separately)
Works
with the Following Standards
- Windows®
95, 98, NT4.0, 2000 and Millenium Edition
- General
MIDI
- MPC-3
- Plug
and Play
- Sound
Blaster PCI
- EAX
- Microsoft
DirectSound, DirectSound3D and derivatives
- PCI
2.1 compliant
- AC
'97 compliant
- Dolby
Digital
System
Requirements
- Genuine
Intel® Pentium® class 166MHz or faster processor
- Intel
or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
- 32MB
system RAM (64MB recommended)
- Windows®
95, Windows® 98 or Windows® NT 4.0*, Windows® 2000* or Windows® Millennium
Edition
- Open
half-length PCI 2.1 compliant slot
- Headphones
or amplified speakers (available separately)
- CD-ROM
drive required for software installation
*Usage of this product in Windows® NT 4.0 or Windows® 2000 requires a
minimum of 200MHz processor and 64MB system RAM. Functionality may differ
from specifications due to limitations in these Operating Systems.
Viewing DVD movies requires a softDVD player such as Intervideo's WinDVD
2000 or CyberLink's PowerDVD 2.55 which in general, runs optimally on
Pentium 300 MHz screen resolution of at least 800 x 600 dpi.
Creative PlayCenter™ 2 requires one of the following OS's: Windows 95
OSR2, 98, NT4.0 Service Pack 6 (with IE 4.0), 2000 and Millenium Edition.
The
following software is Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 compliant:
- Drivers
- Audio
HQ
- Creative
Launcher with Live! Task
- Creative
Mixer/Surround Mixer
- Creative
PlayCenter 2
- Creative
Recorder
- Creative
Keytar
- Creative
Rhythmania
- Creative
WaveStudio
- SoundFont
Sample Banks
- MP3
Sample Clips
- Prody
Parrot
- Cakewalk
Express Gold 8.0
- SoundForge
XP 4.5
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