Sound Blaster Live! Model CT:48970 Value is the top audio solution for your games, movies, CDs and other digital entertainment. With its support for today’s leading audio standard— Environmental Audio—Sound Blaster Live! Value creates real- life, multidimensional sound and multitextured acoustical environments for the most realistic 3D audio experience. Its powerful EMU10K1 audio processor delivers audio at optimum CPU performance with the highest fidelity and absolute clarity. The Live! Ware upgrade program will keep your Sound Blaster Live! Value card up to date with continual upgrades supporting future technologies, functionality, and features. For digital entertainment enthusiasts and gamers looking for added value, nothing comes close to Sound Blaster Live! Value— the best choice for experiencing the best of digital entertainment and gaming.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION:
Wave-Table Synthesis
E-mu Systemsо, Inc. EMU10K1 music synthesis engine 64-voice hardware polyphony with E-mu's patented 8-point interpolation technology Uses SoundFont Bank technology for user-definable wave-table sample sets which include 2MB and 4MB sets Load up to 32MB of samples into host memory for professional music reproduction Scalable PCI wave-table synthesis architecture 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 or 2, 4, or 5.1 PC speaker and home stereo systems. Dolby Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in analog or digital modes Upgradeable 3D audio architecture allows for improvements over time Accelerates Microsoft DirectSound and DirectSound 3D Hardware acceleration of EAX in games Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) technology places any mono or stereo source in a 360║ audio space EAX preset effects: user-selectable DSP modes that stimulate 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 2 (available separately) Works with the Following Standards:
Windows 95, 98, 98SE, NT4.0, 2000, Millennium Edition and XP General MIDI MPC-3 Plug and Play Sound Blaster PCI EAX Microsoft DirectSound, DirectSound 3D, and derivatives PCI 2.1 compliant AC '97 compliant Dolby Digital 
