Creative SOUND BLASTER PRO User Reference Manual page 7

SOUNDBLASTER^
Introduction
Welcome o he world of Mul imedia — a dream made rue wi h he release of he
Sound Blas er Pro from he Crea ive group of people. A Crea ive, we have had
his dream since 1986, when we launched our alking compu er — he CUBIC-
CT. I was a mul imedia, mul i-lingual PC ha had music, voice-inpu , voice-ou pu ,
enhanced graphics and a huge ROM Disk all buil in o he compu er. A grea
echnological fea a ha ime. Bu he CUBIC-CT was way ahead of i s ime and
here was li le sof ware suppor for i s mul imedia fea ures.
When we launched he Sound Blas er Pro, we comple ely reversed he
si ua ion. Since Sound Blas er Pro is 100% backward compa ible wi h Sound
Blas er, i has he larges sof ware suppor of any sound card. This includes
quali y en er ainmen , educa ion, music, mul imedia and produc ivi y sof ware;
developed bo h in-house by Crea ive Labs and more han 5,000 hird-par y
developers all over he world.
Many new and exci ing mul imedia applica ions ha u ilize he Sound Blas er
Pro's fea ures are on heir way o flood he marke . Youwillwonderhowyou ever
managed o use your compu er wi hou he Sound Blas er Pro. You will find he
Sound Blas er Pro jus as impor an as your mouse and VGA graphics card.
Sound Blas er Pro is essen ially wo Sound Blas ers in one — you have almos
wo of every hing on he Sound Blas er Pro:
□ Dual DACs for s ereo or mono digi ized voice ou pu
□ S ereo/Mono ADC for sampling voice in s ereo or mono,
□ You can now sample from he microphone, Line-in or even from he CD-
Audio.
■ New FM music syn hesizer chips ha give you enhanced sound from i s
four opera ors and eigh available waveforms.
□ Maximum DAC and ADC sampling ra es have increased o 44.1 KHz
(22.05KHz in s ereo).
lus , all he audio signals are con rolled and mixed by a buil -in, versa ile digi al/
analog Mixer. You can mix he following audio sources:
■ Digi ized s ereo sound
■ FM s ereo music
■ Microphone
■ Line-in
■ CD-Audio