Every new Sound Blaster® audio card raises the bar in PC audio quality and performance, incorporating leading-edge technology developed and refined through extensive research and development across our world-wide research centers. Sound Blaster audio technology brings unprecedented levels of audiophile quality and gaming realism to the PC, so you will enjoy the best ever digital entertainment experience. Visit our Technology section to learn more about the ground-breaking technology introduced across our latest products.
Milestones
Creative Labs has a long heritage of providing top quality and leading edge audio solutions to the mass PC population with the Sound Blaster range of sound cards and devices.
EAX® ADVANCED HD?
The next generation of EAX® - a technological advancement that brings a host of new high definition audio features for gaming and music
CREATIVE MEDIASOURCE?
Creative MediaSource gives you powerful, yet intuitive control over your digital music collection, including playback of DVD-Audio discs; the latest CD- based audio format used by the music industry to deliver advanced resolution audio and multi-channel recordings.
FIREWIRE®
Firewire (IEEE® 1394) brings scintillating high-speed connectivity to your digital entertainment experience, connecting your PC to a host of digital equipment like digital camcorders, digital cameras, VCRs, audio players, external hard drives, CD-RW drives, and other high-speed devices including another PC with an IEEE® 1394 port on-board.
DVD-AUDIO?
DVD-Audio is the next generation high quality audio format, bringing a quantum improvement in audio performance in both stereo and multi-channel surround with audio fidelity far exceeding that of conventional CD's and DVD-Video (DVD-V), ushering you into the Advanced Resolution? era of 24-bit music fidelity with 192kHz in stereo and 96kHz in 5.1.
SoundFont®
SoundFont technology is a sample format that was invented by E-MU® / ENSONIQ® for the purpose of creating a flexible wavetable synthesis solution for Creative Labs. E-MU / ENSONIQ brought their expertise, which has set the standard for professional sample formats, and created a solution that would be embraced for consumer and professional applications. With SoundFont technology, you are able to create a wide variety of expressive sounds that would require very little audio data. With the power of apply filters, volume envelopes, pan instructions, effect sends, and LFO's (low frequency oscillators) that can control the value of much of these effects, the possibilities are endless.
