Live! cards with the EMU10K1 have a special PCI game port, which, though it doesn't provide "Enhanced Game Port" features like the 4DWave or Aureal Vortex/Vortex 2 chips, is quite a bit faster than traditional game ports running on the ISA bus. This emulated legacy Ad Lib/OPL 3 and Sound Blaster 16 cards in addition to General MIDI. The first cards supported up to 4 speakers plus a subwoofer, also referred to as 4.1 or quadraphonic sound, but in 2000 the Live! 5.1 was released.ĭOS support on Live! cards was provided through the use of Ensoniq-developed AudioPCI and its TSR utility, who Creative had acquired that same year. With the EMU10K1, the Live! supported DirectSound and EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions) 1.0 and 2.0 3D positional audio in addition to having an onboard 64-voice wavetable synthesizer that used main memory for its sample storage instead of a dedicated ROM.Īll Sound Blaster Live! cards were on the PCI bus, which allowed much faster data transfer rates between the card and system RAM to retrieve audio samples. The first Live! card launched in August 1998, and was the first to sport the E-Mu EMU10K1 audio processor. The Live! range was the successor to the ViBRA range of Creative's sound cards.
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