Creative's Sound Blaster Live! Value Enhances Audio Experience on Dell Dimension Desktops

Strategic Insights -

Dell, a leading direct vendor of personal computer systems, has partnered with Creative Technology Ltd. to offer Creative's highly acclaimed Sound Blaster(R) Live! Value audio processor as an option on Dell's Dimension desktop systems. Sound Blaster Live! Value enhances all existing audio content for a completely new way to experience audio in music, entertainment, and games. This audio processor offers customers high-quality, digital audio processing and connectivity for a superior audio experience.

Key Takeaways:

  • Sound Blaster Live! Value is an option on Dell's Dimension desktop systems, offering customers high-quality digital audio processing and connectivity.
  • This audio processor enhances all existing audio content, providing a completely new way to experience audio in music, entertainment, and games.
  • Sound Blaster Live! Value features Hollywood-quality audio re-creation, powerful EMU10K1 audio processing, and Environmental Audio Technology.
  • The product has garnered prestigious awards, including "Sound Card of the Year" from CNET Gamecenter and "MVP" standing by PC Computing.
  • Environmental Audio goes beyond 3D positional audio, adding reverb, echo, and other effects consistent with the room acoustics, position of the user, source of the sound, and many other cues.
  • Top title developers are supporting Environmental Audio through Creative's widely adopted open API, Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX(TM)).
  • Features of Sound Blaster Live! Value include 512-voice music synthesis, multiple speaker output, and broad software support through the open-standard Environmental Audio API.

Statistics:

  • 32-bit, 192 dB, 48KHz signal processing using 8-point interpolation.
  • 512-voice music synthesis capability.
  • Up to 32 MB of memory for SoundFont(R) fidelity can be used.
  • Supports previously written MS-DOS(R) and Windows(R) titles.
  • Provides the broadest software support, including games and applications written for Microsoft DirectSound(R), DirectSound3D(R), and derivative technologies.

Sources:

  • Creative Technology Ltd. press release, "Creative Technology Ltd. Announces that Dell is Offering Sound Blaster(R) Live! Value Audio Processor on Dimension Desktop Systems"
  • CNET Gamecenter, "Sound Card of the Year" award
  • PC Computing, "MVP" standing
  • Game Developer Magazine, Frontline Awards
  • Creative's Web site: http://www.soundblaster.com/
  • Creative's OEM Business Division fact sheet