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Specifications: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide

Features • Connectivity

Features

PCI Bus Mastering

• PCI Specification Version 2.1 compliant
• Bus mastering reduces latency and speeds up system performance

EMU10K1

• Advanced hardware accelerated digital effects processing
• 32-bit digital processing while maintaining a 192 dB dynamic range
• Patented 8-point interpolation that achieves the highest quality of audio reproduction
• 64-voice hardware wavetable synthesizer
• Professional-quality digital mixing and equalization
• Up to 32 MB of sound RAM mapped to host memory

Stereo Digitized Voice Channel

• True 16-bit Full Duplex operation
• 16-bit and 8-bit digitizing in stereo and mono modes
• Playback of 64 audio channels, each at an arbitrary sample rate
• ADC recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz
• Dithering for 8-bit and 16-bit recording

AC ’97 Codec Mixer

• Mixes EMU10K1 audio sources and analog sources such as CD Audio, Line In, Microphone, Auxiliary, TAD and PC Speaker
• Selectable input source or mixing of various audio sources for recording
• 16-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48 kHz sample rate

Volume Control

• Software record and playback control of Master, Digitized Voice, and inputs from MIDI device, CD Audio, Line, Microphone, Auxiliary, TAD, PC Speaker, SPDIF, Wave/DirectSound device, and CD Digital (CD SPDIF)
• Separate bass and treble control
• Front and Rear Balance control
• Muting and balance control for individual playback sources

E-mu Environmental Modeling^TM

• Realistic 3D experience that increases depth and breadth in perceived audio
• Highly accurate positioning of audio objects in 3D space
• Exceptional reproduction of various ambient and environmental effects

DynaRAM^TM

• Dynamically allocating host memory for storing and processing sound samples
• Need not rely on onboard audio card memory

Creative Multi Speaker Surround^TM (CMSS^TM)

• Multi-speaker technology
• Professional-quality panning and mixing algorithm
• Independent multiple sounds can be moved and placed around a listener

Connectivity

Audio Inputs

• One line-level analog Line input via stereo jack on rear bracket
• One mono Microphone analog input via stereo jack on rear bracket
• CD_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
• AUX_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
• TAD line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
• CD_SPDIF digital input via 2-pin Molex connector on card, accepting sampling rates of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz.

Audio Outputs

• Two line-level analog outputs via stereo jacks on rear bracket, Front and Rear Line-Outs
• Stereo headphone (32-ohm load) support on Front Line-Out

Interfaces

• MB_PRO 2x5 pin header
• PC_SPK 1x2 pin header
• AUD_EXT 2x20 pin header
• DIGITAL OUT jack
• MIDI/Joystick connector, external, DB15S

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