High-quality Surround Sound in Movies, Music, and Games
The Sound Blaster® Live! brings cinema-quality sound to your movies, music, and games with digital 5.1 clarity. Driven by the powerful EMU10K1 Digital Signal Processor, you will experience the highest quality sound reproduction with real-time audio and effects. The Sound Blaster Live! includes Creative PlayCenter with a full 320kbps encoder and 9X MP3 acceleration, making it fast and easy to create, customize, and listen to quality MP3/WMA files. With the ability to connect to Dolby® Digital and multi-channel digital speaker systems or analog audio devices, you can experience true 5.1 surround sound with all PC audio entertainment. Creative Multi-Speaker Surround (CMSS) mode lets you experience 5.1 audio from a stereo signal, or enjoy movies in Dolby Digital 5.1 audio when connected to digital 6-channel speakers or analog Dolby Digital-ready home stereo receivers.
For riveting movies, music, and games with digital 5.1 audio quality - take advantage of the Sound Blaster Live!
Experience real-time digital audio and effects with head-turning 3D positional audio from the EMU10K1 Digital Signal Processor
Create CD quality MP3 or WMA files with a 320kbps encoder and up to 9X encoding acceleration
Surround yourself with theater-like Dolby® Digital 5.1 audio in movies
Easily connect to Cambridge SoundWorks® DTT3500, DTT2200, and other Dolby Digital-ready 5.1 home theater systems
Features and Benefits
Dolby Digital 5.1 and Analog Surround Sound
The Sound Blaster Live! provides a full 5.1 surround-sound experience in either digital or analog mode for all your audio entertainment needs. You'll get superior sound quality with Dolby Digital 5.1 technology in movies by connecting a Creative Inspire™ 5.1 Digital speaker solution to the digital-out connector on Sound Blaster Live! Or, connect the Sound Blaster Live! to analog devices such as the Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 speaker solution to experience 5.1 audio.
Quality Digital Signal Processor
The revolutionary EMU10K1 Digital Signal Processor gives you all the power you need to create crystal-clear audio files. Because processing and playback remain entirely digital, your files maintain the highest level of audio quality with settings optimized for headphones or 2, 4, or 5.1 PC speaker and home stereo systems. You'll enjoy a true 5.1 gaming experience with low latency and no additional settings required. The Sound Blaster Live! provides hardware acceleration for EAX®, Microsoft® DirectSound® 3D, and DirectSound gaming and produces up to 32 3D hardware-accelerated channels, or up to 64 hardware-accelerated channels. With support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, echo, flanger, pitch shifting, vocal morpher, ring modulator, auto-wah, or distortion, it provides an overwhelming audio experience.
EAX® Audio Technology
EAX technology delivers advanced audio functionality and performance, adding sophisticated audio processing capabilities and interactive, high-definition sound to digital entertainment. EAX technology is redefining the audio experience. EAX adds interactive, high-definition audio to Sound Blaster Live! cards. With EAX's 3D audio technology, 5.1 analog and digital sound, audio environment effects, and SoundFont® digital instrument libraries, you can experience premium-class audio in gaming, music and movies. Hear monsters creeping up behind you in your games. Record and enjoy your favorite MP3 songs with a concert hall, jazz club, or other environment effects. Enjoy cinematic 5.1 audio with your movies. You'll be amazed at the difference EAX makes to your sound. For more information on EAX, be sure to visit www.EAX.creative.com.
Creative PlayCenter
With PlayCenter 2, you can encode and decode MP3 and WMA files with a full 320kbps encoder and up to 9X acceleration, rip music from CD tracks, customize and organize playlists, and transfer them onto a |
