Creative Sound Blaster Live! - Features, Specifications, and Advanced Settings; General Specifications and Features

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General Specifications
This section lists the specifications of your
audio cards.
Features
PCI Bus Mastering
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PCI Specification Version 2.1 compliant
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Bus mastering reduces latency and speeds
up system performance
EMU10K1
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Advanced hardware accelerated digital
effects processing
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32-bit digital processing while
maintaining a 192 dB dynamic range
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Patented 8-point interpolation that
achieves the highest quality of audio
reproduction
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64-voice hardware wavetable synthesizer
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Professional-quality digital mixing and
equalization
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Up to 32 MB of sound RAM mapped to
host memory
Stereo Digitized Voice Channel
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True 16-bit Full Duplex operation
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16-bit and 8-bit digitizing in stereo and
mono modes
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Playback of 64 audio channels, each at an
arbitrary sample rate
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ADC recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025,
16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz
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Dithering for 8-bit and 16-bit recording
AC ’97 Codec Mixer
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Mixes EMU10K1 audio sources and
analog sources such as CD Audio, Line In,
Microphone, Auxiliary, TAD and PC
Speaker
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Selectable input source or mixing of
various audio sources for recording
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16-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of
analog inputs at 48 kHz sample rate
Volume Control
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Software record and playback control of
Master, Digitized Voice, and inputs from
MIDI device, CD Audio, Line,
Microphone, Auxiliary, TAD, PC
Speaker, I
2
S (PC-DVD), SPDIF,
Wave/DirectSound device, and CD
Digital (CD SPDIF)
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Separate bass and treble control
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Muting and balance control for individual
playback sources
E-mu Environmental Modeling
TM
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Realistic 3D experience that increases
depth and breadth in perceived audio
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Highly accurate positioning of audio
objects in 3D space
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Exceptional reproduction of various
ambient and environmental effects
DynaRAM
TM
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Dynamic allocation of host memory for
storing and processing sound samples
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Need not rely on on-board audio card
memory