4/08 07:19 Compaq Uses Creative's Sound Blaster Live! Value for Prosignia
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Compaq Uses Creative's Sound Blaster Live! Value for Prosignia Desktop PCs
Award-Winning Sound Blaster Live! Value Delivers Enhanced User Experience
Through Creative's Environmental Audio Technology
MILPITAS, Calif., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Technology Ltd.
[CREAF-news], the world's leading provider of multimedia products for the
PC, today announced that Compaq Computer Corporation [CPQ-news] is offering
Creative's award-winning Sound Blaster(R) Live! Value audio processor on its
Prosignia Desktop PCs targeting small and medium business customers. Based on
the same highly-acclaimed architecture used in Sound Blaster Live!, Sound
Blaster Live! Value produces high-quality, digital audio for a dramatically
improved experience and a solid platform for business applications including
Internet and Intranet audio applications, presentations and
speech-recognition.
Sound Blaster Live! Value is designed to deliver digital audio processing
with interpolation that enhances any audio playback or digital recording.
With Sound Blaster Live! Value, all applications are instantly transformed,
producing a rich, high-quality audio experience. When paired with a
MicroWorks speaker system -- also offered by Compaq to Prosignia customers --
Sound Blaster Live! Value offers a powerful audio experience that is designed
to represent the broadest range of sonic clarity.
"At Compaq, bringing increased functionality and delivering a higher
quality experience is part of our on-going effort to build the best desktop
solutions, " said Bill Hensler, vice president and general manager, Small and
Medium Business Division, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Creative's Sound
Blaster Live! Value is helping us meet this commitment by allowing us to offer
the industry-acclaimed audio-solution-of-choice to our customers."
"It's very rewarding to see our leading audio technology being offered by
a key PC vendor like Compaq," said John Troutman, vice president of OEM Sales
and Marketing at Creative. "We share a common goal in driving the
accessibility of high quality solutions to a broad range of consumers. Sound
Blaster Live! Value realizes our goal of delivering a high-quality experience
and a high-value solution."
Features of Sound Blaster Live! Value
-- Hollywood Quality Audio Re-creation: Excellent audio fidelity
surpassing the quality of most home theater systems.
-- Powerful EMU10K1 Audio Processing Engine: Superb signal processing at
32-bit, 48KHz using a patented 8-point interpolation. This smoothes
the sound waveform, instantly improving any audio source including
existing content, MP3 and other Internet audio formats, Intranet audio,
CD audio and WAV files.
--.Environmental Audio Technology: Enhances all existing content and audio
sources in real-time including CD audio, WAV, MIDI, VCD, DVD, Internet
audio, line-input and microphone. Excellent for creating compelling
presentations.
--.Multiple Speaker Output: Built-in support for two or four analog
speakers.
--.256-Voice Music Synthesis: Available standard with 256-voice capability
and an option to upgrade via Creative's Live!Ware program to
512-voices. Professional quality sample banks are included in 2MB, 4MB
and 8MB configurations for music reproduction. Up to 32MB of memory
for amazing SoundFont(R) fidelity can be used to provide fantastic
quality music synthesis with upgrade options to add more SoundFont
banks.
--.Sound Blaster PCI Standard: Near-perfect Sound Blaster legacy support
in a single PCI card -- no need to keep a separate ISA card. Not
available on any competitive audio products, the patented Sound Blaster
PCI Standard includes support for previously written MS-DOS(R) and
Windows(R) titles.
--.Broadest Software Support: The open-standard Environmental Audio API
assures the broadest software support including games and applications
written for Microsoft DirectSound(R), DirectSound3D(R) and derivative
technologies.
--.Dedicated Sound Blaster Live! Website: A continuously updated Website
providing the latest product news, exciting new environments, feature
enhancements, software drivers, SoundFont samples, FAQ, newsgroups and
much more can be found at: sblive.com.
Environmental Audio -- The Defacto Audio Platform
Creative's Environmental Audio goes beyond 3D audio, adding reverb, echo,
and other effects consistent with the room acoustics, position of the user,
source of the sound, and many other cues. Environmental Audio enhances any
audio content with intense acoustical effects that provide a sense of ambiance
with preset settings for a variety of room types. Environmental Audio is
excellent for business applications. It creates powerful, compelling
presentations by enhancing audio/visual content. Top game developers are
supporting Environmental Audio through Creative's widely-adopted open API --
Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX(TM)). For a complete list of titles that
support Environmental Audio please check Creative's Website at:
soundblaster.com.
About Creative
Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a wide array
of advanced multimedia solutions for the PC, entertainment, education, music
and productivity tools markets. Creative's products are marketed through both
the OEM and retail channels under a variety of trademarks, including the
"Blaster" family name. Sound Blaster(R) has become the multimedia industry's
de facto audio standard. Sound Blaster is an audio platform consisting of a
sound card or chipset, software drivers and bundled software applications that
enable PCs to produce high quality audio. Creative's corporate headquarters
and primary manufacturing are based in Singapore, with sales, distribution and
research and development being carried out through an extensive, global
network of subsidiaries located in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks of Creative Technology
Ltd. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective
owners and are hereby recognized as such.
SOURCE Creative Technology Ltd.
-0- 04/08/99
/CONTACT: Theresa Pulido of Creative Labs, Inc., 408-546-6416,
tpulido@soundblaster.com; or Gary Brotman of Golin Harris International,
213-623-4200, gbrotman@golinharris.com/
/Web site: compaq.com
/Web site: soundblaster.com
/Web site: sblive.com
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