This was bundled with " multimedia upgrade kits ", comprising a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro.

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

Previously, John Carmack had experimented with a version of Quake specifically written for the Rendition Vérité chip used in the Creative Labs PCI 3D Blaster card.

* the filename extension for Creative Voice files, a proprietary audio file format developed by Creative Labs for use by their Soundblaster sound cards

Digital audio ( PCM ) was not supported, a key feature supported by later competition ( such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster.

Creative Labs was already Yamaha's biggest customer for music-based technology, generating a conflict of interest that delayed the Gold's development process.

Not long after its introduction, Creative Labs introduced the competing Sound Blaster card.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

Due to Aureal's acquisition ( see below ) the A3D technology is now part of the intellectual property of Creative Labs and some features may be licensed under different product names such as EAX.

EAX 1. 0, the competing technology at the time promoted by Creative Labs, simulated the environment with an adjustable reverb — it didn't calculate any actual reflections off the 3D surfaces.

Creative Labs sued Aureal for patent infringement in March 1998, and Aureal countersued for patent infringement and deceptive trade practices.

Creative then acquired Aureal's assets in September 2000 through the bankruptcy court with the specific provision that Creative Labs would be released from all claims of past infringement by Creative Labs upon Aureal's A3D technology.

Creative Labs has not chosen to support the A3D API.

Other examples include some C-Media PCI sound cards and Creative Labs ' X-Fi sound cards whose drivers have enabled support for DDL.

Creative Labs alleged Kawakami violated their intellectual property and demanded he cease distributing his modified drivers.

* Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro 2 MCV, SKU: CT5330

available from Creative Labs, Hi-Val, and Diamond Multimedia in April and May of 1997.

Starting around 1993, with the introduction of Creative Labs ' Sound Blaster AWE32 and Gravis ' Ultrasound cards, the term " wavetable " started to be applied as a marketing term to any sound card that used PCM samples as the basis of sound creation.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

Additionally Creative Sound, owned by Bob Cotterell, released and distributed Street Level, as well as Stonehill's Born Twice.

Although the IBM and compatibles initially lacked the hardware sound processing capabilities of the Amiga, with the advent of the Sound Blaster line from Creative, PC audio slowly began to approach CD Quality ( 44. 1 kHz / 16-bit / Stereo ) with the release of the SoundBlaster 16.

The creator of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Technology, also known by the name of its United States subsidiary, Creative Labs.

Surprisingly, the board also contained a large 40-pin PGA ( Creative Technology Programmable Logic ) integrated circuit, bearing a CT 1302A CTPL 8708 serigraphed inscription and looking exactly like the DSP of the later Sound Blaster.

Creative used the " DSP " acronym to designate the digital audio part of the Sound Blaster.

Owners of previous revision Sound Blaster boards could upgrade their board by purchasing the V2. 00 DSP chip from Creative Labs, and swapping the older DSP with the newer replacement.

The Sound Blaster Pro was the first Creative sound card to have a built-in CD-ROM interface.

Shortly after the release of the Sound Blaster Pro 2 version, Creative discontinued the original Sound Blaster Pro.

Creative also sold Multimedia Upgrade Kits containing the Sound Blaster Pro.

Creative Labs also used this chip for the Sound Blaster 32, Phone Blaster 28. 8 ( VIBRA + modem ) and many other value-edition cards.

A derivative of the AWE32 design, the Sound Blaster 32 ( SB32 ) was a value-oriented offering from Creative.

Such boards include Sound Blaster PCI64 ( April 1998 ), PCI128 ( July 1998 ), Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI, Vibra PCI and Sound Blaster 16 PCI.

* Sound Blaster, a family of sound cards by Creative Technology

Another patch allowed EAX capability to be enabled for Creative Sound Blaster sound cards.

A year later, in 1988, Creative marketed the C / MS via Radio Shack under the name Game Blaster.

Creative did not change any of the labeling or program names on the disks that came with the Game Blaster, but also included a later revision of the game Silpheed that added C / MS support.

Creative Technology | Creative 3D Blaster Banshee AGP

The Matterhorn is a subwoofer model completed in March 2007 by Danley Sound Labs in Gainesville, Georgia after a U. S. military request for a loudspeaker that could project infrasonic waves over a distance.

* IBM 7090 Music From Mathematics recorded in 1960 by Bell Labs, using the " Digital to Sound Transducer " to realize several traditional and original compositions ; this album contains the original Daisy ( Bicycle Built for Two ).

* Synthetic Sound Labs

The IBM DA15 PC game connector has been modified to add a ( usually MPU-401 compatible ) MIDI interface, and this is often implemented in the game connectors on third-party sound cards, for example the Sound Blaster line from Creative Labs.

By the mid 1980s the Columbia and Princeton facilities had ceased their formal affiliation, with the Princeton music department strengthening its affiliation with Bell Labs and founding a computer music studio under Godfrey Winham and Paul Lansky ( see Princeton Sound Lab ).

Surfer Girl was released in 1989 by Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs UDCD 521 on a single CD paired with the Surfin USA album.

In contrast to the competing Creative Labs Sound Blaster, which generated music through FM synthesis, the GF1 chip produced music through playback of digitized audio samples.

In July 2010, the audiophille label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs released this album on the Super Audio Compact Disc SACD format.

In 1930, A. J. Thuras of Bell Labs patented ( US Patent No. 1869178 ) his " Sound Translating Device " ( essentially a vented box ) which was evidence of the interest in many types of enclosure design at the time.

( This would last until the introduction of Creative Labs ' Sound Blaster in 1989.

Dorset is the location of Posford's studio, the Hallucinogen Sound Labs.

The Sound 80 building was sold around 1990, but the original recording studio still exists and is now home to Orfield Labs who operate an Eckel Industries designed anechoic chamber.

Dr. Sbaitso was distributed with various sound cards published by Creative Labs ( the name was an acronym for Sound Blaster Acting Intelligent Text to Speech Operator ) in the early 1990s.