From: mike@win3 (Michael Paull)
Subject: Sound Blaster Pro 16
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:22:14 GMT



The following info comes off a Creative Tech product fact sheet.
**No queries** please; I don't have any other info besides what I'm about
to post, especially not about price$ or release dates.  Except for the fact
that they had the gall to announce at a LOCAL trade fair that this LOCAL
product would be released in the US first.


----------------Sound Blaster 16 ASP --------------------------------------

Sound Blaster 16 Advanced Signal Processing
===========================================
The extension into high-end PC sound with CD-quality music and sound effects.
Sound Blaster 16 ASP's main features are: true 16-bit sampling, advanced
signal processing technology, Wave Blaster Upgrade interface for PCM Wave-
table synthesis, an enhanced digital mixer and auto dynamic filtering.
Being 100% Sound Blaster compatible, Sound Blaster 16 ASP runs the hundreds
of existing Sound Blaster software under DOS, MPC, Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.0
platforms


Digitised Sound:
 Sound Blaster compatible
 8/16-bit stereo sampling from 5 kHz - 44.1 kHz (selectable)
 Recording source: microphone, stereo line-in, CD-audio, FM music
 8-bit DMA transfer on channel 0, 1 or 3 (selectable by jumper)
 16-bit DMA transfer on channel 5, 6 or 7 (selectable by jumper)
 8-bit ADPCM decompression in hardware (2:1, 3:1 and 4:1)
 16-bit real-time compression/decompression in hardware with the following
  standards:
  . Creative ADPCM (16:4)
  . CCITT A-law (16:8)
  . CCITT mu-law (16:8)
 Automatic dynamic filtering for digital audio recordings and playback

Synthesised Music:
 Enhanced 4-operator 20-voice stereo FM synthesiser (OPL3)
 Wave Blaster Upgrade option for true 16-bit PCM Wave-Table synthesis
  [The sales rep said this is supposed to be a daughterboard]

Stereo Digital/Analog Mixer:
 Output Mixing of all audio sources: digitised sounds, FM music, micro-
  phone, line-in, CD-audio, PC speaker
 Input Mixing sources: FM music, Microphone, Line-in, CD-audio
 Multiple source recording and L/R channels may be swapped or mixed
 Full software control of fade-in, fade-out, pan, volume, L/R steering
  and Microphone mixing
 Multiple level volume control on: digitised sound, FM music, microphone,
  CD-audio, line-in, PC speaker, Master Volume
 Tone control for bass and treble (L & R)

MIDI Interface:
 Sound Blaster MIDI mode and MPU-401 UART mode
 MIDI Time-stamp for multimedia extension
 Input buffer: 64-byte FIFO

CD-ROM Interface:
 High speed, high performance Sound Blaster proprietary CD-ROM interface
  that far exceeds MPC's requirements of less than 40% CPU utilisation and
  150KB transfer rate
 Actual measured performance, less than 30% CPU utilisation
 Internal connector for CD-audio mixing
 Supports internal and external CD-ROM drives from Creative Labs, Pana-
  sonic, Matsushita and others that comply with the SBCD or Panasonic
  interfaces

Joystick Port:
 Standard PC joystick port for 1 or 2 joysticks (Y-cable Optional)

Microphone Automatic Gain Control (AGC) Amplifier:
 Selectable AGC for optimum microphone sensitivity
 Input Impedance 600 ohms
  Sensitivity: 10-100mV

Output Power Amplifier:
 4W per channel (PMPO)
 Load Impedance 4 ohms (minimum)

Manual Volume Control:
 Volume control knob to set output level
 Easily accessible and durable

Jumper Selections:
 Interrupt selection		:	IRQ 2, 5, 7, 10
 8-bit DMA selection		:	channel 0, 1 or 3
 16-bit DMA selection		:	channel 5, 6 or 7
 I/O address selection		:	220H, 240H, 260H & 280H

Bundled Software:
 Creative WaveStudio		. SBTalker with Dr Sbaitso
 Creative Soundo'LE		. FM Intelligent Organ
 Creative Mosiac		. SBMIDI
 Talking Scheduler		. SBSIM
 HSC Interactive		. MMPLAY Presenter
 PC Animate Plus		. DOS and Windows 3.1 software drivers
 Monologue

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