It also has 6 GS compatible drum kits. The programmable AWE32 Effects Engine allows reverb and chorus or QSound for individual voices. The card has 512 KB RAM onboard expandable to 28 MB using SIMM modules. It supports E-mu's SoundFont library and allows downloading of additional sounds via samples, giving virtually unlimited variations of sounds. The Advanced Signal Processor chip allows programming for QSound 180 degrees soundscape effect and speech synthesis.
Volume control is now solely software driven.
The MIDI interface is compatible with Sound Blaster and MPU-401 UART modes. The Wave Blaster daughterboard can also be attached. Given that QEMM 7.03 had the best result, I further tested this setup under GM, GS, and MT32 emulation mode. The SB AWE32 requires to loading of a TSR to run games that support MIDI output through the MPU-401 data port. Note that the requirement for an emulation TSR means that one needs a separate setup for each MIDI mode, although this is less troublesome now that MS-DOS allows multiple configurations.