La nueva gama de tarjetas de sonido que prepara Creative vendrán potenciadas por el nuevo chip Audigy. Este procesador de audio será 4 veces más potente que el EMU10K1 (montado en las SB Live). Entre sus características se encuentra un motor multiefecto de 32bits que utilizará el nuevo software EAX Advanced HD que mejorará la calidad sonora de los juegos y de la música que se escuche. Las características de este software pueden encontrarse en la página de presentación de Soundblaster.
Las tarjetas que implementen el Audigy contarán con soporte dual para Firewire 1394 (estándar para transmisión de datos desde videocámaras y unidades externas de almacenamiento).
Al igual que con las Live, habrá una versión Platinum de gama más alta y con conectores separados de la propia tarjeta en una ranura de 5 1/4 (que costará sobre las 40 mil pesetas) y un modelo económico que se situará sobre las 10 mil.
El chip Audigy (EMU10K2) será la respuesta de Creative a la importante amenaza a su supremacía que supondrá el procesador de audio del nuevo chipset nForce que Nvidia mostrará este año.
Las tarjetas que implementen el Audigy contarán con soporte dual para Firewire 1394 (estándar para transmisión de datos desde videocámaras y unidades externas de almacenamiento).
Al igual que con las Live, habrá una versión Platinum de gama más alta y con conectores separados de la propia tarjeta en una ranura de 5 1/4 (que costará sobre las 40 mil pesetas) y un modelo económico que se situará sobre las 10 mil.
El chip Audigy (EMU10K2) será la respuesta de Creative a la importante amenaza a su supremacía que supondrá el procesador de audio del nuevo chipset nForce que Nvidia mostrará este año.
32-bit Professional Quality Effects Engine
Creative's Audigy™ patented effects processor
Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, normalizer, pitch shifter, or distortion across any audio source
Capable of processing, mixing, and positioning audio streams using up to 131 available hardware channels
Full 32-bit digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain, eliminating noise from the signal
Customizable Plug-In Effects Architecture allows new audio effects to be downloaded from the Web via CreativeWare
High Definition Audio Quality Playback of 64 audio channels, each with its own independent sample rate
24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48kHz sample rate
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 48kHz to analog 5.1 speaker output
16-bit recording with sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, and 48kHz
Supports Sony® / Philips® Digital Interface (SPDIF) format input signal of up to 24-bit/96kHz quality
SPDIF output up to 24-bit resolution at selectable sampling rate of 44.1, 48, or 96kHz
Low latency multi-track recording with ASIO™ support
EAX®, ADVANCED HD™, Advanced Audio and 3D Audio Technology Hardware acceleration of EAX ADVANCED HD for games
User-selectable EAX ADVANCED HD music presets, pre-configurable DSP modes simulating various acoustic environments
Advanced time-scaling
Audio Cleanup
Upgradeable 3D audio architecture for future improvements
Dolby® Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in both analog and digital modes
Optimized, user-selectable settings for two, four, or six speakers, headphones, and external A/V amplifiers
Creative Multi Speaker Surround™ (CMSS) technology places any monaural or stereo source in a 360° audio space
SB1394 Connectivity High speed connection to IEEE® 1394 enabled devices with up to 400Mbps transfer rate
Hot-plug support for ease of connecting or disconnecting external devices
Interconnection of up to 63 devices for peer-to-peer communication
SB1394 Certification Program thoroughly tests and certifies participating vendors' 1394-enabled devices with Sound Blaster Audigy for optimal performance and ease of use
Realistic Wave-Table Synthesis Creative's Audigy music synthesis engine
64-voice hardware polyphony with E-mu® Systems, Inc.'s patented 8-point interpolation technology that reduces distortion to inaudible levels
Uses SoundFont® technology for user-definable wave-table sample sets
Unlimited sample size can be loaded into host memory for professional music reproduction (limited to available system memory size)
Scalable PCI wave-table synthesis architecture with multi-timbre capability
48 MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum kits
Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ On-Board Connectors Analog / Digital Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer / 6-channel SPDIF Output)
Line in
Microphone in
Line level out (Front) / Headphone out
Line level out (Rear)
SB1394 port
Telephone Answering Device in
Analog CD Audio in
Digital CD Audio in
Expansion header to an external 15-pin MIDI / Joystick port
Internal SB1394 header to Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)
Expansion header to the Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)
External Audigy Drive Front Panel Connectors PCM SPDIF In and Out (RCA/Coaxial Jack)
Headphone Out (1/4" Stereo Jack with Volume control)
Line In 2 (1/4" Stereo Jack, shared with Microphone In 2)
Microphone In 2 (1/4" Jack with Gain control)
MIDI In (mini DIN)
MIDI Out (mini DIN)
Optical SPDIF In and Out
Stereo Auxiliary In (2 x RCA/Coaxial Jack)
Infra-red Receiver
SB1394 port
SB1394 Extension connector (rear) to the main card*
Audigy Extension connector (rear) to the main card*
* via the Audigy Extension card
Works with the Following Standards Windows® 98, 98SE, NT® 4.0, 2000, and Me
Sound Blaster MIDI and General MIDI
Plug and Play
Sound Blaster PCI
EAX ADVANCED HD
EAX
Microsoft® DirectSound®, DirectSound3D™, and derivatives
PCI 2.1 compliant
AC '97 compliant
Dolby® Digital
ASIO™
Sound Blaster Audigy Audio Performance Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted) = 100 dB
Crosstalk (Left/Right and vice versa) = -100 dB
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (A-Weighted) = 0.004 %
Frequency Response at -3 dBr =