CREATIVE AWE64 - Manual (Page 6)

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Introduction
Welcome to the exciting world of Advanced WavEffects synthesis!
You are now the owner of a Creative Sound Blaster
® AWE64 Gold, a
16-bit audio card, which comes with the state-of-the-art Creative
WaveSynth/WG software.
Your Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold audio card allows you to achieve
realistic and three-dimensional (3D) acoustic reproduction through a
wide range of digitized sound samples and Creative 3D Stereo
Enhancement technology.
Fully Sound Blaster compatible, your AWE64 Gold audio card
supports the following features:
❑ Plug and Play ISA Specification version 1.0a compliance
❑ Major MIDI standards such as General MIDI, Roland GS and
MT-32
❑ Compression algorithms such as A-law, Mu-law, CTADPCM,
and IMA-ADPCM
❑ Full duplex operation for simultaneous audio recording and
playback
Creative WaveSynth/WG employs the latest technologies for sound
creation and playback in personal computer software: sample-based
wavetable synthesis (WaveSynth) and physical model-based
waveguide (WG) synthesis.
With your AWE64 Gold audio card installed in an Intel Pentium 90
MHz (or higher) computer, the sample-based wavetable synthesizer
allows you to play high quality music and sound effects via software
(instead of hardware) in any Windows-based multimedia application.
It also has a physical model-based waveguide synthesizer which uses
Sondius
® Sound Synthesis technology to enable you to play
waveguide sounds polyphonically and multi-timbrally. In other
words, you can play many notes and different instruments or sound
effects at the same time. WaveSynth/WG is also a General MIDI
synthesizer that acts like a multi-channel mixer with high quality
reverb.