A family of sound cards from Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster protocol has become the de facto audio standard for PCs. Monaural versions of Sound Blaster cards were introduced in 1989, and a stereo version three years later. The Sound Blaster AWE32 and AWE64 are 16-bit sound cards that provide WaveTable MIDI with 32 and 64 voices respectively.
a sound card for IBM PC and compatibles, designed to provide higher quality sound for games and applications
Hardware produced by Creative Labs, Inc., that represents for MS-DOS-based games one of the major hardware interfaces for both audio and music (specifically MMI) data.
Created by Creative Labs Inc., Sound Blaster is a very common audio standard found in today's PCs and sound cards.
Sound Blaster is a series of audio cards by Creative Labs which has set the industry standard for PC audio. Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 series ¨C the latest range of audio cards in the Sound Blaster family ¨C are empowered with 24-bit ADVANCED HD (tm) and EAX ADVANCED HD (tm) which gives you the best audio experience with high definition, clarity and realism.
The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was for many years the de facto standard for audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, before PC audio became commoditized, and backward-compatibility became less of a feature. The creator of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Technology, also known by the name of its United States subsidiary, Creative Labs.