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A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs. The term sound card is also applied to external audio interfaces used for professional audio applications.
Sound Blaster Live! is a PCI add-on sound card from Creative Technology Limited for PCs. Moving from ISA to PCI allowed the card to dispense with onboard memory, storing digital samples in the computer's main memory and then accessing them in real time over the bus. This allowed for a much wider selection of, and longer playing, samples.
The card was and is often mistakenly called LAPC-1, but photos of the card's PCB and retail box show a capital letter I rather than a figure 1. Further evidence can be found in the owners manual which mentions the LAPC-I and also MCB-1, clearly showing specific use of I instead of 1. [2] The "I" presumably stands for "IBM PC", and the "N" for ...
The sound card with the external DAC consumes 75 W, and thus is the first sound card from Creative that requires auxiliary power, using a 6-pin PCI-E connector to supply power to the external DAC. The card was officially released on July 10, 2019, to celebrate 30 years since the introduction of the original Sound Blaster.
In addition to PCI and PCIe internal sound cards, Creative also released an external USB-based solution (named X-Mod) in November 2006. X-Mod is listed in the same category as the rest of the X-Fi lineup, but is only a stereo device, marketed to improve music playing from laptop computers, and with lower specifications than the internal offerings.
AdLib used Yamaha's YM3812 sound chip, which produces sound by FM synthesis. The AdLib card consisted of a YM3812 chip with off-the-shelf external glue logic to plug into a standard PC-compatible ISA 8-bit slot. PC software-generated multitimbral music and sound effects through the AdLib card, although the acoustic quality was distinctly ...
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console (later models), FM Towns computer, Sega arcade systems: Improved Yamaha YM2612, PCM supported on one of the channels, silicon-gate CMOS LSI chip Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3) 1990 [76] 36 18 4 Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards for PC (including Sound Blaster 16, AdLib Gold 1000 and AWE32) Silicon-gate CMOS chip ...
External (USB) 26 August 2011 [11] Interchangeable op-amps. Later released same card with different installed op-amps as Essence One Plus and MUSES Edition. Xonar Essence ST PCI 18 May 2009 [12] [13] Xonar Essence STU External Xonar Essence STX PCIe 13 November 2008 [14] PCI Express version of the Xonar Essence ST [15] Xonar Essence STX II [16]