Sound Blaster [SEP] manufacturer
of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Technology Limited, also known by the name of its United States subsidiary, Creative Labs.
Creative Music System and Game Blaster.
Creative Music System and Game Blaster Creative Music System.
The history of Creative sound cards started with the release of the Creative Music System ("C/MS") CT-1300 board in August 1987. It contained two Philips SAA1099 circuits, which, together, provided 12 channels of square-wave "bee-in-a-box
for applications that wish to take advantage of hardware accelerated high-quality 3D positional audio is to use OpenAL. However, this only works if the manufacturer provides an OpenAL driver for their hardware.
As of 2007, a solution to re-enable hardware acceleration of DirectSound3D and Audio Effects, such as EAX, called "Creative ALchemy" was launched. Creative ALchemy intercepts calls to DirectSound3D and translates them into OpenAL calls to be processed by supported hardware such as Sound Blaster X-Fi and Sound Blaster Audigy. For software