- Conquer a new generation of gaming with
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer. Delivering 4X more effects processing
from the Audigy chip, and stunning 24-bit multi-channel playback,
you’ll experience unsurpassed power and audio clarity in gaming.
Taking advantage of that power, EAX ADVANCED HD™ technology
is able to produce high definition multi-environment effects and more,
for the most realistic sound ever experienced. Highly optimized for
the Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer, the new 3D audio engine provides the
most accurate 3D audio rendering, allowing you to locate and frag your
opponents faster than ever before. The on-board SB1394 port lets you
take on other Sound Blaster Audigy owners or anyone with a 1394
connection on their PC for easy PC-to-PC connectivity and low latency
performance surpassing traditional LAN gaming solutions. Audigy Gamer
also includes two of today’s hottest, full-version game titles,
preparing you for the most intense gaming experience imaginable.
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Features
HIGH-DEFINITION GAMING
- 24-bit/ 100db SNR – Experience
high-definition audio quality surpassing high-end home theater
receivers.
- Dolby® Digital Decoding – Enjoy true
5.1 multi-channel playback in games with on-board Dolby Digital
decoding capabilities. No need for a separate decoder.
EAX ADVANCED HD™
- EAX ADVANCED HD offers dramatically increased
3D audio performance and functionality, delivering superior audio
fidelity and sophisticated reverb effects for high-definition audio
environments in games.
EAX ADVANCED HD Takes Gaming to New Heights
- EAX ADVANCED HD offers dramatically increased
3D audio performance and functionality, delivering superior audio
fidelity and sophisticated reverb effects for high definition audio
environments such as Multi-Environment™, Environment Morphing™,
Environment Panning™ , Environment Reflections™ - , Environment
Filtering™ and Extreme Effects™
The Most Accurate 3D Audio Rendering
- Highly optimized for Sound Blaster Audigy, the
new 3D audio engine improves 3D sound imaging in both multi-speaker
systems and headphones allowing you to locate and frag your opponents
quickly.
High Speed Peer-to-Peer Gaming
- SB1394 Connectivity - Create an intense
multi-player gaming environment with easy SB1394 PC-to-PC connectivity
and low latency gameplay performance beyond LAN gaming.
MUSIC
Unsurpassed
clarity in audio CD, MP3 or WMA playback at 24-bit, 100dB SNR.
Rip, Organize,
Burn
- Creative
PlayCenter™ 3 - Your personal digital music center on the PC!
Rip MP3 and WMA files with the included 320 Kbps encoder for up to 9X
encoding acceleration. Burn your own audio CDs from digital music
libraries, create playlists, as well as organize and customize your
entire digital audio collection.
Customize your
music playback with EAX ADVANCED HD
- Audio
Clean-Up - Click Removal and Noise Reduction removes unwanted
"hiss" and scratches from MP3s or recordings from old tapes
and LPs.
- Time
Scaling - Speed up or slow down audio playback without changing
the pitch or audio quality.
- DREAM™
- Create enhanced, "club-like" surround sound from any
stereo source by redirecting the path of a specific frequency range.
SB1394 -
High-Speed, High-Capacity Digital Audio Transfer
- Benefit from
maximum compatibility to qualified devices like the future SB1394
NOMAD® Jukebox, external CD-RW drives and other SB1394 qualified
peripherals.
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Specifications
- INTERFACE -
PCI 32-bit bus-mastering
- MIDI SPECs-
Synthesizer Chip: Audigy
Synthesizer Type: Wavetable
Polyphony : 64 (with 8-point interpolation)
RAM size : Based on System RAM, up to 1GB
Sample Sets : 4 and 8 MB
Synthesizer Effects: Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, Pitch Shifter,
Distortion, etc.
MIDI Channels : 48
Effects Engine : 32-bit
- DIGITAL AUDIO SPECs-
Duplex Type : Full
Max. Recording Depth : 16-bit
Max. Recording Rate : 48kHz
Max. Playback Depth : 24-bit
Max. Playback Rate : 96kHz
Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 100dB
Soundfont Support : Yes, including Soundfont 2.1
Built-in Amplifier : No
- CONNECTORS
Microphone In; Line In; Line Out
(Front)/Speaker Out; Line Out (Rear); MIDI/Joystick Port, as a
separate attachment. MPC3 CD Audio In; Auxiliary In; S/PDIF In (on
AudigyDrive); Telephone Answering Device (TAD) In.
24-bit DAC (Digital to Analog Convertor); 24-bit ADC (Analog to
Digital Convertor); Analog/Digital Out Yes (Analog: Center &
Subwoofer/Digital: 6-channel S/PDIF); Digital DIN Support; SB1394
Connector; CD Digital In.
- MISC.
4 Speaker Support, Creative MultiSpeaker
Surround, Creative Environments, 5.1 Speaker Support, Headphone
Support, Front/Rear Speaker Level Adjustment, Center Speaker Level
Adjustment, Subwoofer Level Adjustment, Crossover Frequency Adjustment
(10 - 200Hz), Dolby Digital 5.1 Pass-through (with Dolby
Digital-capable softDVD player), DTS pass-through Yes (with
DTS-capable softDVD player).
- AUDIGY DRIVE
Uses internal 5.25" bay. Includes InfraRed
receiver and InfraRed Remote Control with batteries.
Ports: S/PDIF Out, Optical In, Optical Out, Aux In 2, Headphone Out,
Line In 2, Mic In 2 (shared with Line In 2). Supports both dynamic and
condenser types.
- COMPATIBLE
Windows ME/2000/Windows 98 (Win 98SE required
for SB1394 support), Windows NT 4.0, DOS. Windows XP downloadable.
General MIDI, MPC3, Plug & Play, Sound Blaster PCI, EAX Support,
Microsoft DirectSound, Microsoft DirectSound 3D & Derivatives,
AC'97, MPU-401 UART, Dolby® Digital 5.1 decoding, EAX Advanced HD,
ASIO Support.
- SOFTWARE
Creative PlayCenter 3, Creative Surround Mixer,
Goldmine Demo, Oozic™ Player,
Giants: Citizen Kabuto, FireNet - Unibrain.
- REQUIRES
Min: Intel® Pentium® 266MHz, AMD® K6 300MHz
or faster processor; Intel®, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard
chipset. 64MB system RAM (128MB Highly Recommended) 600 MB of free
hard disk space Windows® 98/98SE/NT® 4.0/2000/Millennium Edition
(Windows XP drivers to be downloaded from www.soundblaster.com).
Free half-length PCI 2.1 compliant slot for Audigy™ card. Free
adjacent slot for Joystick/MIDI bracket (optional). Headphones or
amplified speakers (available separately). CD-ROM drive required for
software installation. Free 5 1/4" PC drive bay (for Sound
Blaster Audigy drive).
Additional Requirements:
- CPU: Intel® Pentium® II 350 MHz/MMX
or AMD® 450 MHz/3Dnow! for SB1394 applications or games.
- SB1394: Works only on Windows® 98
SE/2000/Millennium Edition.
- DV Editing: 128MB recommended for
Digital Video (DV) capture and editing. Ultra DMA hard disk with 1GB
workspace (ATA-100, 7,200rpm with 6GB recommended.
Games: 128MB system memory recommended, a 3D accelerator with at least
8MB of texture RAM, available 300-500MB disk space. Games may not work
optimally under Windows 2000. Check out latest updates from
www.soundblaster.com.
- DVD: At least a 2nd generation DVD-ROM
drive with these recommended soft-DVD players: Intervideo's WinDVD
2000 or CyberLink's PowerDVD 3.0 and above.
- Internet Radio: Requires at least a
56Kbps modem and an active Internet connection before running the
application.
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