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Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singapore-based global company headquartered in Jurong East, Singapore. The principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries consist of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitized sound and video boards, computers and related multimedia, and personal digital entertainment products.
It also partners with mainboard manufacturers and laptop brands to embed its Sound Blaster technology on their products.
The firm began as a computer repair shop, where Sim Wong Hoo developed an add-on memory board for the Apple II computer. Later, they started creating customized PCs adapted in Chinese. A part of this design included enhanced audio capabilities, so that the device could produce speech and melodies. The success of this audio interface led to the development of a standalone sound card.
In 1987, they released a 12-voice sound generator sound card for the IBM PC architecture, the Creative Music System (C/MS), featuring two Philips SAA1099 chips. Sim personally went from Singapore to Silicon Valley and managed to get RadioShack's Tandy division to market the product. The card was, however, unsuccessful and lost to AdLib. Learning from this, Creative produced the first Sound Blaster, which included the prior CM/S hardware but also incorporated the Yamaha YM3812 chip (also known as OPL2) that was found on the AdLib card, as well as adding a component for playing and recording digital samples. The firm used aggressive marketing strategies, from calling the card a "stereo" component (only the C/MS chips were capable of stereo, not the complete product) to calling the sound producing micro-controller a "DSP" (for "digital sound processor"), hoping to associate the product with a digital signal processor (the DSP could encode/decode ADPCM realtime, but otherwise had no other DSP-like qualities).
The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was the de facto standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, until the widespread transition to Microsoft Windows 95, which standardized the programming interface at application level (eliminating the importance of backward compatibility with Sound Blaster), and the evolution in PC design led to onboard motherboard-audio, which commoditized PC audio functionality.
The creator of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Technology Limited, also known by the name of its United States subsidiary, Creative Labs.
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" stereo sound, 4 channels of which can be used for noise.
These circuits were featured earlier in various popular electronics magazines around the world. For many years Creative tended to use off-the-shelf components and manufacturers' reference designs for their early products. The various integrated circuits had white or black paper stickers fully covering their top thus hiding their identity. On the C/MS board in particular, the Philips chips had white pieces of paper with a fantasy CMS-301 inscription on them: real Creative parts usually had consistent CT number references.
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, a function that calculates the absolute value of a long integer in the C programming languageThe Full Nerd Episode 16 Live! This week Gordon, Adam and Brad host Creative Lab's Ryan Schlieper for some in-depth nerding about PC audio, the API wars and whether your computer will have a soundcard or not again. Be sure to tune in every other Tuesday for the live show and subscribe in your favorite podcast app.
The Full Nerd Episode 16 Live! This week Gordon, Adam and Brad host Creative Lab's Ryan Schlieper for some in-depth nerding about PC audio, the API wars and whether your computer will have a soundcard or not again. Be sure to tune in every other Tuesday for the live show and subscribe in your favorite podcast app.
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Read CES 2014 Creative Sound Blaster Roar show report here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/ces-2014-showstopper-creative-labs-sound-blaster-roar
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http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=57034 This thing actually looks pretty cool, especially with the optional foot pedal!
The Full Nerd Episode 16 Live! This week Gordon, Adam and Brad host Creative Lab's Ryan Schlieper for some in-depth nerding about PC audio, the API wars and whether your computer will have a soundcard or not again. Be sure to tune in every other Tuesday for the live show and subscribe in your favorite podcast app.
The Full Nerd Episode 16 Live! This week Gordon, Adam and Brad host Creative Lab's Ryan Schlieper for some in-depth nerding about PC audio, the API wars and whether your computer will have a soundcard or not again. Be sure to tune in every other Tuesday for the live show and subscribe in your favorite podcast app.
►CHECK UPDATED PRICES or BUY ON AMAZON◄ http://amzn.to/1dflYue ►PLACES I HANGOUT◄ http://facebook.com/JimsReviewRoom http://google.com/+JimsReviewRoom http://twitter.com/JimsReviewRoom ►INFO◄ Creative T50 wireless Speakers Creative Labs T50 Speaker Review Creative Labs T40 speaker -------------------------------- ►SUBSCRIBE YOUTUBE◄ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=JimsReviewRoom -------------------------------- ►MUSIC◄ AUdioTreats - Tonic www.soundcloud.com/AudioTreats ---------------------------------
A demonstration on how to play rock and roll on an electronic keyboard.
Creative Labs X7 Sound Blaster & XM7 Bookshelf Speakers Buy yours here - X7 - UK - http://amzn.to/1jdoDaT US - http://amzn.to/1LinNDV XM7 Speakers UK - http://amzn.to/1GwiyuL US - http://amzn.to/1OYjlfY http://uk.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-x7 he Sound Blaster X7 is the ultimate upgrade for pro-gamers and audio enthusiasts. This feature-packed ultra High Resolution Audio (HRA) device acts as an external USB DAC and a powerful audio amplifier with low-latency Bluetooth® connectivity and Dolby Digital decoder.
Read CES 2014 Creative Sound Blaster Roar show report here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/ces-2014-showstopper-creative-labs-sound-blaster-roar
Pricing & Availability: http://amzn.to/1YuRPdd Limited Edition: http://amzn.to/1KupvOO All of my Gear: http://amzn.to/1H2e1Ag My Amazon Affiliate Link : http://amzn.to/1Ldk0qk Bookmark this and use it when you buy things on amazon to help out the channel. Follow me for more videos and updates: ---------------------------------------------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SrgntBallistic Instagram: http://instagram.com/srgntballistic Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/srgnt_ballistic Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/srgntballistic Google+: http://bit.ly/1pCI3qL Music ------------------------------------------------------------ Weirdough https://soundcloud.com/weirddough https://weirddough.bandcamp.com
Pricing & Availability http://amzn.to/1VceEzO Specs: http://us.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-e5 Pretty great USB DAC and Portable Headphone Amp for those looking to improve the sound quality coming from their devices. Can push some fairly high impedance cans and really helps you get the most out of lower Ohm headphones as well. Really can't be touched for the features it offers at the price. However, the colored sonics might not be to everyone's liking so some might prefer one or more stand alone devices for around the same price. All of my Gear: http://amzn.to/1H2e1Ag My Amazon Affiliate Link : http://amzn.to/1Ldk0qk Bookmark this and use it when you buy things on amazon to help out the channel. Follow me for more videos and updates: -------------------------------------...
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=57034 This thing actually looks pretty cool, especially with the optional foot pedal!
Lucy Alibar, Academy Award Nominee & Screenwriter “Beasts of Southern Wild” at the Creative Lab @ HIFF 2014 public keynote presentation.