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35.Dd October 18, 2001
36.Dt EMU 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm emu
40.Nd Creative Labs SBLive! and PCI 512 audio device driver
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "emu* at pci? dev ? function ?"
43.Cd "audio* at emu?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47device driver supports Creative
48Sound Blaster Live! cards as well as the Sound Blaster PCI 512.
49.Pp
50These Environmental Audio cards are based upon the programmable EMU10K1
51digital-processing chip.
52.Pp
53Hardware features:
54.Bl -bullet -compact
55.It
56E-mu Systems, Inc. EMU10K1 music synthesis engine
57.It
5864-voice hardware polyphony with E-mu's patented 8-point interpolation
59technology
60.It
61Up 1024-voice polyphony with multi-timbre capability
62.It
63Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch
64shifter, or distortion across any audio source
65.It
66User-selectable settings are optimized for headphones, two or four speakers
67.It
68Creative Multi Speaker Surround technology places any mono or stereo source
69in a 360 degree audio space
70.It
71Processes sample rates from 5kHz to 48kHz
72.It
73Hardware full duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback
74at 8 standard sample rates
75.It
76Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) places any mono or stereo sound
77source in a 360 degree audio space
78.It
79Hardware full-duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback
80at 8 standard sample rates
81.It
82Allows multiple audio sources playback on the same speaker system
83.El
84.Sh SEE ALSO
85.Xr ac97 4 ,
86.Xr audio 4 ,
87.Xr intro 4 ,
88.Xr joy 4 ,
89.Xr pci 4
90.Sh HISTORY
91The
92.Nm
93device driver appeared in
94.Ox 3.1 .
95.Sh AUTHORS
96The
97.Nm
98driver was written by
99.An Yannick Montulet Aq yannick.montulet@epitech.net
100and ported to
101.Ox 3.1
102by
103.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
104.Sh BUGS
105Currently, this driver does not support recording,
106MIDI, joystick input or the multi-voice capability.
107