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.Dd October 18, 2001
.Dt EMUXKI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm emu
.Nd Creative Labs SBLive! and PCI 512 audio device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "emu* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Cd "audio* at emu?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device driver supports Creative
Sound Blaster Live! cards as well as the Sound Blaster PCI 512.
.Pp
These Environmental Audio cards are based upon eprogrammable EMU10K1
digital-processing chip.
.Pp
Hardware features:
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
E-mu Systems, Inc. EMU10K1 music synthesis engine
.It
64-voice hardware polyphony with E-mu's patented 8-point interpolation
technology
.It
Up 1024-voice polyphony with multi-timbre capability
.It
Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch
shifter, or distortion across any audio source
.It
User-selectable settings are optimized for headphones, two or four speakers
.It
Creative Multi Speaker Surround technology places any mono or stereo source
in a 360 degree audio space
.It
Processes sample rates from 5kHz to 48kHz
.It
Hardware full duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback
at 8 standard sample rates
.It
Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) places any mono or stereo sound
source in a 360 degree audio space
.It
Hardware full-duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback
at 8 standard sample rates
.It
Allows multiple audio sources playback on the same speaker system
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr audio 4 ,
.Xr joy 4 ,
.Xr mpu 4 ,
.Xr pci 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver appeared in
.Ox 3.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Yannick Montulet Aq yannick.montulet@epitech.net
and ported to
.Ox 3.1
by
.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
.Sh BUGS
Currently, this driver does not support recording,
MIDI, joystick input or the multi-voice capability.