General:

The SB AWE32 is a standard SB16 with the EMU 8000 Advanced WavEffect music synthesizer chip. The card includes all the standard SB16 features.

The EMU8000 is a sub-system offering high quality music synthesis using advanced wave effects technology. It comes with an onboard dedicated effect engine. The effect engine provides high quality effects like reverb and chorus to MIDI playback. The EMU8000 supports up to 32 voices, and the effect amount for each voice can be controlled via MIDI.

The Sound Blaster AWE32 cards include the following models:

• CT3999
• CT3991
• CT3990
• CT3980
• CT3930
• CT3900
• CT3919
• CT3910
• CT3780 (SB AWE32 Value, no Wave Blaster header)
• CT2760 (Creative/Panasonic Interface)
• CT2760A (Creative/Panasonic Interface)

Wave-Table Synthesis

• E-mu Systems EMU8000 wave-table synthesizer
• Digital Effects engine for reverb, chorus, flange, and delay
• 32-voice polyphony and multi-timbral capability
• 128 GM & Gs compatible instruments and 10 drum kits
• 16 MIDI channels
• 1MB ROM of built-in sound samples

Advanced Audio Technology

• SoundFont downloadable samples allow new sounds and musical instruments to be added to the card
• E-mu 3D Positional Audio positions sound in a 360 degree environment, providing an immersive audio experience with supported applications
• Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement Technology expands the spaciousness of the sounds in a traditional two speaker system
• Hardware acceleration of Microsoft DirectSound games and applications

Memory Subsystem

• 512k onboard RAM supports SoundFont banks and E-mu 3D Positional Audio
• Expandable up to 28MB of RAM with 30pin SIMM sockets

CD-Quality, 16-Bit Stereo Digital Audio

• 8 and 16-bit, mono and stereo recording and playback
• User-selectable sample rates from the 5kHz to 44.1kHz
• Full Duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback for Internet communications software

Other Specifications

• Signal to Noise: 85 dB
• Frequency Response: 20Hz-20kHz
• Year 2000 Compliant
• Built-In Stereo Power Amplifier: Yes
• Built-In Digital/Analog Mixer: Yes
• CD-ROM Interface: IDE

Hardware Settings
Note: settings are software selectable via Plug and Play for the CT39xx AWE32 cards. The I/O port for other AWE32 models (CT27xx) can only be changed via jumpers on the card.

• Interrupt (IRQ): 2, 5, 7, 10
• 8-bit DMA Channel: 0, 1, 3
• 16-bit DMA Channel: 5, 6, 7
• Joystick I/O Address: 200 Hex
• Audio I/O Address: 220, 240, 260, 280 Hex
• MPU-401 I/O Address: 300, 330 Hex
• FM Synthesizer I/O Address: 388 Hex
• Wave Synthesizer I/O Address: 6x0, Ax0, Ex0 Hex
• IDE Interface Port: Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
• IDE Interface IRQ: 10, 11, 12, 15
• MPU-401 Port [Enabled] (MFBEN closed), Disabled (MFBEN open)
• Extra DRAM Present Enabled (DRAM_EN on 1 & 2), [Disabled] (DRAM_EN on 2 & 3)

Connectors

• Line-In: Yes
• Mic-In: Yes
• Line-Out: Yes
• Speaker-Out: Yes
• PC Speaker-In: Yes
• SPDIF-Out: Yes
• Game/Joystick Port: Yes
• CD-ROM Audio-In (SB Audio Socket): Yes
• CD-ROM Audio-In (MPC2 Socket): Yes
• 30-pin SIMM RAM Upgrade Module: Yes (512k on-board RAM)
• CSP Chip Socket: No
• Wave Blaster Daughter Board Connector: Yes (Except CT3780)
• External CD-ROM: Not Applicable
• Modem Feature Connector: Yes

Minimum System Requirements

• 80386 or faster processor
• 4MB system RAM
• Windows® 3.1 / Windows® 9x
• Open, half-length 16-bit ISA slot
• Speakers or headphones