Creative® Sound Blaster® Live! 5.1 Dolby Digital PCI Sound Card

The Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 24-bit sound card brings cinema-style 5.1 Dolby Digital sound quality to your desktop PC, so you can get the most out of your DVDs, music games. Compatible with 5.1 Dolby Digital speaker systems, it enables your PC to produce full surround sound in either digital or analog mode. Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 comes with a complete assortment of audio software including Creative PlayCenter™ with a 320kbps encoder and 9x MP3 acceleration which allows you to create, edit, rip and listen to high quality MP3 and WMA files. The included EAX® Audio Technology, powered by the EMU10K1™ Digital Signal Processor, allows you to adjust the bass and treble of your audio and add effects like "arena" or "concert hall" for a custom listening experience.

Sound Blaster Live! is also a great card for professional-level music production. It enables you to load up to 32MB of sample sounds into your PC's host memory, and it provides 48 MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum kits. For maximum functionality, it also provides an extremely versatile range of ports and interfaces that includes an IBM compatible 15-pin joystick port with analog support, Analog/Digital Out, Line In, Microphone In, Line Level Out(front)/Headphone Out, Line Level Out (rear), MIDI In, Telephone Answering Device In, MPC-3 Analog CD Audio In and Digital CD Audio In.

Includes a digital CD audio cable, a user manual CD-ROM and drivers for Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, Me and XP.