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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!, PCI 512, and Audigy audio device
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "emu* at pci?"
43.Cd "audio* at emu?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47device driver supports Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live!,
48Sound Blaster PCI 512,
49and SoundBlaster Audigy cards.
50.Pp
51These Environmental Audio cards are based upon the programmable EMU10K1
52digital-processing chip.
53.Pp
54Hardware features:
55.Bl -bullet -offset indent
56.It
57E-mu Systems, Inc. EMU10K1 music synthesis engine
58.It
5964-voice hardware polyphony with E-mu's patented 8-point interpolation
60technology
61.It
62Up to 1024-voice polyphony with multi-timbre capability
63.It
64Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch
65shifter, or distortion across any audio source
66.It
67User-selectable settings are optimized for headphones, two or four speakers
68.It
69Processes sample rates from 5kHz to 48kHz
70.It
71Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) places any mono or stereo sound
72source in a 360 degree audio space
73.It
74Hardware full-duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback
75at 8 standard sample rates
76.It
77Allows multiple audio sources playback on the same speaker system
78.El
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr ac97 4 ,
81.Xr audio 4 ,
82.Xr intro 4 ,
83.Xr joy 4 ,
84.Xr pci 4
85.Sh HISTORY
86The
87.Nm
88device driver appeared in
89.Ox 3.1 .
90.Sh AUTHORS
91.An -nosplit
92The
93.Nm
94driver was written by
95.An Yannick Montulet Aq yannick.montulet@epitech.net
96and ported to
97.Ox 3.1
98by
99.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
100.Sh CAVEATS
101ATTENTION!
102.Pp
103The hardware interface of this card contains registers not used
104for normal operation, but potentially dangerous
105and not possible to disable.
106Potential damage ranges from frying the card to frying
107motherboard or external equipment connected to its outputs.
108.Sh BUGS
109Currently this driver does not support MIDI, joystick input,
110or the multi-voice capability.
111.Pp
112There is currently no way to control the volume of the DAC for
113SoundBlaster Audigy cards.
114.Pp
115S-PDIF digital output does not work for
116SoundBlaster Live! and
117SoundBlaster Audigy cards.
118