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SoundBlaster Live! delayed to March

updated 03:54 pm EST, Wed January 10, 2001


Creative Labs indicated today that the SoundBlaster Live! for the Mac is not expected to ship until March due to minor bugs and issues with portions of the product being developed by third-party partners. "We could have been the irresponsible company and released at the show," a Creative representative told MacNN, "but we would rather release a completely tested and solid product for our customers." Currently, the company has worked with Westlake Interactive to add OpenAL support, an open-source sound API, to Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex, which are being demonstrated at Macworld Expo San Francisco 2001 (booth #2339). In addition, Creative is working with other developers to add OpenAL support to existing games so that customers will be able to take advantage of 4-channel sound output for locational audio and ambient sounds.


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    damn

    and i already preordered one from buy.com

    wasn't this announced at the january 2000 macworld?

    come on creative get your act together

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    not far off

    At MWSF 2000, Creative announced the card and said that it would be ready in about a year. Like the report says, the company itself has all of its stuff together but some of their partners' things have some issues remaining to fix.

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    Unreal Tournament

    While they are at it, why don't they get Westlake to make UT a Carbon app that uses OpenGL so we can run it on OS X. Then I'll buy the card just as thanks.

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    UT

    Creative doesn't own UT that they could get Westlake to modify it.

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    Creative Soundblaster

    I've Noticed there are no Software installers or support software available on Creative's site- so I figured something was wrong.
    Heck- We don't even know if this card will work with ANY applications (Logic,Performer,Vision, Cubase,Protools,Deck, Peak, etc..)- you'd think they would at least tell us what we can expect to use their card with .
    --any thoughts ??

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    ASIO

    I just would like to know if the card has ASIO-2 support, that would be the only way I would buy it.

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    compatibility

    I think they are working to make the card compatible with all of the popular applications out there: Logic, Cubasis/Cubase, Peak, etc. The driver ships with sound manager support, and with an OMS driver for MIDI, hopefully an ASIO driver will be done as a web update.

    The card is really very cool, in the bundle you will get the card, a midi cable, a sequencing app (Cubasis?), a game that uses eax effects, a sound editing app and so on.

    The big thing, that I don't think was really mentioned is that this is a way to get solid midi into a g3/g4 class computer. The USB interfaces are getting better, but USB timing is still a little flakey. The SoundBlaster card is on the PCI bus, so it's possbile to get very solid MIDI timing.

    Additionally there is support for soundfonts. This is a really big deal. You basically get a 64 channel midi based sampler for a really low price.

    This card looks good. I think it's a real shame that it wasn't ready for the show, but the indications are that it will be very solid when it ships in a couple of weeks and that it will have a great software bundle and a useful list of features.

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    Is it beige-compatible?

    I'd love to stick one in my 7500/G4... does anyone know if it's truly beige-compatible? When I talked to Creative's rep at MWNY last summer I got just about nothing out of the guy about this issue. Maybe it's a shill to get a new machine?

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    Card Compatibility

    Last time I checked, This card is even compatible with Clones so you should be okay to use it in the beige computer

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    Compatible back to 7200!

    They said at Macworld it would work on PowerMacs back to the 7200 (except funky PCI models like the 6400 series). WOOHOO!
    That means it'll work on my 9600.

    Man, that machine is such a workhorse for me. I hope nothing ever goes wrong with it (crossing fingers). ;-)

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