Milpitas, CA. Creative Technology Ltd., of SoundBlaster™ fame, and the world’s leading provider of multimedia products for personal computers, today announced extensive plans to move its product lines towards net and web worthiness.
The key audio product involved in this shift is NetSynth™, a Sound Blaster compliant software synthesizer licensed from Seer Systems. NetSynth plays high-quality MIDI on-line. It offers wave-table synthesis technology, 32-note polyphony, and high-quality reverb, so users can experience a sound fidelity not commonly found from Internet sources today.
It also supports physical modeling of audio, implementing waveguide synthesis via Sondius® technology from Stanford University. NetSynth includes one WaveGuide instrument, to demonstrate the richness available through this relatively new synthesis technique.
The software engine of NetSynth is also available to OEM’s supporting SoundBlaster cards as WaveSynth™.
Creative is also jumping in to Internet telephony, with WebPhone™, a point-to-point communication device that operates like a real phone over the Internet. It comes bundled with a SoundBlaster card. The WebPhone has an interface like a cellular phone, and it features full-duplex audio, speed dialing, voice mail, and e-mail capabilities.
Other audio technologies that Creative is touting as keys to its Internet push are its own 3D audio simulation and SoundFonts™, as well as RealAudio from Progressive Networks, which will be bundled with its Internet-ready products.
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