XX February, 1995 - Creative Technology Ltd today announced Wave Blaster II, the newest addition to its expanding Blaster family of innovative multimedia products for the PC.

WaveBlaster II is a general MIDI wave table synthesis daughterboard for Creative's line of upgradeable Sound Blaster 16 audio cards. Wave table synthesis enables users to produce realistic instrument sounds. Wave Blaster II uses E-mu Systems EMU8000, the same integrated audio digital signal processor found on Creative's popular Sound Blaster AWE32.

"With the broad acceptance of the AWE32 , many wave table software titles are now hitting the market and the demand for high performance boards continues to grow," said XXX, Creative Labs UK. "Wave Blaster II brings all the functionality of the AWE 32 to our huge base of Sound Blaster 16 users."

Using E-mu Systems' patented digital sample playback synthesis, Wave Blaster II provides 2MB ROM of samples, including 128 instruments and sound effects and over 400 percussion sounds. The product also incorporates 32-note, 16 channel polyphony. Wave Blaster II supports General MIDI, Sound Canvas, and MT-32 sound sets. Additionally, it offers users special effects such as pan, chorus, reverb and QSound.

Included with Wave Blaster II is Cakewalk Apprentice for Windows, a 256 track graphic MIDI sequencer that has an easy to use interface that allows users to view and edit music in piano roll, event list and staff notation. A MIDI adapter cable is included for connecting MIDI instruments to Sound Blaster 16 audio cards. Wave Blaster II will retail at £129.00.

About Creative ...
Creative Labs UK is a subsidiary of Creative Technology, the world leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of multimedia products for PCs. Best known for establishing its Sound Blaster system as the industry standard for PC audio - with sales of over 1 million a month - Creative also leads the market in multimedia upgrade kits, video boards and voice recognition technology.

Creative Technology was founded in 1981 and is based in Singapore. The company's subsidiaries include Creative Labs in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and the US. The European head office is based at Ruscombe, near Twyford. In January 1994, Creative opened its technical support group in Dublin, which provides telephone support to French, German and English-speaking customers across Europe. Creative's stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange, with record sales in 1994 of $658 million - a 126% increase on 1993.