Editing Sound Blaster (section)

==Second-generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA & MCA cards==
===Sound Blaster Pro, CT1330===
[[Image:CT1330A.jpg|thumb|Sound Blaster Pro (CT1330A) rev.4]]Model CT1330, announced in May 1991, was the first significant redesign of the card's core features, and complied with the Microsoft MPC standard.{{r|english199206}}. The Sound Blaster Pro supported faster digital input and output sampling rates (up to 22.05&nbsp;kHz stereo or 44.1&nbsp;kHz mono), added a "[[Sound card mixer|mixer]]" to provide a crude master volume control (independent of the volume of sound sources feeding the mixer), and a crude high pass or low pass filter. The Sound Blaster Pro used a pair of [[Yamaha YM3812|YM3812]] chips to provide stereo music-synthesis (one for each channel). The Sound Blaster Pro was fully backward compatible with the original Sound Blaster line, and by extension, the [[AdLib]] sound card. The Sound Blaster Pro was the first Creative sound card to have a built-in [[CD-ROM]] interface. Most Sound Blaster Pro cards featured a proprietary interface for a [[Panasonic]] ([[Panasonic CD interface|Matsushita MKE]]) drive. The Sound Blaster Pro cards are basically 8-bit ISA cards, they use only the lower 8 data bits of the ISA bus. While at first glance it appears to be a 16-bit ISA card, it does not have 'fingers' for data transfer on the higher "AT" portion of the bus connector. It uses the 16-bit extension to the ISA bus to provide the user with an additional choice for an IRQ (10) and DMA (0)m channel only found on the 16-bit portion of the edge connector.

A short lived joint developed project between Creative and Tandy resulted in the Creative/Tandy Multimedia Sound Adapter, 849–3030. This Sound Blaster Pro derived card was factory installed in Tandy Multimedia PCs. It combined the CT1330 with Tandy joystick and MIDI ports (not MPU-401 compatible).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/creative-tandy-multimedia-sound-adapter-849-3030.47416|title=Creative/Tandy Multimedia Sound Adapter, 849-3030|website=forum.vcfed.org|access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref>

===Sound Blaster Pro 2, CT1600===
[[Image:Ct1600.jpg|thumb|Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600)]]

The revised version, the Sound Blaster Pro 2, CT1600, replaced the YM3812s with a more advanced Yamaha [[YMF262]] (''OPL3''). Otherwise it is functionally identical to the original Sound Blaster Pro. Shortly after the release of the Sound Blaster Pro 2 version, Creative discontinued the original Sound Blaster Pro.

The Sound Blaster Pro 2 was also sold with the following on-board [[CD-ROM]] controllers:
*Sound Blaster Pro 2, [[SCSI]], CT1610
*Sound Blaster Pro 2, [[Laser Magnetic Storage International|LMSI]], CT1620
*Sound Blaster Pro 2, [[Sony]], CT1690
*Sound Blaster Pro 2, [[Mitsumi]], CT2600

Packaged Sound Blaster cards were initially marketed and sold into the retail-channel. Creative's domination of the PC audio card business soon had them selling the Sound Blaster Pro 2 [[Original equipment manufacturer|OEM]], CT1680, to customers for integration into pre-assembled PCs.

Creative also sold Multimedia Upgrade Kits containing the Sound Blaster Pro. The kit bundled the sound card, a Matsushita CD-ROM drive (model 531 for single-speed, or 562/3 for the later double-speed (2x) drives), and several CD-ROMs of multimedia software titles. As CD-ROM technology was new, the kit included CD-ROM software, representing a very good value to customers. One such kit, named "OmniCD", included the 2x Matsushita drive along with an ISA controller card and software, including [[The Software Toolworks|Software Toolworks]] Encyclopedia and [[Aldus PhotoStyler]] SE. It was compliant with the [[Multimedia PC|MPC Level 2]] standard.

===Sound Blaster Pro 2 MCV, CT5330===
The Sound Blaster Pro 2 MCV, CT5330, was a version created for [[IBM]] [[IBM Personal System/2|PS/2]] model 50 and higher and their [[MicroChannel]] bus. [[File:CT5330.jpg|thumb]]