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This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2008) Sound Blaster 16 with Wave Blaster header (top left) Diamond Monster Sound MX300 with a Roland Sound Canvas SCB-55 daughtercard attached. The Wave Blaster was an add-on MIDI-synthesizer for Creative Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster AWE32, and AWE64 family of PC soundcards. It was a sample-based synthesis General MIDI compliant synthesizer. For General MIDI scores, the Wave Blaster's wavetable-engine produced more realistic instrumental music than the SB16's onboard Yamaha-OPL3. The Wave Blaster attached to a SB16 through a 26-pin expansion-header, eliminating the need for extra cabling between the SB16 and the Wave Blaster. The SB16 emulated an MPU-401 UART, giving existing MIDI-software the option to send MIDI-sequences directly to the attached Wave Blaster, instead of driving an external MIDI-device. The Wave Blaster's analog stereo-output fed into a dedicated line-in on the SB16, where the onboard-mixer allowed equalization, mixing, and volume adjustment. The Wave Blaster port was adopted by other sound card manufacturers who produced both daughterboards and soundcards with the expansion-header: Yamaha, Ensoniq, Orchid, Oberheim, Guillemot, Diamond, TerraTec, Roland, and Turtle Beach. The header also appeared on devices such as the Korg NX5R MIDI sound module, the Oberheim MC-1000/MC-2000 keyboards, and the TerraTec Axon AX-100 Guitar-to-MIDI converter. Although new Wave Blaster-capable sound cards for computers haven't been produced for years, Terratec still produces their Axon AX-100 Guitar-to-MIDI converter that uses a Wave Blaster port to add sound generation capability. In 2005, they released a new Wave Blaster daughterboard called the Wave XTable with 16mb of on-board sample memory comprising 500 instruments and 10 drum kits. WaveBlaster II Creative released the Waveblaster II shortly after the original Waveblaster. Waveblaster II used a newer EMU-8000 synthesis-engine (which later appeared in the AWE32,) Despite using a smaller 2MB instrument ROM (vs 4MB of the original Waveblaster, the Waveblaster II delivered better renditions in most MIDI-scored games, likely due to better sample refinement and balancing between instruments. While the original Waveblaster greatly improved upon the acoustic quality of the SB16's built-in FM-synthesis, the acoustic quality of its instrument-set was poorly regarded. By the time the SB16 reached the height of its popularity, competing MIDI-daughterboards had already pushed aside the Waveblaster. In particular, Roland's Sound Canvas daughterboards (SCD-10/15), priced only slightly more than Creative's offering, were highly regarded for their unrivalled musical reproduction in MIDI-scored game titles. (This was due to Roland's dominance in the production aspect of the PC game soundtracks; Roland's daughterboards shared the same synthesis-engine and instrument sound-set as the popular Sound Canvas 55, a commercial MIDI module favored by game composers.) By comparison, the WaveBlaster's instruments were improperly balanced, with many instruments striking at different volume-levels (relative to the de-facto standard, Sound Canvas.) WaveBlaster Connector Pinout Pin Function Pin Function 1 DGnd 2 - 3 DGnd 4 TTL-MIDI input 5 DGnd 6 +5 Volts 7 DGnd 8 TTL-MIDI output 9 DGnd 10 +5 Volts 11 DGnd 12 Audio R in 13 - 14 +5 Volts 15 AGnd 16 Audio L in 17 AGnd 18 +12 Volts 19 AGnd 20 Audio R out 21 AGnd 22 -12 Volts 23 AGnd 24 Audio L out 25 AGnd 26 !Reset AGnd = Analog ground DGnd = Digital ground Some Wave Blaster cards offer audio inputs ( Yamaha DB60XG ) Some Wave Blaster cards offer TTL-MIDI output Reset is active low External links Waveblaster pin-out information Terratec Wave XTable (Broke Link as 15/4/08) Terratec MKII Update Waveblaster card photos (text in Japanese)