Creative Announces Sound Blaster 32

Next Generation Sound Blaster Extends Family of Wave-Table Products

SINGAPORE -- June 6, 1995 -- Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF) today
announced Sound Blaster 32, a professional PC audio card that combines
industry standard Sound Blaster audio with Creative's powerful wave-table
synthesis technology and up to 32 note polyphony. Sound Blaster 32 is an
entry level solution that further extends the Sound Blaster standard to
the next generation of audio technology at an economical price point. The
product provides genuine instrument sounds and digital effects processing
for entertainment titles, business presentations and music applications.
Sound Blaster 32 will be available this month at retail outlets for a
projected price of $169.99

"Sound Blaster 32 brings high-quality professional audio to the mass
market, and it continues Creative's commitment to providing products that
serve consumers' diverse needs," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of
U.S. software and product marketing for Creative Labs, Inc., Creative
Technology's U.S. subsidiary. "By offering next generation Sound Blaster
audio with wave-table synthesis at aggressive consumer pricing and
assuring software support from leading developers, Creative is redefining
the audio standard in multimedia computing."

Features of Sound Blaster 32

Sound Blaster 32 uses E-mu Systems' EMU8000 chip to provide 32-note
polyphony of realistic wave-table sounds, 128 General MIDI-compatible
instruments and sounds, 10 drum kits, and reverb and chorus effects. It
also provides 16-bit digital stereo sampling and playback; enhanced FM
synthesis and a variety of software titles, including Voyetra MIDI
Orchestrator Plus and Creative's family of audio utilities. In addition,
Sound Blaster 32 features an IDE CD-ROM interface for connection to
today's high-speed CDROM drives and an upgrade path for adding up to 28 MB
of standard memory. The additional memory allows new instruments and
sounds to be easily added to the card.

"Whether it's an online game, an interactive encyclopedia or a classical
music score, Sound Blaster 32 turbocharges multimedia computing with
special effects and real instrument sounds," said Scott Taylor, audio
product marketing manager for Creative Labs, Inc.

All of Creative's current Sound Blaster audio cards now either incorporate
wave-table synthesis or are wave-table upgradeable with Wave Blaster II, a
General MIDI wavetable synthesis daughterboard.

Creative's wave-table product line now includes Sound Blaster AWE32, Sound
Blaster 32 and Wave Blaster II-GamePak. From the high-end award-winning
AWE32 audio card to the Wave Blaster II-GamePak wave-table upgrade
daughterboard, Creative is dedicated to providing consumers with a
wide-range of wave-table solutions.

Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a family of
sound, video, software and telephony multimedia products for PCs under the
Blaster family name, and the ShareVision line of desktop video
conferencing products for Macintoshes and PCs. The
company's Sound Blaster sound platform enables PCs to produce high-quality
audio for entertainment, educational, music and productivity applications,
and has been accepted as the industry standard sound platform for PC-based
software.

Creative Technology Ltd. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in
Singapore. Creative Technology's U.S. subsidiaries include Creative Labs,
Inc., E-mu Systems, Inc., Digicom Systems, Inc. and ShareVision
Technology, Inc. Creative also has other subsidiaries in Australia, China,
Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The company's
stock is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol CREAF and on the Stock Exchange
of Singapore.

Creative Labs Inc
1901 McCarthy Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-428-6600,  fax 408-428-2394

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