"Creative, the company best known for its Sound Blaster line of sound cards that boosted the audio capabilities of '90s-era PCs, is reviving the brand with a new hub called the Re:Imagine. It's reminiscent of Elgato's Stream Deck controllers, but with a focus on your audio gear. It has a modular design allowing buttons, dials, sliders, and screens to be mixed, matched, and rearranged to your specific needs."
"The Re:Imagine features USB-C, mic, line, and optical in connections, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a dedicated USB port for connecting it to a computer, plus support for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth for wireless gear like headphones. There's also a built-in DAC and amp that Creative says can power larger studio-grade desktop speakers. You can route audio from one device to another using the hub's buttons or touchscreen, without having to juggle cables, but its usefulness goes beyond that."
"While connected to a PC, the hub's various buttons and controls can be customized to launch applications, trigger shortcuts such as muting a phone call or starting programmable macros, and even control Matter-enabled smart home devices. It runs Linux, and Creative says users have full root access to its hardware. Developers are encouraged to create their own apps or find alternate uses for the hub."
Creative revived the Sound Blaster brand with the Re:Imagine hub offering modular buttons, dials, sliders, and screens that can be rearranged. The device includes USB-C, mic, line, optical in, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a dedicated USB port, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth, a built-in DAC and amp capable of powering studio-grade desktop speakers, and routing controls via buttons or touchscreen. The hub runs Linux with root access and supports customizable PC macros, app launches, and Matter smart-home control. An octa-core processor, 8GB RAM, 16GB storage plus microSD expandability enable standalone apps, a DOS emulator, AI assistants, and an AI DJ. Kickstarter preorders start at $329.
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