The Sound Blaster AWE32 was an ISA sound card released by Creative Technology in March 1994. It was a nearly full-length ISA sound card, measuring 14 inches (356 mm) in length.

The AWE32 included two distinct audio sections: the Creative digital audio section with their audio codec and optional CSP/ASP chip socket; and the E-mu MIDI synthesizer section. The synthesizer section consisted of the EMU8000 synthesizer and effects processor chip, 1 MiB EMU8011 sample ROM, and 512KB RAM. The RAM was expandable to 28MB. These chips comprised a powerful and flexible sample-based synthesis system, based on E-mu's high-end sampler systems such as the E-mu Emulator III and E-mu Proteus. The effects processor generated various effects (i.e. reverb and chorus) and environments on MIDI output, similar to the later EAX standard on Live! and newer cards. It could also add effects to the output from the Yamaha OPL-3's FM synthesis. The AWE32 was the first sampler to support E-Mu's SoundFont standard, which allowed users to build custom sound sets using their own samples, the samples included in ROM, or both. The card included software for building custom SoundFonts. All of Creative's subsequent cards, other than the Sound Blaster PCI64/128 series, support SoundFonts.