FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Culver City, Calif., September 29, 1998: 4Front Technologies is announcing the availability of Open Sound System(TM) version 3.9.1 for Solaris 2.6 running on PCI bus based UltraSPARC(TM) workstations from Sun Microsystems and UltraAX(TM) workstation vendors. OSS provides sound card drivers for the Ensoniq AudioPCI and Creative Labs PCI64/PCI128 soundcards under Solaris. 4Front is also happy to announce support for RME Digi32 (known as SEK'D worldwide) professional audio sound cards. The RME Digi32 sound card is capable of handling 24bit audio samples sampled at 96KHz. and provides digital I/O capability. Here are the main features of the RME Digi32 Drivers: - Only 16 and 24/32 bit audio formats are supported. - Support for 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48khz, 64kHz, 88.2kHz and 96kHz. - Supports Optical, RCA, XLR, and internal inputs. - Supports S/PDIF, AES/EBU and TOSLINK outputs. OSS also features a Virtual Wavetable Synthesizer for playing MIDI music, a Virtual Mixer to play multiple audio applications at the same time, and comes with an easy to use GUI for installation and configuration. Additionally, OSS also provides some "devaudio" compatibility for legacy audio applications written to Sun's audio driver API. There is also support for Java audio. There are many professional grade applications for multitrack/direct-to-disk third party audio applications available for OSS which can be used for studio quality audio production on SPARC(TM) workstations. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API spec. which is available for Linux, BSD, AIX, Solaris x86, UnixWare, VxWorks, LynxRT and other POSIX based operating systems. Solaris 2.6 users can visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.opensound.com/ for more information on OSS and http://www.rme-audio.com/english for more information on RME's Digi32 (SEK'D OEM) professional audio cards. --- xxx --- All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. Open Sound System is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. Copyright (C) 1996-1998 4Front Technologies, All Rights Reserved. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International. Contact: Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F Culver City, CA 90232 Tel: (310) 202 8530 E-mail: info@opensound.com.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Web: http://www.opensound.com