FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Sound System V3.8 for Linux (OSS/Linux) Announced! Los Angeles, Calif., May 15, 1997: 4Front Technologies is announcing the release of Open Sound System(TM) version 3.8 for Linux running on x86 PCs. OSS/Linux provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, Synthesizers and mixers found on sound cards. OSS/Linux provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple! OSS/Linux supports over 150 brand name sound cards as well as sound chipsets found in laptops and motherboards with integrated audio. OSS/Linux drivers support automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play, as well as support for Java Audio. 4Front is also pleased to introduce its SoftOSS technology for Linux. SoftOSS provides a software based wave-table engine that can render MIDI and MOD music files without requiring any special wave-table hardware. Any 16bit soundcard can now playback MIDI music via wave-table synthesis. SoftOSS provides real-time mixing of up to 32 audio channels. SoftOSS is ideally suited for game developers and audio/video conferencing. Information on SoftOSS can be found at http://www.4front-tech.com/softoss.html In addition to SoftOSS, 4Front is also introducing the Direct Music API which allows the Yamaha FM synthesizer found on most sound cards to be used in applications other than MIDI music. By giving direct access to the registers, users can apply the FM synthesizer applications such as acoustic modeling, signal and tone generation, sound effects and many more. Finally, OSS/Linux also supports the professional audio hardware like the Zefiro Acoustics ZA2, Sound Blaster AWE64/Gold and Turtle Beach Tahiti sound card which can be used with professional studio equipment as well as DAT players for recording and playing back multichannel audio. OSS/Linux sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API spec. Linux users can visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.4front-tech.com/ to download a "free" trial version of OSS/Linux or buy a fully licensed version of OSS/Linux for only $20.00. The licensed version of OSS/Linux comes with free technical support and free upgrades to the drivers. All existing OSS/Linux customers will be able to upgrade their v3.7 drivers to v3.8 without charge. --- xxx --- All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. Open Sound System is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. Copyright (C) 1996,1997 4Front Technologies, All Rights Reserved. Contact: Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies 11698 Montana Avenue, Suite 12 Los Angeles, CA 90049, U.S.A. Tel: (310) 820 7365 E-mail: info@4front-tech.com Fax: (310) 826 2465 Web: http://www.4front-tech.com _____________________________________________________________________________