FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 15, 1997

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
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      Open Sound System V3.8 for AIX 4.x (OSS/AIX) Announced!


LOS ANGELES: 4Front Technologies is announcing the availability of 
Open Sound System(TM) version 3.8 for IBM's AIX 4.x.

OSS/AIX provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards 
under AIX. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, Synthesizers 
and mixers found on sound cards. 

OSS/AIX provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of 
sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple! OSS/AIX 
supports over 150 brand name sound cards as well as sound chipsets found 
in laptops and motherboards with integrated audio.

OSS/AIX drivers support automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play, 
as well as support for IBM's Ultimedia Services (UMS) and Java Audio.

4Front is also pleased to introduce its SoftOSS technology for AIX. 
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/AIX also supports the professional audio hardware like 
the Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 card which can be used with professional studio 
equipment as well as DAT players for recording and playing back multichannel 
audio.

OSS/AIX sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API spec.
AIX users can visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.4front-tech.com/
to download a "free" trial version of OSS/AIX or buy a fully licensed 
version of OSS/AIX for only $40.00. The licensed version of OSS/AIX 
comes with free technical support and free updates to the drivers.

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