FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


      Open Sound System v3.8 for Solaris 2.5.x (OSS/Solaris) Announced!


LOS ANGELES, CA, May 20, 1997: 4Front Technologies is announcing the 
availability of Open Sound System(TM) version 3.8 for SunSoft's Solaris 2.5 
and 2.5.1 for x86 PCs.

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

OSS/Solaris provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of 
sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple! OSS/Solaris 
supports over 150 brand name sound cards as well as sound chipsets found 
in laptops and motherboards with integrated audio. There is full support
for Creative Labs EMU8000 wavetable synthesizer found on Sound Blaster
AWE32 and AWE64 as well as support for Ensoniq's OTTO synthesizer found
on SoundScape VIVO cards.

OSS/Solaris drivers support automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play, 
as well as support for Java audio and Sun's "devaudio" API. Most "devaudio"
applications that don't use the streams ioctls will work.

4Front is also pleased to introduce its SoftOSS technology for Solaris. 
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/Solaris also supports the professional audio hardware like 
the SB AWE64/Gold (S/PDIF), Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 card and the 
Turtle Beach Tahiti cards which can be used with professional studio equipment 
as well as DAT players for recording and playing back multichannel audio.

OSS/Solaris sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API spec.
Solaris x86 users can visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.4front-tech.com/
to download a "free" trial version of OSS/Solaris or buy a fully licensed 
version of OSS/Solaris for only $40.00. The licensed version of OSS/Solaris 
comes with free technical support and free updates to the drivers.

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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
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