FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Sound System v3.9 Released. CULVER CITY, CA, June 1, 1998: 4Front Technologies is announcing the availability of Open Sound System(TM)(OSS) version 3.9 for: o Linux, o FreeBSD o BSD/OS o SCO Open Server Release5 o UnixWare 2.1 o UnixWare 7 o Solaris x86 2.5.1 o Solaris x86 2.6 o Solaris SPARC/PCI 2.6 o Lynx RealTime o VxWorks OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards for the above operating systems. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, Synthesizers and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. OSS supports over 200 brand name sound cards. OSS drivers provide automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards and support for full duplex audio. "v3.9 represents the culmination of over a year's worth of developement to add new soundcards, full duplex support for all soundcards, major bug fixes, support for PCI sound cards and the development of SoftOSS", said Mr. Hannu Savolainen, Vice President of Engineering. 4Front is also announcing new features and improvements in its SoftOSS(TM) technology. SoftOSS provides a software based wave-table engine called Virtual Synth 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. A new component of SoftOSS called Virtual Mixer also provides real-time mixing of up to 8 stereo audio channels. The Virtual Mixer will enable users to run various audio applications to output sound at the same time. It is particularly useful when one needs to hear audio output from browsers, window managers, streaming audio, and games simultaneously. 4Front Technologies is also pleased in announcing the formation of the Applications Group which will be responsible for developing audio applications with exciting graphics and features. OSS will now come bundled with a new OSSplayer capable of handing wav, au, MOD, MP3 and various other file formats. OSSplayer will have a feature rich GUI with real time spectrum analyzer and waveform display functions as well as playlists and a graphic equalizers. For more information and to download a free 7 day evaluation version, visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.opensound.com --- 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. Contact: Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F Culver City, CA 90232 USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 E-mail: info@opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0486 Web: http://www.opensound.com