Editorial Contact: Marc Lindahl

Sonorus, Inc.

212-253-7700

Sonorus and 4Front Support Open Sound System for Linux

New York, NY - Sonorus, Inc., makers of the award winning STUDI/O PC - ADAT

interface, and 4Front Technologies, the leaders in development of digital

audio solutions for the UNIX and Linux operating systems, have announced

support for the STUDI/O card in 4Front's Open Sound System for Linux. OSS has

been recognized as the de-facto audio architecture for UNIX and UNIX-like

operating systems. Linux ships with OSS/Free, a GPL'ed version of the OSS

sound drivers.

The STUDI/O - OSS combination brings STUDI/O's versatility and 24-bit quality

to the UNIX and Linux world. UNIX/Linux users can now perform a variety of

tasks, including streaming digital audio (Real Audio, MP3 Audio, etc.)

directly from studio equipment to the Internet using live encoding

capabilities; professional audio editing using direct-to-disk, full duplex,

multi-track editing applications such as SLAB, SND, and MultiTrack;

transferring data to/from DAT tapes, 8 channel Alesis ADAT-compatible devices,

or any devices having optical S/PDIF connectors; achieving very high quality

playback and recording.

STUDI/O allows recording engineers and home studio owners to input/output 16

channels of digital audio in parallel from the PC to a pair of Alesis ADATs

using standard fiber-optic cables. STUDI/O includes two 8-channel Alesis ADAT

optical interfaces and an 18-bit stereo analog monitor output. For mastering

applications, one or both ADAT interfaces can be software-configured for

optical SPDIF input and/or output, including sample rate conversion, for

connection to DAT machines or high-performance converters. With the addition

of Word Clock in & out, ADAT timecode input and MIDI timecode input via

Sonorus' Sync Backplate, STUDI/O can be synchronized within a professional

digital studio environment to a master clock generator. STUDI/O can then also

be utilized as the master clock generator via Word Clock out, sending its high

quality clock to the Alesis BRC or other devices. With ADAT timecode input and

the supplied tray application, any Windows audio application can perform

sample accurate playback and recording. Additionally, frame-accurate punch-ins

for programs that synch to MIDI timecode are now possible via the MIDI driver.

4Front's Open Sound System has been licensed by SCO, and is endorsed by major

UNIX developers including Sun Microsystems, BSD, Inc., Corel Computer,

WindRiver Systems and Lynx RealTime. Free UNIX operating systems including

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD also contain OSS-compatible sound drivers.

4Front's digital audio customers range from major universities including

Stanford (CCRMA), MIT (Media Lab), Cornell, Oxford, Cambridge and others, to

major companies including IBM, SUN, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Sony,

Philips, Lucas Film THX, and Dolby.