4FRONT TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES OSS/3D 5.5.1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --------------------- Culver City, CA - January 9, 2002 - 4Front Technologies, a leading developer of digital and analog audio solutions for the Linux and UNIX Operating System platforms, announced today the release of OSS/3D v5.5.1 plugin for X Multimedia System (XMMS) on Linux and Winamp. OSS/3D comprises of a set of proprietary 3D audio algorithms that provide audio spatialization, depth perception, bass boost, fidelity enhancement and speaker /headphone correction. OSS/3D works with standard 2-speaker based soundcards. The new features include loading and storing presets of all the controls for OSS/3D. There is now a new "brainwave relaxer" module. The brainwave relaxer is based on psycho-acoustical models of how the brain perceives and interacts with sound. It's aim is to provide relaxation and meditation. 4Front Technologies is also announcing the availability of the OSS/3D system as a library that can be linked with any audio application. Typical applications that could benefit from OSS/3D are MP3 players/encoders, Games, DVD/Video players and audio editors. OSS/3D technologies is also available to PDA and audio appliance manufacturers who wish to provide more feature rich audio products and provide a product differentiation in a market that is mostly saturated with standard stereo audio output. Contact 4Front Technologies for support for specific processor chips and embedded systems. Tim Joslin, a user of OSS/3D on Windows, had this to say: "I just thought I'd write to thank you for this extraordinary dsp plugin. I was using Power Technology's DFX and thought it was super, until I tried your plugin. It nearly blew me off my chair! Now I'm nearly in acoustic nirvana." More information on the OSS/3D is available at http://www.oss3d.com and the Plugin for XMMS can be purchased online at an introductory price of $10.00. A free trial demo version can be also downloaded from this site. About 4Front Technologies ------------------------- 4Front Technologies is a privately held company with development facilities in California, Finland and Sweden. 4Front's main focus is on developing audio solutions for the UNIX and embedded Systems marketplace. 4Front's Open Sound System has become the "de-facto" audio API for UNIX and is distributed with Linux and FreeBSD kernel sources under the GNU Public License (GPL). Open Sound System has been licensed by companies like SCO, Hewlett Packard, Wind River Systems and endorsed by SUN Microsystems. The commercial version of Open Sound System sold by 4Front Technologies is also bundled in Linux distributions from Corel, Caldera, SuSE and MIZI, Holon Software and MandrakeSoft. Additional Information on Open Sound System is available at http://www.opensound.com The X Multimedia System (XMMS) project is developed under the GNU Public License (GPL) by 4Front Technologies. XMMS is a cross platform multimedia player that supports MP3, Wave, MPEG1 Video, VideoCD, Amiga MOD, MIDI, and other digital audio and video formats. It also provides MP3 streaming playback support over the Internet and provides visual graphics synchronized to sound output. It also provides complete control over GUI layout and design. XMMS has received many prestigious awards as the most popular media application on Linux from Linux Journal, Linux Magazine and SlashDot.Org. More information on XMMS is available at http://www.xmms.org Notices: -------- OSS/3D is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. All copyrights mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2001, 4Front Technologies.