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EMU Announces Development Agreement With Waveframe Inc. to Support APS

September 26, 1998 -- EMU-ENSONIQ has announced that Waveframe Inc. have signed a development agreement to support the EMU(R) Audio Production Studio sampling/hard disk recording PCI card. The development agreement covers Waveframe developing software for the PC that provides professional sampling features for Waveframe users employing the APS as its hardware core as well as EMU offering a package bundling Waveframe software with the APS to EMU customers. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

APS to serve as sampling engine in Waveframe products

The agreement involves incorporating the Audio Production Studio, a 64 channel digital audio PCI card into the Waveframe environment. The card will be used primarily for its RAM sampling capabilities as part of the Waveframe 408-Plus system as well as for the upcoming Waveframe 7.0 release.

"We here at EMU are very pleased and excited that Waveframe has chosen APS as the sampling engine to serve the needs of their very selective customer base. Waveframe certainly has a proud heritage in sampling, and for them to choose the APS card as their sampling platform moving forward sends a significant message to the market that EMU is the world leader in sampling technologies" comments Kevin Kent, Director of Sales for EMU Corporate Enterprises who forged the agreement.

"The original Waveframe sampler had constant sampling rate technology. Constant sample rate technology allows people to pitch shift a sound over several octaves while preserving the sonic integrity of the sample, keeping it free from aliasing artifacts and clock noise that limits the transposition of other samplers. EMU samplers are the only other samplers on the market that used constant sample rate technology, and the APS is the only card based sampling system on the market to use this technology. This will allow users who are used to the sonic performance of the original Waveframe to update their system to 64 voices while maintaining the pristine sonic quality with which they have become accustomed" comments Dave VanHoy, President of Advanced Systems Group which distributes Waveframe.

Professional Post Production Software bundle with APS

The agreement reached makes Waveframe a development partner for APS, which supports high quality sampling as well as multitrack hard disk recording and real time hardware based effects. Waveframe stated that they will create a stand alone version of their popular Event Processor (TM) cue sheet based sequencer program, used by post production sound effects editors around the world. The Event Processor software package is best known for its a spreadsheet-like user interface based on time code that makes spotting, placing, and altering sounds extremely fast. The software package will be sold with the APS PCI card specifically for post production sound effects editing market and will have 64 voice polyphony and the ability to address 32MB of RAM.

"We are also very pleased that EMU will be bundling the Event Processor for non-Waveframe applications - many of our clients in Hollywood have been asking for that type of product for several years" comments VanHoy.

"Audio technology just keeps getting better and better, and development partnerships like this just end up providing better and more affordable products for the end users" concludes Kent.

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