ENSONIQ Supports ASIO Format For PARIS Hardware

ASIO Drivers Allow Integration Of PARIS Hardware With Popular MIDI/Audio Software Applications

January 28, 1999 -- ENSONIQ has announced support of Steinberg's ASIO driver format for PARIS® hardware. This is a milestone for the PARIS hard disk recording system in that it allows PARIS audio hardware to be used with any NUDI/audio recording software that currently supports the ASIO driver format.

ENSONIQ plans to offer ASIO drivers for PC and MAC platforms in the first quarter of 1999. ASIO drivers will be included in all shipping versions of PARIS systems, and will also be available to existing PARIS users as a free download from the ENSONIQ® web-site at: www.ensoniq.com.

"Supporting the ASIO driver format is significant in that it allows PARIS to integrate with digital audio sequencing applications from leading software manufacturers," states Salvatore Perla, PARIS product marketing manager. "This will allow PARIS to appeal to a wider range of potential customers, many of which already use MIDI software with ASIO support."

PARIS hardware as a front-end for multi-channel recording and playback
ASIO drivers allow the users of many popular MIDI sequencing/audio recording software packages (from companies like Steinberg, Emagic and many others) to use PARIS hardware as a front-end for multi-channel recording and playback of 16-bit or 24-bit digital audio. Users will be able to choose from three different PARIS interfaces, including the highly configurable PARIS Interface MEC (Modular Expansion Chassis), which offers optional 8 channel, 24-bit balanced input and output expansion modules.

Audio stream input/output architecture
ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output Architecture) was developed by Steinberg to overcome the "stereo only" record/playback limitations imposed by multimedia applications and computer operating system developers. ASIO allows recording and play back of high resolution, synchronized, multi-channel digital audio with very low latency.

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