Aardvark to Bring Its Line of PC Multichannel Audio Cards to the BeOS

RELEASED January 28, 1999

For more information contact:

Aardvark
Erik Lovell, VP Marketing
tel: 734-665-8899
fax: 734-665-0694

Aardvark to Bring Its Line of PC Multichannel Audio Cards to the BeOS

Ann Arbor, MI - January 28, 1999. Aardvark is proud to announce that it is bringing its line of PC multichannel audio cards to the new Be Operating System by developing BeOS compatible drivers.

Aark 20/20 is 8 channels of analog I/O, 2 channels of S/PDIF I/O, Toslink optical I/O, MIDI I/O and an optional ADAT card to connect the PC with any ADAT device. This is aimed at the professional and project studio recording market. Aark TDIF is an audio card connecting digital mixers (such as Yamaha O2R, O3D, Tascam TM-D8000) and Tascam's stand alone digital multitrack recorders directly to the PC, with 8 channels of digital I/O.

"Aardvark audio card line is perfectly fit for a powerful multimedia oriented operating system like BeOS because we can take full advantage of the multichannel, real time capabilities that pro audio workstations demand." Erik Lovell, VP Marketing, Aardvark

"Aardvark offers exceptional price performance in audio cards. Their ultra low latencies will make audio and video software offerings on the BeOS shine." Timothy Self, VP Developer Relations, Be Incorporated

About Aardvark:
Aardvark Inc., founded in 1990 as a pro audio company specializing in low-jitter clocks which improve digital audio performance. The past few years have been spent on the hardware for multitrack digital audio workstations.
http://www.aardvark-pro.com

About Be

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance.

In July 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.