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For more information, contact: Be, Inc. Sylvie Pelaprat sylvie@be.com +1 (650) 462-4113 CHEN PR Shelly Eckenroth or Mary Leddy +1 (650) 357-8749 In Europe: Marie-Françoise Lelong-Weinberg mflelong@beeurope.com +33-1-55-91-7736 Virtual DSP Announces Audio USB MIDI Interface Architecture for Be Operating System New York, June 22, 1999 - Virtual DSP Corporation (VDSP), an innovator in digital guitar and audio product development, announced today that it has developed a new professional audio USB MIDI interface architecture to be hosted on the digital media Be Operating System (BeOS®) for desktop computers and Internet appliances. The MIDI Oxygen 44™ is a 64 channel MIDI patchbay (4 IN x 4 OUT) and is performance optimized for the BeOS. Because BeOS offers vastly improved latencies over competitive operating systems, VDSP is able to offer 1-2 milliseconds total system latency for any MIDI IN to any MIDI OUT with the MIDI Oxygen system. Steve Dame, CEO and President of Virtual DSP Corporation noted, "We are very excited about this relationship with Be as a way to deliver professional grade MIDI and audio products that we believe will raise the bar in the industry for high performance music production on an average personal computer." "We are delighted to have Virtual DSP on Be's digital media operating system platform," said Jim Rippie, Be's audio evangelist. "For a 5-year old company, they are strong in engineering talent and market experience, and are going to bring superior USB-based MIDI hardware interfaces to BeOS customers. The marriage of cost-effective MIDI interfaces with the native media advantages of BeOS means benefits for users." # # # About VDSP VDSP was founded in 1994 to develop and manufacture DSP audio and music products. VDSP is the developer of the MidiOxygen™ technology which features leading edge Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology and MIDI processing software to create the smallest and most advanced real-time pitch-to-MIDI system for guitar developed to date. In early 1998, VDSP manufactured its own high end custom MidiAxe guitar that has been enthusiastically received as a new benchmark in guitar technology from legends such as Lee Ritenour and Pat Metheny. VDSP now markets the MidiAxe system to such leading guitar manufacturers as Parker Guitars (Melville, NY) and Brian Moore Custom Guitars (Brewster, NY). About Be® Be Incorporated, founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focused on delivering an operating system designed for digital media applications and Internet appliances. 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 for digital media applications on both personal computers and Internet appliances. Additional information on Be and BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Be and BeOS are registered trademarks of Be Incorporated. Other brand product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. All rights reserved.

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