Seer Systems to Support BeOS

Seer Systems, Inc. the developer of music software for Pentium® PCs has announced its support of the Be Operating System (BeOS). Seer System products, such as Reality and SurReal allow computers to become fully operation professional quality music synthesizers.

"We look forward to much higher levels of performance with BeOS," announced David Roach, Vice President of Operations for Seer Systems. "We have wanted to do this for quite a while, to give support for multimedia, content developers, graphics artists and other high level production professionals. BeOS offers us a wonderful addition to our Pentium-based users. This greatly increases our potential market and gives these high end users another tool for their projects."

Using the five most popular synthesis methods, Reality and Surreal allow computers to play 64 or more simultaneous notes of up to 16 different sounds and instruments with very low latency. This aids computer usage for music performance and composition, scoring, sound effects, game sound development, sound design and many more applications. In addition, SeerMusic lets users put streaming multichannel audio on the Internet with faster download times and significantly less compression. In addition to BeOS support, Reality, Surreal and Seer Music currently work with Pentium based PCs running Windows 95 or 98.

"I would compare Seer's software synthesis quality to any hardware synthesizer out there," said Timothy Self, Vice President of Developer Relations at Be, Inc."Seer products running on the BeOS will open up new possibilities in music, audio and media for creative content developers. They perfectly complement the other media authoring tools coming onto the Be platform."

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassee, 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 www.be.com. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.