Beatnik Audio Solutions Selected for SAGEM Mobile Phones; Beatnik Audio Engine Shipping in Latest Mass Market Wireless Devices.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Beatnik, Inc., the leading provider of structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, today announced that the Beatnik Audio Engine (BAE) has been licensed by Sagem Communication and is shipping in their latest audio-enabled mobile phones. The Beatnik Audio Engine enables Sagem Communication to provide high fidelity music synthesis and audio playback across their product range whilst supporting the key open standard file formats required in today's multimedia-rich devices. The flexible, pure software BAE enables the real time generation of high quality audio by any application on the phone, including polyphonic The ability to play back some number of musical notes simultaneously. For example, 16-voice polyphony means a total of 16 notes, or waveforms, can be played concurrently. and Hi-Fi ringtones, music players, multimedia messaging and interactive games. The BAE is fully integrated in the latest camera and slim phone models from SAGEM. "SAGEM's integration of the Beatnik Audio Engine with their latest mobile phones proves that there is a low-risk way to deliver cutting-edge audio in all types of multimedia and mass market handsets," said Jeremy Copp, Chief Sales Officer at Beatnik. "By working together Sagem Communication and Beatnik are blazing a trail in enabling personalisation, audio service and audio-enhanced applications across the full range of mobile phones." As a complete audio subsystem, the BAE incorporates a synthesiser Noun 1. synthesiser - an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods synthesist, synthesizer intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively 2. , mixer, sample rate converter, linear audio player and support for MIDI, SP-MIDI SP-MIDI Scalable Polyphony MIDI Specification , Mobile XMF XMF eXtensible Music Format (MIDI Manufacturer's Association) , Mobile DLS DLS abbr. Doctor of Library Science , RMF RMF Resource Measurement Facility RMF Rich Music Format RMF René Moawad Foundation (Hazmieh, Lebanon) RMF Rich Map Format (Worldcraft Half-Life mapping tool) RMF Relativistic Mean Field , WAV, MP3, aacPlus and AMR-WB AMR-WB Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband file formats. This gives users full control over all sounds produced by their mobile phone, allowing full audio personalisation. Beatnik has licensed its BAE technology to industry-leading wireless handset manufacturers and platform providers including Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung and Panasonic. About Beatnik, Inc. Beatnik licenses scalable, standards-based structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, which enable rich multimedia content delivery and an enhanced user experience for games and device interaction. Beatnik markets its core software technology and audio content development tools to mobile device manufacturers and a community of creative professionals. Incorporated in 1996, Beatnik was founded by musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson. www.beatnik.com Beatnik(R), Beatnik Audio Engine(TM), BAE(TM), mobileBAE(TM), and RMF(R) are trademarks of Beatnik, Inc. All rights reserved. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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