Seer
Systems Announces New Internet Music Delivery Solution
January
30, 1998
Seer Systems, developer of Reality(TM), the professional synthesizer software,
has announced a solution for delivering high quality, streaming music via the
Internet. This technology, dubbed SeerMusic(TM), made its debut at the National
Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention in Los Angeles. Current Internet
music delivery systems suffer from two major drawbacks. Those that offer streaming
capability (the ability to initiate playback while the file is still downloading)
have compromised audio quality due to the limited bandwidth of current dialup
technology. The less-than-stellar performance of many Internet Service Providers
often results in low data rates that can undermine even a relatively good connection.
Those solutions that offer better-sounding audio don't stream and require significantly
longer download times. Seer's proprietary technology allows SeerMusic to achieve
excellent sound quality while streaming, even with connection speeds below 28.8
kbps. "Listeners who are accustomed to the current crop of streaming music solutions
are literally startled when they hear SeerMusic; the difference is that drastic,"
said Fred Malouf, Product Manager for SeerMusic. "In addition, we are poised to
deliver a professional-quality authoring tool so that virtually anyone will be
able to make his or her music available on the Internet." Stanley Jungleib,
Seer Systems' CEO and SeerMusic inventor, says, "The scenario we offer gives any
musician total control over the quality and interactivity of the clients' audio
system. The prospect of a million new music broadcasters coming on line is nothing
short of revolutionary." The ability to author SeerMusic files will eventually
be incorporated into Reality, giving musicians an extremely powerful, unified
set of tools they can use to publish their music.
Seer Systems, Inc., located in Los Altos, California, is the world's leading developer
of software synthesizers. Seer developed the world's first General MIDI software
wavetable synthesizer for Intel Corp. in 1993. For
more information, visit their web site at www.seersystems.com. | 
