
                               WHAT'S NEW

            Release 2.0 of the Audiotrix Pro Setup Disk contains:


  - WINDOWS 3.1 AND 3.11 ENHANCEMENTS

        - Enhanced OPL4 Windows Driver v1.3

              - Enhanced OPL4 Windows driver that provides greater
                General MIDI compatibility.

              - Tested and approved by "The Fat Man" George Sanger,
                composer of music from the "7th Guest", "Loom", "Wing
                Commander" and many other great PC games.  First audio
                board to receive "The Fat Seal".


        - New CrystalWare v2.0 Enhanced Windows Sound System Drivers

              - Business Audio Transport with Object Linking and
                Embedding (OLE) facilities.

                 - Brand new "Pocket" Wave recorder giving you the
                   possibility of recording WAV files in PCM, mLaw,
                   aLaw and ADPCM and at various sampling rates
                   varying from 8 KHz to 48 KHz.

                 - Sound objects can now be added to any OLE-compatible
                   Windows Application

                 - Enhanced Input Mixer now allows recording sounds
                   coming from the microphone, the OPL4, the line input
                   or the CD audio input.

              - Sound Blaster Pro compatibility in a DOS Session under
                Windows 3.1.

                Please read the SBPRO.TXT text file in \TRXPRO for
                information on how to use this feature.

              - Enhanced Full Duplex mode allowing simultaneous
                recording and playback at different sampling rates

              - Master Volume control added to the Output Mixer

              - Automatic Gain Control added to the Input Mixer


        - New MediaTriX Jukebox for Windows v1.5

              - Playback of hardware compressed 4:1 ADPCM Wave files

                The "Welcome to the world of Audiotrix Pro" Wave file is
                now being distributed in 44.1 KHz ADPCM stereo format.
                Quality is equivalent to the 16-bit 44.1 KHz stereo format.
                Please note, the ADPCM format is not supported by the
                Sound Impression Wave Player.

              - New 44 voice MIDI files !

                 - Now includes 44 voice MIDI compositions FIDLING.MID and
                   TECNOVOX.MID by Gerard Jones and EUROMAN.MID by Henri
                   Chalifour.  Combined Wavetable/FM compositions expand
                   General MIDI horizon into imaginative territory. Game
                   developers and amateur musicians take note ! Only the
                   Jukebox for Windows is able to play these 44 voice
                   compositions.


  - DOS ENHANCEMENTS

        - New MediaTriX Jukebox for DOS v1.50

              - Enhanced OPL4 DOS Driver

                 - Enhanced OPL4 DOS driver that provides greater
                   General MIDI compatibility.

                 - Tested and approved by "The Fat Man" George Sanger,
                   composer of music from the "7th Guest", "Loom", "Wing
                   Commander" and many other great PC games.  First audio
                   board to receive "The Fat Seal".

              - Playback of hardware compressed 4:1 ADPCM Wave files

                The "Welcome to the world of Audiotrix Pro" Wave file is
                now being distributed in 44.1 KHz ADPCM stereo format.
                Quality is equivalent to the 16-bit 44.1 KHz stereo format.

              - Playback of both type 0 and type 1 MIDI files

        - New version of the MPU-401 micro-controller software

              - Changes to the MPU-401 micro-code reflect the
                enhancements made to the Windows drivers

        - New version of PLAYMIDI

              - Uses the new OPL4 DOS Driver with Enhanced General MIDI
                compatibility

        - New version of PLAYWAVE

              - Can now play hardware compressed 4:1 ADPCM Wave files

        - New documentation for the SETMPU utility for use with external
          MIDI devices

              - Please read the SETMPU.TXT file in \TRXPRO\DOS for the
                additional instructions.  Use the TRIXVIEW utility as
                explained below.


  - OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

        - New IBM Business Audio Driver for OS/2 2.11 is available from the
          MediaTriX BBS at (819) 829-5101.

              - Up to 16-bit 44.1 KHz recording and playback

              - Can record from the microphone input and the line input

              - Virtual Device Driver included for DOS and WINOS2 sessions

              - Works with IBM ICSS for professional voice recognition
                applications

              - The Device Driver is on the v1.4 DDK

              - The Audiotrix Pro DOS software will work in a DOS Session
                and the Enhanced OPL4 Windows driver works very well
                under WinOS2.

        - Verified compatibility with NeXTStep/FIP Windows Sound System
          drivers

        - Windows NT for Intel and Windows NT for DEC Alpha Wave drivers
          are coming out of beta-testing and should be available shortly.

        - New drivers for Sierra On-line games with support for Windows
          Sound System and General MIDI combined output are available from
          the MediaTriX BBS at (819) 829-5101.

        - New high-quality MIDI cables are available

              - Home musician version

                 - 5 feet MIDI In, male jack
                 - 5 feet MIDI Out, male jack
                 - 1 foot joystick connector

              - Professional version

                 - 1 foot MIDI In, MIDI Out and MIDI Thru, female jacks

       - Audiotrix Pro daughterboards are now available

             - DSP/Effects Processor
             - Sample RAM <512 Kbytes>
             - Karaoke Processor
             - SCSI Interface (NCR 5380)
             - Phillips CD-ROM Interface
             - Multi CD-ROM (Mitsumi, Panasonic and Sony) Interface


Should you ever need to refer to information contained in this file, type
the command TRIXVIEW.EXE WHATSNEW.TXT from the C:\TRXPRO\ subdirectory.

Other .TXT files can also be viewed in a similar manner.  From the C:\TRXPRO
subdirectory, type TRIXVIEW [path]<filename>, for example:

        TRIXVIEW C:\TRXPRO\DOS\SETMPU.TXT

will allow you to view the contents of the SETMPU.TXT text file.

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