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Wednesday 16 June 1999 - The DMX , a high-end PCI audio soundcard utilising the Sensaura supported ESS Canyon3D DSP chip has now been made available to the world-wide retail market by Terratec Electronic GmbH, the well respected German based audio hardware manufacturer.

The DMX is the first ever retail soundcard to offer Sensaura MultiDrive , a true 3D multi-speaker technology, the result of nearly a decade of R&D into spatial audio by Sensaura Ltd.

Rob Holmes, sr. director of marketing at ESS Technology Inc, commented; "ESS has embraced Sensaura MultiDrive because it is the most advanced 3D positional audio in the market ..……… the MultiDrive technology coupled with Sensaura's acceptance of the DS3D API has made the ESS Canyon3D a winner for game players and developers."

Other Sensaura features available on the DMX include full support for Creative Labs open EAX standard and also Sensaura’s own dynamic MacroFX capability.

In line with all other Sensaura advancements, MacroFX is specifically engineered to extend the capabilities of the industry standard Microsoftâ DirectSound3D (DS3D) API.

"Sensaura technology made the Canyon3D accelerator the most obvious choice for TerraTec's SoundSystem DMX soundcard due to its high technical capabilities and wide ranging compatibility with industry standards. This offers full DS3D and EAX support as well as other innovative features such as MacroFX.", added Tim Norris, sales manager, Terratec.

Sensaura Ltd is committed to extending support for Microsoft’s DS3D API and Creative Labs EAX.

Sensaura Ltd

Sensaura Ltd is at the forefront of audio research both in the PC and the consumer electronics market, presently holding technology licensing agreements with vendors that supply nearly 80% of the PC audio chip market world-wide, including ESS Technology, Crystal Cirrus Logic and Yamaha Corporation. In addition to 3D Positional Audio, Sensaura have developed other technologies most notably, Virtual Surround Technology and Stereo Expander Technology. The Sensaura portfolio of intellectual property at present has 42 worldwide patent filings. Although now an independent organisation, Sensaura Technology retains strong links with Central Research Laboratories, EMI's former research centre, of which it was previously a business unit. Sensaura Ltd is a Scipher Company. Scipher Plc is based in the United Kingdom. More information on Scipher and its companies is available on at http://www.sensaura.co.uk

Terratec Electronic GmbH.

TerraTec Electronic is a dynamic company, with its headquarters located in Nettetal on the lower Rhine – near the cities of Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach, and in the immediate vicinity of the Dutch town of Venlo. It develops and sells sound cards and multimedia products. TerraTec has set standards on the sound card market with EWS technology. The company is also active in the fields of PC speech recognition, TV tuner cards and Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).

Editors Notes:

-Microsoft, DirectSound3D and DirectX are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation

-DMX is a trademark of Terratec Electronic GmbH

-EAX is a registered trademark of Creative Technologies Ltd

-Canyon3D is a trademark of ESS Technology, Inc.

-Sensaura, MultiDrive, MacroFX and the Sensaura logo are all trademarks of Scipher

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For further information about Sensaura Technology, please contact:

Farhaan Mirza, Marketing Communications Manager, Sensaura Ltd. Tel: +44 (0)181 848 6508 / Fax +44(0)181 848 6565, http://www.sensaura.co.uk