3DsoundSurge Press Release: Midisoft MediaWorks `98 PC Media Playback Utility Ships With MX300

Midisoft MediaWorks `98 PC Media Playback Utility Ships With MX300

Midisoft MediaWorks `98 PC Media Playback Utility Ships With Diamond Multimedia's Monster Sound MX300 Audio Accelerator Diamond to include universal audio and video media player plus two other titles on latest high-performance sound card

ISSAQUAH, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998-- Midisoft Corporation (OTC BB:MIDI) today announced that Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:DIMD - news) will bundle three of its software titles with its new Monster Sound® MX300 audio accelerator which ships to North American customers this week, just in time for the busy holiday shopping season. This brings the total number of Diamond sound cards to five that bundle Midisoft audio, music, and Internet-related applications. The Monster Sound MX300 is the second audio accelerator from Diamond to include Midisoft's MediaWorks™ `98 which enables users to easily find, organize and playback most popular audio/video media files and audio CD's on their PC's. Diamond will also include Midisoft's Studio Recording Session® and Internet Sound Bar™ titles to round out the Monster Sound MX300 software bundle.

``The Monster Sound MX300 represents a price/performance breakthrough that brings exceptional 3D positional audio gaming and superior fidelity within the reach of all PC users,'' commented Ken Comstock, general manager of Diamond Multimedia's audio business unit. ``Midisoft's applications help us showcase the outstanding capabilities of the Monster Sound MX300.''

The Monster Sound MX300, which features Aureal Semiconductor's Vortex™ 2 processor and A3D 2.0 positional 3D audio technology, is aimed at PC gamers and entertainment enthusiasts who crave and make use of the latest advances in sound card design. The Monster Sound MX300 has a DLS-compatible 320-voice wavetable to reproduce studio-quality fidelity. It also supports Dolby® Digital (AC-3) for playback of DVD titles using a virtualized 5.1 speaker set-up that recreates a home theater audio experience through two or four speakers. For the most demanding users and applications, the Monster Sound MX300 can be enhanced to support up to six speakers as well digital (S/PDIF) input and output via Diamond's MX-LINK upgrade kit.

``Once again, Diamond has raised the bar for affordable, high-performance and high-quality PCI-based audio acceleration,'' said Brian Allodi, General Manager of Midisoft's Strategic Products group. ``We are very pleased to have been selected yet again to provide audio and music-related software for this exciting new product, and we're especially appreciative of Diamond's decision to include MediaWorks '98 on the Monster Sound MX300 as well as on the Sonic Impact™ S90 card which shipped in September.''

Midisoft Corporation is a premier developer of music and audio control software for Windows® PC's. Based in Issaquah, Washington, the Company develops award-winning consumer, business and OEM products that are sold at retail and licensed to hardware manufacturers. For further information on the Company, please visit the Midisoft web site at www.midisoft.com. For more information on OEM and corporate licensing opportunities for MediaWorks `98 and other products, contact Brian Allodi at 425/313-3429 or send e-mail to briana@midisoft.com.

All statements in this press release other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties, including the fact that there can be no assurance that the Company's capital requirements will not increase in the future, due to presently unanticipated and unforeseeable events, that there can be no assurances that the Company's operations will improve, and that revenues will increase. Reference is made to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 1997 and to the Company's other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of such risks and uncertainties and other factors that may have material effect on the Company's business.

Contact:

     Midisoft Corporation

     Brian B. Allodi, 425/313-3429

     briana@midisoft.com