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The Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a consortium
of just over 30 mobile industry leaders, was created to overcome
barriers in creating truly innovative mobile devices, applications
and services by offering a completely open and free mobile platform,
Android, to the industry-at-large. The sole MIDI audio solution
in the OHA and Android Platform, SONiVOX audioINSIDE is an advanced,
device-hardened audio synthesis solution with high quality MIDI
audio capabilities used primarily to create interactive mobile
gaming applications.
SONiVOX will continue to support
the Android platform through the OHA as well as provide custom
integration, feature enhancement and wavetable design services
to SONiVOX clients.
SONiVOX' audioINSIDE will provide the following capabilities
to Android enabled handsets:
Interactive Music Playback
in Games via JET
One component of the SONiVOX
audioINSIDE solution is JET , an interactive music engine for
mobile devices. With JET, developers can create compelling Java
based mobile games with synchronized music, graphics and game
play, getting around today's vexing industry problems of poor
JSR support and porting to multiple handsets.
With JET, mobile application
and game developers can deploy:
* Rhythm Matching Games
* Music Driven Games
* Real-time Mobile Musical Instruments
* Music Remixers
* Adaptive Music Scores
* Algorithmic song generation
* Synchronized music and sound effects
with graphic events and gameplay
* Significant MIDI song compression --
hours of music in just a few Kbytes
* and more
Playback of MIDI Ringtones,
Game Soundtracks & Audio Effects
The SONiVOX audioINSIDE solution
includes a full featured wavetable MIDI synthesizer and matched
General MIDI soundsets for high quality music playback of ringtones,
game soundtracks and effects, all without the need for intensive
memory or MIPS which pcm-based audio solutions require.
Geared toward the needs of game
developers, the solution offers a highly efficient MIDI Synthesizer
accessible through the Android Java interface. It includes such
features as:
* Highly efficient synth engine allows
more MIPS for graphics
* Support for custom instruments via Mobile
XMF and Mobile DLS
* Support for custom GM wavetable sets
* Seemless integration with the SONiVOX
JET interactive audio engine |