MAAS - is a project which should enforce accellerated audio processing on a computermusic workstation. It is software and can be assistet by hardware which is also developed for this means and is:

Experimental modular audio system for workstations with PCI bus in the form of a signal processor card (MAAS-DSP-BOARD) with hardware modules and a modular administrative and control software for the integration of the I/O of modules and substantial operations of the computer music from the analysis to synthesis.

As software as an audio server should be created, which handles the hardware modules and software modules as interface for paralell running audio-applications and offers realtime programs the appropriate performance requirements. Also standard audio hardware should to be served.

In terms of hardware a ``DSP Audiocard'' and I/O modules for this should is made. The DSP card should be able to take over also functions of the audioprocessing of the host. For the I/O modules a especially designed serial bus is used, to which different hardware modules, as AD/DA transducers or other experimental I/Os can be put, depending upon requests. The Harwaremodules can be mounted in an external case (e.g. 19'') or in the computer in the 3'1/2'' disk slots.