YIFF is a high performance, stable, and fully documented sound server for UNIX games and applications.

It employs a network transparent API which allows multiple client programs to access sound capabilities in a similar way to how X clients do graphics.

The Y Sound System employs a few additional terms to generalize additional conceptual properties about using your sound card. These conceptual properties will help make it easier to work with sound using the Y system at a higher level.

· Recorder addresses the entire audio device or sound card unit.
· Audio is a set of adjustable parameters for a recorder.
· Sound the segment of data representing sound currently being played or recorded.
· Cycle is the interval in which the Sound is updated to the recorder.