Beatnik, Inc., a provider of standards-based structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, and Metrowerks, a provider of wireless development tools and services, have formed partnership that will incorporate the Beatnik Audio Engine (BAE) as the standard audio engine in Metrowerks line of Codewarrior products for the Symbian operating system.

According to the companies, Metrowerks’ Codewarrior Development Tools for Symbian will integrate BAE technology that includes support for open standards, such as SP-MIDI and XMF file formats, enabling developers to create interactive audio applications such as games and multimedia messaging clients for a wide range of next generation mobile devices based on Symbian OS.

Beatnik said its miniBAE and mobileBAE products are specifically designed for resource-constrained environments such as mobile phones. The company claims they are highly efficient, small footprint, scaleable software engines supporting the real time synthesis of high quality polyphonic audio. Beatnik’s audio subsytems include a synthesizer, mixer, sample rate converter, linear audio API and support for MIDI, SPMIDI, XMF, RMF, MP3, WAV, AIFF and AU file formats.

Metrowerks said CodeWarrior Development Tools for Symbian, Professional Edition, is a development toolset designed specifically for the Symbian OS v7.0, and is being used by Symbian, its licensees, and their partners to create system software and applications for the next generation of Symbian OS phones.

The company said the toolset enables wireless developers to develop, build and debug C++ and PersonalJava operating system components and applications, all within the same Integrated Development Environment, for Symbian OS mobile phones. The CodeWarrior IDE allows developers to easily plug in device specific SDKs to support multiple Symbian OS configurations including phone designs from different Symbian OS licensees.