Kit Contains:
The Audio Master Suite Mac from Sony is a software collection of digital signal processing tools intended for waveform and spectral editing applications. The programs are designed for smooth round-trip communication in mixing, mastering, vocal processing, repair and restoration, sound design, forensics and analysis situations.
The collection consists of Sound Forge Pro Mac 2, SpectraLayers Pro 2, Convrt Batch Processing Automation Tool, iZotope Nectar Elements Vocal Plug-In, iZotope-powered Mastering and Repair Suite, and twenty-five tracks from the Sony Sound Series: Production Music catalog.
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This package is an educational discount available to qualified students, faculty members, staff members, or accredited NPO institutions. Proof of current educational status is required.
Sony Sound Forge Pro Mac 2.5 - Digital Audio Editing Software (Educational, Boxed)
Sound Forge Pro Mac 2.5 from Sony is a digital audio editor that has been rebuilt for the Mac OS X environment and provides a contemporary application that's perfect for recording, editing, processing, and rendering broadcast-quality audio master files. The software features a streamlined user interface with configurable viewing panels that allow for toggling to any view of the project in seconds, from the entire workflow, or just a specific area, even on laptops.
Assigning hardware, metering input signals, arming tracks, and recording high-resolution, multi-channel audio is a simple and fluid process while bringing audio into a computer - up to thirty-two simultaneous channels at 24-bit/192 kHz resolution. In addition to native processes that include everything from EQ to dynamics, channel conversion and normalizing, the program includes specialized tools for carrying out repair and restoration tasks on audio files. Powered by iZotope, these plug-ins are configurable and easy to use.
New features in version 2.5 include full bidirectional file transfer with SpectraLayers Pro 2, several event-mode improvements and expanded metering, including CALM-targeted metering. FLAC file support is now available, along with a batch processing automation application. iZotope Nectar Elements provides extensive vocal treatment, and several other plug-in tools are also added.
Note:
This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students, faculty/staff, and accredited academic institutions only. Proof of current educational status is required.
What's New in Version 2.5
Interoperability with SpectraLayers Pro 2
- Transfer audio data between Sound Forge Pro Mac and SpectraLayers Pro 2.1
- Open a large file in Sound Forge Pro Mac and transfer selections of any size to SpectraLayers Pro 2.1 for fast, precise editing, and then bring the result back to the source file in Sound Forge Pro Mac
Event Mode Improvements
- Convert regions to events
- Lock event markers, region markers, and envelope points to events
- Automatically ripple successive events forward in time while editing
CALM-Targeted Metering
- New metering options available for competing in the "Loudness Wars"
- CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) compliant metering features facilitate following the rules while maximizing the dynamic range potential of the audio
FLAC file Format Support
- Generate files in this popular lossless format that features space-saving compression and comprehensive metadata-handling capabilities
Convert Batch Processing Automation Tool
- Freestanding utility for mass file-format conversions, plug-in signal and effects-processing treatments, and file metadata attachments including art
- Simply import files and create a script
- Handles repetitive chores in the background while you continue recording and editing audio in the Sound Forge Pro Mac workspace
Auto Trim/Crop Tool
- Automatically remove unnecessary silence in a sound file while fading the edges of program segments in and out with user-controlled fade lengths
Volume Plug-In
- Modify the volume of a selection using this convenient process dialog.
Customizable Toolbar
- Cluster and access frequently used functions in a single convenient location
iZotope Nectar Elements
- Vocal treatment
- Whether recording or mixing, get great results quickly by loading one of the style presets in genres like rock, pop, folk, soul, and voiceover and dialogue
- Easily customize the sound by adjusting dedicated controls like Presence, Drive and Grit
- Fix pitch problems, perform de-essing, or reduce room noise in recording using simple and intelligent controls
Disc-at-Once CD Burning
- Create tracks and burn a disc from a single file, or burn all open files to disc
- Burn gapless live sets and Red Book-compliant master discs
Wave Hammer Compressor/Limiter
- Sound Forge original plug-in now available on the Mac
- Sophisticated compression and volume maximization deliver master recordings with classic Sound Forge clarity and punch
Focused Editing
- Configurable viewing panels allow for toggling to any project view in seconds
- Easily navigate the entire interface and work quickly, even on laptops
User Interface
Editor Panels
- Two discrete audio-editor panels, each with its own overview bars, file tabs, and transport controls
- View the panels stacked or side-by-side, and drag tabbed files between them for editing
Regions
- Fast, sample-accurate access to numerous locations within audio files, and easy ways to define, label, edit, and export regions
- Drop and name markers, create regions from selections, subdivide regions, loop region playback, and fine-tune selections
- Access the Regions List tool for list-based auditioning and fine-tuning
Event-Based Editing
- Allows you to divide a sound file into any number of independent sections that can be arranged and rearranged on the timeline
- Manually or automatically create events, then move, split, copy and paste, fade, crossfade, and slip/trim event contents to achieve complex edits
- Engage legacy Sound Forge event-based editing for effortless sequencing of audio on the timeline
Pencil Mode
- Zoom in, enable Pencil Mode, and easily make microscopic waveform alterations
- Great for fixing digital glitches and other unwanted artifacts
Time Formats
- Perform sample-accurate audio file editing in a wide range of industry-standard time formats
Summary Information, File Properties, Statistics Tools
- Easily view, edit, and apply file metadata
- The Summary Information tool displays file metadata - select a field and enter the information of your choice
- The File Properties and Statistics tools display all the important attributes of your sound files and the selections within them
Processing Power
Normalize
- Accomplish standard peak-level normalization, or modify an audio file's dynamics directly using average RMS-level normalization - great for matching the apparent loudness of different recordings
Zplane élastique Timestretch
- Time-stretching engine that offers high quality, making stretching artifacts obsolete
- Based on state-of-the-art psychoacoustic models and signal-processing theory, the result is stable timing, inter-channel phase coherence, and sample-accurate stretching
- Achieve formant-preserving pitch shifting that avoids the pitfalls that can occur when pitching up or down
- Choose from various stretching methods that are tailored to your source audio, including Pro, Soloist, and Efficient modes
- Monitor and adjust settings while previewing
Synthesis
- Synthesis plug-in generates basic waveforms and noise
Channel Converter
- Change the number of channels in an audio file, reverse the channels of a stereo file or intermix the channels of a multi-channel file to create panning scenarios
iZotope 64-bit SRC (Sample Rate Conversion)
- Necessary process when converting material from one sampling rate (such as 192 kHz) to another rate (such as 44.1 kHz)
- Protects against the loss of data, aliasing, noise, and unwanted ringing artifacts, utilizing a hybrid low-pass filter along with ringing control
Fades
- Precise control over audio heads and tails with five different fade types
Other Processors
- Mute, reverse, volume, mix
- Mix clipboard contents into a sound file, applying custom crossfades and adjusting both source and destination volume levels along the way
iZotope MBIT+ Dither (Bit Depth Conversion)
- Dither 24-bit or higher audio tracks to 16-bit without losing quality or introducing undesirable quantization distortion
- Employs psychoacoustic methods to distribute the noise into less audible ranges, resulting in improved sound and smoother fades
- Specifically designed for musical program material - MBIT+ models use real music and not test tones, resulting in musical and sonically pleasing processing
Invert / Flip
- Reverse the phase of sound files
Restore and Repair
Declicker
- Identifies and removes clicks, pops and digital impulse noises.
- Set the fader to the sensitivity level you need, then count the number of clicks that are identified and repaired over time as your audio file plays
Denoiser
- Easily perform noiseprint-based noise reduction
- Click the Learn button while playing a random sample of unwanted noise contained in the target file and the processor does the rest, applying a customized noise-reduction process across the entire selection
Declipper
- Reconstructs peaks damaged by clipping at either the analog or digital stage
- Use the level histogram to pinpoint where the damage starts
- Set the Clipping Threshold to determine where peak re-synthesis will begin
Mastering Audio
Mastering EQ
- Six-band parametric equalizer featuring four bell filters, a high shelving filter, and a low shelving filter
- Incorporates digital precision and analog modeling, as well as real-time spectrum analysis for essential visual feedback while adjusting parameters
Multiband Compressor
- Adds warmth and fullness to mixes
- Allows independent control over the dynamics of four frequency bands, and adjustable crossover points let you fine-tune the range of each band
- Real-time spectrum analyzer shows each frequency band in its own color, in addition to the combined spectrum of all bands
Mastering Imager
- Precisely adjust the stereo width and focus of your master
- Work with up to four frequency bands for independent control over stereo width by frequency
- Visualize the stereo image with a phase/channel meter display that highlights imaging, phase and potential canceling problems
Mastering Reverb
- Reverb designed to add depth to dull mixes and smooth over acoustic imperfections
- Features two processing algorithms, plate and room, and a real-time spectrum analyzer
Mastering Limiter
- Create louder and fuller masters by limiting the dynamic range and boosting the perceived overall level of the mix
- IRC (Intelligent Release Control) lets you dial in both aggressive and transparent limiting, and a histogram meter helps you fine-tune the effect for the best results
Harmonic Exciter
- Add analog character to your masters
- With a selection of Harmonic Exciter modes, you can easily add tube or tape saturation, accentuate even harmonics, and add punch or sparkle to your project
- Multiband and mid/side modes give you a huge range of sonic possibilities
Sony SpectraLayers Pro 2- Audio Spectrum Editor
The SpectraLayers Pro 2- Audio Spectrum Editor from Sony is a software application for audio editing professionals. It features a significantly faster processing engine, seamless interoperability with Sound Forge Pro 11 and a host of advanced tools, methodologies and user interface improvements for added convenience, creative options and enhanced workflow. Extracting, layering and processing audio in the spectral realm is now even quicker and easier in SpectraLayers Pro 2. SpectraLayers Pro 2 is available for both Mac and PC.
Faster Processing Engine
The SpectraLayers Pro 2 features a significantly faster processing engine, seamless interoperability with Sound Forge Pro 11 and a host of advanced tools, methodologies and user interface improvements for added convenience, creative options and enhanced workflow
Area Tool
You can select and extract anything under your cursor. Program this tool to make tiny, sharp-edged selections with pinpoint accuracy or just use it like an aerosol spray can to execute giant spectral cuts that span octaves
Frequency Tool
You can trace, follow, select and extract continuous frequency bands in the spectrum. Program this tool to reach forward in time and intelligently seek out continuous streams of the target frequency
Harmonics Tool
You can train this tool on the fundamental frequency of any pitched sound and watch it automatically select that frequency as well as a user-defined number of its associated higher harmonics
Shape Tool
This tool focuses on solid spectral shapes located directly under your cursor. 5 user-configurable controls set all the thresholds and tolerances you need to make ideal selections in any spectral graph
Noise Tool
This tool delivers noiseprint-based noise reduction that features artistic noiseprints containing multiple frequency bands of any width
Spectral Casting / Spectral Molding
The Spectral Casting / Spectral Molding is a revolutionary, SpectraLayers Pro 2 exclusive feature. You can use the frequency spectrum of one layer as a mold or cast for carving an impression of its frequency signature directly into the spectrum of a second layer. The resulting third layer (the impression layer) can then be shaped using any process or even phase-inverted with the second layer, creating a wide-open space for the first layer, free from any problematic sonic interference or masking caused by the second layer. The creative possibilities are limitless. Spectral Casting / Spectral Molding can be a far more elegant approach than simple ducking and the enormous sound design capabilities of this feature are poised to take creative music and sound design to an unprecedented level
Layer-to-Layer Copy / Paste
It can quickly identify and extract target frequency ranges. Then you can use the full menu of SpectraLayers Pro 2 tools and resources for processing new layers in isolation
Interoperability with Sound Forge Pro 11
You can transfer audio data between SpectraLayers Pro 2 and Sound Forge Pro 11 and experience the thrill of working freely across the premiere waveform and spectral editing applications. Open a large file in Sound Forge Pro 11 and transfer selections of any size to SpectraLayers Pro 2 for fast, precise editing. Then bring the result back to the source file in Sound Forge Pro 11-automatically and with sample-accurate precision. You can send multiple files from Sound Forge Pro 11 to SpectraLayers Pro 2 for deep layering, re-mixing and sound design work and then return your finished products back to Sound Forge Pro 11 for further editing and finalization
Bandwidth-Limited Selections
It displays frequencies on the vertical axis, allowing you to make bandwidth-limited selections for audition and extraction to new layers via copy and paste
3D Displace Tool
You can explore audio data on a multi-dimensional spectral display that reveals time and frequency events in astonishing detail
Modify Tools
The clone, erase and amplify tools in SpectraLayers Pro 2 can be used to edit audio on any layer at any time. You can access these options at any stage in the editing process to assist with critical repair and restore operations, creative sound design work and fun experimentation. Tool behaviors can be modified in useful and interesting ways. You can use the controls located right above the spectral display to design your own tool tips
Clone Tool
You can select any point on the spectral graph and build it into a brush for creating copies of any size at any other point. This tool is perfect for interpolating and grafting audio material in both restorative and creative ways
Draw Tool
The frequencies and noises can be drawn directly into spectral display in SpectraLayers Pro 2
Time and Pitch Manipulation
The sound can be freely transposed in SpectraLayers Pro 2 by using the select, move and scale tools
Frequency Range Display Options
You can toggle your view to display audio frequency ranges plotted on your choice of logarithmic scales. The options include the popular mel scale, bark scale, ERB (Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth) and MIDI-logarithmic
Noise Reduction
You can eliminate unwanted noise in the same light after working with it in SpectraLayers Pro 2
iZotope Nectar Elements - Complete Vocal Suite
Nectar Elements from iZotope is a software plug-in that allows for enhancing and fixing vocal recordings. Based on its more feature rich sibling Nectar 2, the software suite nonetheless provides a comprehensive variety of tools for making easy and substantive vocal treatments. Professionally-designed style presets in genres like rock, pop, folk, soul, and voice over and dialogue are provided as starting points for easily customizing your vocal sound.
The software allows you to choose between a variety of classic and creative vocal styles. Quickly get the '60s Motown sound, the early '90s grunge rock sound, a radio-ready podcasting sound, a subtle jazz vocal or a modern pop sound, everything from delicate improvements to highly-produced robotic pitch effects. Additionally, corrective tools can help salvage an otherwise perfect take. For home recording, the singer/songwriters, or the podcaster the software provides a clear workflow for achieving consistent results.
Define Your Style
- Dozens of Styles that let you choose between a variety of classic and creative vocal styles
- Quickly get punchy vocals with the loudness you need for consistency across your track
- Help settle your vocals into your mix with delays and reverbs that add ambience and "smoothing"
- Liven up your vocal sound, from gentle warmth to aggressive grit, with Styles that add vintage tube and tape harmonics
- Thicken up your voice with doubling effects, adding up to four voices with varied pitch and panning
- Experiment with additional per-style controls, each designed to perfectly complement the genre and style of choice
Fix It
- Bring out the best in any vocal performance with the included corrective tools
- Enhance and sculpt the tone of your voice, or adapt any style to suit your needs with the built-in EQ
- Easily remove unwanted "ess" sounds and sibilance using just one intelligent slider
- Remove room tone and other unwanted noise quickly with the gate to get vocals crisp and broadcast-ready
- Automatic pitch correction for fixing out-of-tune notes so you can keep those "almost perfect" takes
Two Simple Steps
- Pick your genre and style from amongst dozens of built-in styles that set up the main view of the plug-in and the underlying vocal effects.
- Experience the power of ten vocal processors with just one click
- Each Style has unique producer-level controls that let you quickly adjust settings like presence, drive and grit directly in the main view
- Experiment to personalize your sound then move on to tackle the levels and space
- If needed clean up the vocal with the de-esser, breath control, gate, and pitch correction