Kit Contains:
The Audio Master Suite 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 11, SpectraLayers Pro 2, CD Architect 5.2, iZotope Nectar Elements Vocal Plug-In, iZotope-powered Mastering and Repair Suite, Noise Reduction 2, and twenty-five tracks from the Sony Sound Series: Production Music catalog.
Note:
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.
MAGIX Sound Forge Pro 11 - Audio Waveform Editor (Educational, Download)
Sound Forge Pro 11 from MAGIX Entertainment is a one-stop software solution for creating and delivering master audio content for any purpose. Record audio quickly on a stable platform, address audio processing tasks with precision, and render master files with ease. New features include one-touch recording, metering for critical standards, repair and restoration tools, and round-trip interoperability with SpectraLayers Pro 2.
The software allows for recording up to thirty-two simultaneous channels of 64-bit/192 kHz audio and the latest edition aids in delivering broadcast ready, master quality finished products using built-in signal and effects processing tools. In the mastering suite, twelve iZotope DSP modules provide additional mastering chain processing tools for enhancing audio, along with repair and restoration plug-ins, and precise format conversion tools.
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
Modeless One-Touch Recording
- Completely redesigned recording workflow
- Select a loop and record multiple takes into it with customizable pre-roll and post-roll monitoring
- Set pre-roll and post-roll times right inside the floating record options window
- Store multiple recorded takes that can be reviewed in the undo/redo history window after recording is finished
- Easy punch-and-roll recording - simply drop a marker on a pick-up point, and then record with all the pre-roll needed to get ready for the perfect take
- Monitor unarmed channels while recording
- Real-time waveform drawing during record
- Stay armed for recording at all times
Seamless Interoperability with SpectraLayers Pro 2
- Transfer audio data between Sound Forge Pro 11 and SpectraLayers Pro 2 and work freely across two premiere waveform and spectral editing applications
- Open a large file in SoundForge Pro 11 and transfer selections of any size to SpectraLayers Pro 2 for fast, precise editing, and automatically bring the result back to the source file with sample-accurate precision
- Send multiple files to SpectraLayers Pro 2 for deep layering, remixing, and sound design work, and then return the finished products back to Sound Forge Pro 11 for further editing, processing, and finalizing
Input Bus Effects
- Create a vibe for the talent by sweetening their source signal with plug-in effects
Plug-In Chain Interface
- Floating Plug-in Chain window that provides a significantly refined workspace for conducting non-destructive signal and effects processing operations
- Dock the chain and enjoy direct access to every component of the processing environment
- Easily manage plug-in order, presets, interface controls, envelope automation and bypass controls, and retain unique plug-in configurations for every open data window
Broadcast Wave File Format Enhancements
- Supports BEXT BWF version 2.0, iXML, and includes autofill and verification options as well as automatic repair of BWF data
- Support added for BEXT BWF version 2.0, including loudness attributes
- Support added for iXML, allowing viewing and editing of additional metadata
- BWF TimeReference fields are now automatically updated when editing affects the start of audio data or when files are created by copying from BWF source files
- Coding History is now updated if sampleRate or bitDepth changes are saved
- Enhancements added for autofill, verification, and auto-fixing of BWF data
Waveform Overview Bar
- Makes file navigation easier than ever
- More than just a simple strip that displays the exact location, the feature also serves as an excellent locator and auditioning tool
- Double-click in the bar to center the cursor in a time range defined by the waveform display, or click-drag to audition looping segments with customizable pre-roll and loop duration times
Nectar Elements by iZotope
- Included plug-in makes vocal treatment a snap
- Whether recording or mixing, get great results quickly by loading one of the professionally designed style presets in genres like rock, pop, folk, soul, and voiceover and dialogue - from there, 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
- With ten powerful processors working behind the scenes, Nectar Elements offers simple, intelligent controls that allow for focusing on the sound
Enhanced Data Window Tab Functionality
- Data window tabs have new features for improved workflow
- Arrange tabs in the workspace and enjoy dynamic resizing as well as a convenient close button for every open data window
CALM-Targeted Metering
- New volume metering options available
- CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) compliant metering features help in following the new rules while maximizing the dynamic range potential of the audio
Event Mode Improvements
- Convert regions to events, lock event markers, region markers, and envelope points to events, and automatically ripple successive events forward in time while editing
Restore and Repair Tools
- Includes specialized tools that make it easy to carry out repair and restoration tasks on audio files
- iZotope powered plug-ins are configurable and easy-to-use in a wide variety of situations
General Features
Automatic Time-Based Recording
- Schedule recordings on a recurring basis, with a choice of start time, duration, and end time
Multichannel Audio Recording
- Record up to thirty-two channels of high resolution audio via discrete inputs
Editing and Workflow
- Comprehensive multichannel audio recording and editing environment that can be dialed in to serve as the ideal software interface for any task
- Record, edit, process, master, and organize audio assets with an array of options
Event Mode Improvements
- Open sound files and use the Event Tool to split waveforms into discrete sections that can be moved and manipulated anywhere on the timeline
- Events can be trimmed, slipped, faded/cross-faded, copied, and more
- Event-based editing is ideal for assembling takes and creating audio CD layouts
- Convert regions to events, lock event markers, region markers, and envelope points to events, and automatically ripple successive events forward in time while editing
Multichannel File Editing and Processing
- Open, edit, and save multichannel audio data from XDCAM, field recorders, and surround mixes, with sample accurate precision
ACID Loop Creation Tools
- Create custom loops for use in ACID software
- Use grid lines to visually divide audio selections into equal parts based on time signature
- Refine loops in the Loop Tuner, and then embed basic ACIDization metadata to get a head start on making perfect ACIDized loops and samples
Interface Customization
- User interface is fully customizable
- Waveform and envelope colors, markers, and default window heights can be customized to fit any workflow
Customizable Layouts
- Design editing environments to maximize productivity
- Create and save multiple interface layout configurations for single- and dual-monitor systems
- Easily recall a window layout for specific editing tasks including audio editing, CD layout, multichannel file editing, and more
Multitask Background Rendering
- Work on one file while Sound Forge Pro 11 software processes another in the background
Native DSP
- Comprehensive selection of native signal and effects processors
- Includes normalization, Wave Hammer compression and limiting, graphic and multiband dynamics, noise gating, graphic/paragraphic/parametric EQ, envelope generation, phasing, flanging and chorus, reverb, tremolo and vibrato, distortion, pitch modifiers, Acoustic Mirror convolution reverb, Gapper/Snipper effects processor, and more
Integrated Disc-at-Once CD Burning
- Fully integrated DAO CD mastering
- Generate Red Book compliant masters for duplication
- Perform PQ code editing, add CD text and metadata, and prepare high resolution audio tracks with iZotope re-sampling technology
- Supports the Gracenote MusicID Media Recognition Service
- Extract or submit information including track, title, artist and more
Channel Converter for Multichannel Files
- Channel Converter tool supports multichannel formats for easy down mixing of multichannel files to stereo or mono
VST Support
- Supports VST plug-ins and plug-in parameter automation
Noise Reduction
- Advanced audio restoration and repair options
- Noise Reduction 2 collection of plug-ins includes Noise Reduction, Audio Restoration, Click and Crackle Removal, and Clipped Peak Restoration
Zplane élastique Timestretch
- 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 well-known pitfalls that can occur when pitching up or down
- Choose from various stretching methods that are tailored to the source audio, and adjust settings while previewing
Phase Scope and Mono-Compatibility Metering
- Use the Phase Scope to find phase cancellation among the channels in an audio file
- Meter types include Lissajous - XY plot, Lissajous - rotated, Polar - linear plot, Polar - circular plot
- Mono compatibility meter helps detect correlations or differences between the channels of a file that can cause phase cancellation when down-mixing to mono
Multichannel-Capable Spectrum Analysis
- View frequencies and overtones of different channels within an audio file
- Shows multiple graphs depending on how many channels are selected
- Observe fundamental frequencies and overtones in your recordings
- Monitor audio and effects changes, take multiple snapshots, and overlay views to compare and match frequencies
- Toolbar buttons include choices for FFT size and normal or sonogram view
Application Scripting
- Use scripting to automate common tasks and create customized features.
- Application scripting tools include the Script Editor window and toolbar
- Includes scripts for commonly used tasks
- C#, JScript, and VBScript scripting languages supported
Batch Conversion
- Apply the same effects and processes to multiple files, saving hours of editing time
- Convert digital audio files into different formats including MP3, FLAC, AIF, and more
- Simply add a group of files to the Batch Conversion interface, select an effect or process, and run the script
- Save and recall most frequently used batch scripts
Clipped Peak Detection and Marking
- Automatically scans files and marks clipped peaks
- Scan results are reflected in the Regions List for immediate identification
Noise Generators
- White, pink, and brown noise generators available for audio testing, acoustic analysis, and taking measurements
- Useful as sound design tools
Acoustic Mirror Software Plug-In
- Apply real physical space and signal path environments to audio, including bridges, churches, concert halls, modern and classic microphones, and more
Audio-for-Video
- Supports multiple video formats including AVI, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
- Precisely synchronize audio and video frame by frame
- Includes MPEG-2 templates for writing HDV-compliant files at both 720p and 1080i resolutions, and AVI templates using the CineForm CFHD codec for 720p and 1080i intermediate renders
- Includes templates for encoding WMV 720p and 1080p
Dolby Digital AC-3 Export
- Export multichannel files in surround AC-3 format using the included Dolby Digital AC-3 plug-in
Interactive Tutorials
- Tutorials provide walkthrough demonstrations including DAO CD burning, vinyl recording and restoration and more
Free Sound Effects from Blastwave FX
- Two-hundred sound effects from the producers of the Detroit Chop Shop line of Sony Sound Series: Sound Effects library titles
iZotope DSP
Mastering
Mastering EQ
Mastering Reverb
Mastering Compressor
Mastering Limiter
Mastering Imager
Harmonic Exciter
- 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
Mastering 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 Compressor
- Multiband Compressor is an essential tool for adding warmth and fullness to mixes
- Provides independent control over the dynamics of four frequency bands, and adjustable crossover points for fine tuning the range of each band
Mastering Limiter
- Create louder and fuller masters by limiting the dynamic range and boosting the perceived overall level of the mix
- IR (Intelligent Release Control) allows for dialing in aggressive yet transparent limiting
Mastering Imager
- Precisely adjust the stereo width and focus of masters using multiband stereo imaging
- 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 cancellation problems
Harmonic Exciter
- Tool for adding analog character to your masters
- With a selection of modes, it's easy to add tube or tape saturation, accentuate even harmonics, and add punch and sparkle to a project
Post-Processing
iZotope 64-bit SRC (Sample Rate Conversion)
iZotope MBIT+ dither (Bit-Depth Conversion)
- Necessary process when converting material from one sample rate (such as studio-quality 192 kHz) to another (such as CD quality 44.1 kHz)
- Low-pass filter quality is a critical component of any sample rate conversion process
- Protects against the loss of data, aliasing, noise, and unwanted ringing artifacts that appear in other implementations, and utilizes a hybrid low-pass filter along with ringing control
iZotope MBIT+ dither (Bit-Depth Conversion)
- Dither addresses quantization noise and controls where it goes in the audio spectrum when reducing bit-depth
- 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 dither
Restore and Repair
Declicker
Denoiser
Declipper
- Identifies and removes clicks, pops and digital impulse noises
- Set the fader to the sensitivity level required, and then count the number of clicks that are identified and repaired over time as the audio file plays
Denoiser
- Easily perform noise-print based noise reduction
- Simply click the Learn button while playing a random sample of unwanted noise contained in the target file and the processor does the rest, by applying a customized noise reduction process across the entire selection
Declipper
- Plug-in 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
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
Sony CD Architect 5.2 - CD Mastering Software
CD Architect 5.2 software from Sony Media Software produces professional audio CDs to Red Book specification. Version 5.2 includes CD text reading and writing and updated drive support. Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge software as tracks, master audio by applying over twenty real-time DirectX effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning.
CD Architect software provides the precise audio CD mastering and burning tools. Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations. Produce complex cross fades and DJ-style mega mixes. Generate multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks, apply volume envelopes and event ASR envelopes - even create hidden tracks. CD Architect software supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.
General
- CD Text support
- Support for up to 32-bit, 192kHz source audio
- High-quality resampling and dithering with noise-shaping
- Single or multi-file play-listing
- Volume and ASR envelopes for any event
- Multiple levels of undo/redo
- Override validation errors option
- Mono-to-stereo conversion on the fly
- CD transport controls
- Direct file open into Sound Forge software
- Track creation from Sound Forge regions
- Trimmer window
- Media Explorer
- Ripple editing
- CD Image file rendering
- Automatic crossfades
- Greater than 1:1 time zoom
- Reading and extraction of PQ data along with audio tracks
- Complete control over tracks, marker placements, and indices
- Preview multiple tracks or ranges of audio before extraction from a supported CD device
- Stereo master volume fader and adjustable envelope controls for any region
- Media Pool Multiple file format support without conversion
- Auto save crash recovery
- Undo/redo history list
- Supports MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio and more
- Convert MP3s of your own music to WAV files on the fly, burn new audio CDs and listen to them anywhere
Mastering
- Over 20 real-time DirectX plug-ins
- Event and master bus effects model
- Audio layering to create complex crossfades
- Event Normalization
- Real time pitch shift/time stretch
- Slip trimming
- Audio phase invert
- Audio scrubbing
- Unlimited volume envelope points
CD Design
- Full PQ code editing support, including track and index positions and pause times
- Absolute times for replication
- Print cue sheets and format CD liner notes
- Up to 99 tracks
- Up to 99 sub-indices per track
- Smart track reordering
- Automatic pause time indication
- Relative times for liner notes
- Timeline event locking
- Adjustable pause times
- Audio CD player unmute fade emulation
CD Writing
- Burns disc-at-once premaster CDs for professional replication
- USB, FireWire, SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drive support
- Overburn support of 80 minute and other size CD-Rs
- Buffer underrun protection
- Test burn mode
- PQ list verification for Red Book compatibility prior to burn
- Burn speed selection
- Copy-inhibit flags
- Pre-emphasis flags
- Audio clipping detection
- International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC)
- Universal Product Codes (UPC)
- Media Catalog Numbers (MCN)
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