Musikmesse 2009 update: Peter Gabriel Voice Extraction

This demo showcases sonicWorx Pro – a Mac app that can split audio signals into their components, allowing you to view and edit audio based on the actual sounds present within the mix.

sonicWORX Pro allows displaying, extracting and suppressing individual instruments and voice in a mix in a semi-automatic manner using a powerful pattern detector. Prosoniq’s  pattern tracker automatically detects, tracks and resolves conflicts with other instruments based on hints given by the user.

sonicWORX Pro will be shipping in July 2009 at a recommended retail price of 1.690 Euro ($1.849 USD). It’s a steep price – but I expect competion in the audio editing area to drive the cost of this technology down fairly quickly.

Give this a look and let me know what you think. Is this the most powerful remixing tool ever?

via audioporncentral

Existing Windows products will continued to be sold until that date, and updates will be available until the end of 2009. Users who wish to crossgrade from the latest version of their Windows product to the Mac counterpart can do so for free by contacting Prosoniq via its contact form.

The company says that it can’t make money on Windows because of widespread piracy.

Do you think this is a sign of larger problems with Windows as a music platform? And do you remember when people were going to write off the Mac as music platform?

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Bernhard Bouché, CEO at Prosoniq says that the Windows platform, though having a larger market share, has become increasingly unattractive due to the widespread availability of pirated Prosoniq products. “We were, and still are, using a serial number based authorization. We believe that moving from this relatively easy and painless method to a more complicated and error prone way of protecting our products is counter productive for our users. Our past experience with dongled products shows that implementing a dongle based copy protection is prohibitively expensive for affordable add-on products like our plug-ins, and makes selling over the internet problematic”, says Bouché.

Since Windows product sales in 2008 have been virtually nonexistent Prosoniq has eventually decided to put the focus once again back exclusively on developing Mac products, which have been selling extremely well.

“Even though we are aware of the danger of being dependent on a single company we are primarily a Mac based company”, Bouché says. “Being a small company developing highly specialized products we don’t aim for the mass market”, he adds. “Our experience shows that 90% of our customers are on the Mac anyway. We believe that by tending to products on one platform only we will be able to make better products and provide better support. Since crossgrading to the Mac is free we hope to encourage our Windows users to consider using them on a Mac when they are ready”. He also says that Prosoniq will reconsider developing for Windows when he sees a potential for more sales and less piracy, or when targeting other markets.

Windows product development had been one requirement for Prosoniq’s relationship with their former distributor, Steinberg. Prosoniq and Steinberg parted in 2001 but are still successfully working together as technology licensing partners. All Prosoniq key technologies, such as MPEX, will continue to be available for licensing on both Windows and Mac.

It adds a fully programmable virtual analog synthesizer filter with resonance, envelope follower and an integrated post-filter digital delay to your audio production environment.

This product at a glimpse:

• Platforms: MacOS X
• Formats: AudioUnit Latest version: 1.0.1
• Free

You can send any of your audio tracks through this ‘virtual analog’ effects device to either create spezial effects or to simulate the behaviour of an analog 4-pole synthesizer filter.

New in 1.01:

Clicking on the “Dly Time” text area directly above the delay time slider will set the delay time to the click interval. This is a handy way to adjust the tempo of the delay without figuring out the millisecond value

Specifications:

• 24dB/Octave (4 pole)
• variable Cutoff + Resonance
• Lowpass/Bandpass switchable
• Envelope Follower with adjustable sensitivity
• Envelope attack/release times
• Adjustable analog distortion
• Adjustable digital delay after filter with time, mix and feedback

Minimum system requirements:

MacOS X 10.4.11 or newer. AU compatible host software. Tested with:

• Apple Logic 8.02
• MotU Digital Performer 6.02
• Ableton Live 7.07
• RogueAmoeba AudioHijack Pro 2.9.0
• Apple AU Lab 2.0.1
• TwistedWave 1.0.0
• Apple GarageBand 4.1.2

The new version offers 8 sound modes, 32 voices and over 60 presets.

Features:

• Realtime Vocoder effect usable as either a Master or Track Effect, uses either any input source/audio track or the built in oscillator as carrier signal, and any audio track as modulator
• Integrated 32-voice virtual analog synthesizer with 2 oscillators per voice featuring 10 basic wavefoms and 7 sampled sounds, voice detune, pitch LFO, 4-pole Lowpass filter with cutoff and resonance, oscillator hard sync and ring modulator
• Graphic 10band EQ with analyzer
• 8 distinct sound modes
• HF Passthrough, Voiced/Unvoiced detection with noise generator
• Filterband freeze
• post-Vocoder Filterbank Reverb Effect with Mix, Decay and Density
• Fully MIDI controllable
• 8 different sound modes (OrangeVoc3, Classic Orange, Colorize, 3x Multi-Resolution, 2x analog simulation)
• More than 60 presets
• “Randomize” functionality to create random patches
• Hall Reverb + “Phat” Mode
• Synth remote control for hosts that do not support Cocoa AudioUnit plug ins
• See this list for Cocoa AudioUnit compatible hosts