Our contact at Focusrite sends word about a massive project to remaster Genesis’ back catalog for surround sound. Nick Davis, right, spent nearly three years remastering the entire Genesis back catalogue in 5.1. Davis started his career as a tape op back in 1983, recording early demos with Tears For Fears for Polygram. He moved… Read More Genesis Back Catalog Remastered in 5.1 Surround Sound
TC Electronic has announced that UnWrap, the world’s most widely used high-resolution mastering and up-conversion algorithm for music and post production, is now shipping. Originally developed for TC Electronic’s flagship System 6000 high definition processor, UnWrap facilitates smooth and fast stereo to 5.1 up-conversions when there is no time to do a conventional 5.1 mix… Read More TC Electronic Announces UnWrap High-Resolution Mastering and Up-Conversion Processor
NAMM: Denon Professional announced the new DN-A7100 A/V Surround Preamplifier. Designed specifically for surround sound decoding in installed sound, house of worship, broadcast, conference and studio monitoring applications, the DN-A7100 provides a flexible array of features suited for fully balanced 5.1 and 7.1 surround playback. This dedicated professional quality surround preamp was developed based on… Read More Denon Professional Intros DN-A7100 A/V Surround Preamplifier
NAMM: beyerdynamic introduced the Headzone, a portable surround mixing system. Using DSP technology, Headzone provides headphone-based 5.1 surround sound reproduction and is ideal for a variety of applications including studio, mobile recording and post-production. For use with Headzone, beyerdynamic has added “Headtracking” technology to its popular DT 800 PRO headphones. This ultrasonic-headtracking system locates the… Read More beyerdynamic Intros Headzone Portable Surround Mixing System
2006 Winter NAMM Show: Cycling ’74, a San Francisco-based music software company, demonstrated UpMix, a surround processing and upmixing software package for VST and RTAS formats on both MacOS and Windows platforms. The flagship plug-in, named UpMix, provides functionality that can speed the repurposing of stereo audio content into a surround environment. By providing a… Read More Cycling ’74 Intros Surround Processing and Up Mixing Technology
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Thomson have announced the addition of two new elements to the MP3 Surround demo software: MP3 SX (MP3 Stereo eXtended) allows enhancing MP3 stereo files for multi-channel playback and Ensonido provides portable MP3 Surround sound using stereo headphones. MP3 SX enables listening to two-channel content in surround… Read More Fraunhofer Expands MP3 Surround Sound Capabilities
Digidesign has announced that the new Surround Panner option for the ICON D-Control worksurface is now available. The Surround Panner brings powerful and convenient panning functionality to the center section of the D-Control console. Features: Integrated 640×480 high-resolution color LCD touchscreen Two touch-sensitive joysticks with associated Punch buttons Two touch-sensitive rotary encoders with 15-segment LED… Read More Digidesign Ships ICON D-Control Surround Panner
Native Instruments has announced that a demo version of Absynth 3 is now available. Absynth 3 is the latest reincarnation of what is one of today’s most creative and capable synthesizers. Absynth 3 is now fully surround-enabled, offering the most comprehensive and versatile multi-channel implementation of any available synthesizer. Powerful new oscillator functions and additional… Read More NI Releases Absynth 3 Demo
Symbolic Sound has announced that Kyma X.1is now shipping. Kyma X.1 delivers support for using a Wacom pen and tablet as a 3 dimensional control surface, 3 new kinds of oscillators, modules for turning presets into a 3 dimensional parameter subspace, plus other enhancements and improvements to the Kyma X sound design software. Using a… Read More New Kyma Lets You Design Sound in 3D
Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson and Agere Systems unveil free MP3 Surround evaluation download. Full versions of MP3 Surround encoder and decoder available from www.mp3surround-format.com. MP3, the world’s most popular audio compression format, goes multi-channel. Scientists and engineers from Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, who developed MP3 together with their colleagues from Thomson, the exclusive licensing… Read More MP3 Surround Sound
