PRESS RELEASE
IK Releases Further Details on T-RackS VS Plug-In
April 05, 2004
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T-RackS VS is a new version of IK Multimedia's analog mastering software that will be able to run on the new VS8F-3 expansion board for Roland's VS hard-Disk recording systems, in addition to other 3rd party plug-ins.
T-RackS VS will be a suite of 2 plug-ins: DYNAMICS and EQUALIZER both physically modeled after rare vintage hardware devices.
The T-RackS VS DYNAMICS plug-in will offer a mastering tube compressor, a multi-band limiter and soft-clipping output stage, while the EQUALIZER will offer a 6-band stereo analog equalizer with the ability to process the two stereo channels independently. Both will be able to work with frequencies of 44Khz-48Khz and can be used as a suite of mastering or as independent plug-in for track compression and EQ.
The DYNAMIC plug-in will offer the following controls:
Compressor
- Comp Drive: sets the compressor drive from - 18 dB to + 18 dB
- Sidechain Filter: sets the cutoff frequency of the high pass filter that the T-RackS compressor uses to filter the keying signal from 30 Hz to 250 Hz, log scale.
- Attack: sets the average attack time for the compressor from 10 ms to 80 ms.
- Release: sets the average release time for the compressor from 30 ms to 1.4 s.
- Ratio: sets the ratio of the compressor (actually it sets the behavior of the algorithm in a way similar to adjusting "ratio" on a conventional compressor) from 1:1.5 to 1:5.
- Stereo Image: adjusts the width of the stereo image, ranges from -5.0 to +5.0 dB
- Comp Out: sets the "makeup" level for the compressor module from -18 dB to + 18 dB.
- An analog VU-Meter will indicate the amount of gain reduction
Limiter
- Limit Drive: sets the amount of signal that's fed to the Limiter module from -18 dB to + 18 dB
- Threshold: sets internal bands limiters thresholds, three knobs, one for each band. Ranges from -12 dB to +12 dB.
- Level: sets internal bands limiters output levels, three knobs, one for each band. Ranges from -18 dB to +18 dB.
- Crossover low: adjusts the frequency split points between low and mid bands from 30 Hz to 2 kHz.
- Crossover high: adjusts the frequency split points between mid and high bands from 1 kHz to 20 kHz.
- Release: adjusts the release time for the three bands together from 100 ms to approx 1.8 s.
- Overload: adjusts the processing balance between limiting and clipping from -5 dB to +5 dB.
- An analog VU-Meter will indicate the amount of gain reduction
Soft-clipping stage
- Clipping: Adjust the curve of the soft clipping. Ranges from -12 dB to 0 dB. -12 dB means very soft curve, 0 dB means totally hard clipping.
- Out: it adjust the INPUT of the clipper. Ranges from -15 dB to +15 dB.
In the DYNAMICS plug-in, the meter consists of three LED bars. L&R meters show the peak level at the output of the whole processor. The RMS meter shows the L&R channels average loudness.
The EQUALIZER plug-in will offer the following controls:
- High Pass Filter: from OFF to 5 Khz
- Low (F): Low shelving filter frequency from 30 to 800 Hz.
- LowMid (F): Low-mid peaking filter frequency from 30 Hz to 6 KHz.
- HighMid (F): High-mid peaking filter frequency from 200 Hz to 20 KHz
- High (F): High shelving filter frequency dial from 750 Hz to 10 KHz.
- Low Pass Filter: from 200 Hz to OFF.
- EQ Controls, bands gain: same for all 4 bands (Low, LowMid, HighMid, High). From –15.0 to +15.0 dB. Can be toggled to can be toggled between +/- 7.5 dB or +/- 15 dB.
- Push buttons enable / disable the single EQ bands.
- A scope-like display will show the frequency response resulting by the effect of all the bands.
Price and availability
The T-RackS VS mastering plug-in suite will be available by Q2 and will have a MSRP of $/Euro 299.
For more information, visit their web site at
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/.
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