Metric Halo Supports Digidesign's RTAS Plug-In
Standard
October 4, 1999
Metric Halo Laboratories, Inc. demonstrated Real Time Audiosuite
(RTAS) versions of its line of Pro Tools® plug-ins at the Digidesign Development
Partners stand and the Digidesign Pro Tools LE stand at the 107th AES Exhibition.
RTAS plug-ins allow Pro Tools LE users to harness the host-processing power of
their computers to do audio signal processing within Pro Tools.
Building upon is proven line of DSP based audio processing and metering tools
Metric Halo Labs has used its signal processing and coding talents to create native
processing algorithms that provide the comparable quality and efficiency to their
TDM/DSP based counterparts.
The new plug-ins are integrated into Metric Halo's existing software packages
and all new customers will automatically receive all supported plug-in standards
with their purchase (e.g. TDM/AS/RTAS/Standalone).
All RTAS versions of Metric Halo signal processing software use 64-bit floating
point calculations internally and provide the highest quality signal processing
available.
The following products have been enhanced to support RTAS:
ChannelStrip|SP
- This product is a low cost version of ChannelStrip targeted at project users
of Pro Tools. It provides the same high quality algorithms as ChannelStrip with
a reduced set of controls and processing blocks. It provides phase invert, gate,
compressor, and a 48-bit 4 band fully parametric EQ in a complete, extremely CPU
efficient signal processing package. The list price for ChannelStrip|SP is US$499.
ChannelStrip
- This product is the channel strip processing section of a full-blown, large-format
digital mixing console in a completely automatable, highly efficient signal processing
plug-in. ChannelStrip provides input gain, channel delay, phase invert, full gate
with a filtered sidechain, full compressor with a filtered sidechain, fully parametric
6-band 48-bit EQ with ±24dB of gain per band, output gain and advanced
metering. All this functionality is provided in a signal processing package that
is up to 4 times more CPU efficient than the competition while still providing
world-class sound quality. The list price for ChannelStrip is US$999.
SpectraFoo
- SpectraFoo is the final word in metering. Available in two product levels (SpectraFoo
- US$500; and SpectraFoo Complete US$1000), SpectraFoo provides laboratory precision
audio metering tools in a package that is so fast and so easy to use that you
can literally see the music. In use all over the world in applications ranging
from studio production to concert sound system tuning to forensic audio, SpectraFoo
is the seceret weapon of top professionals in the field. SpectraFoo provides the
functionality of systems costing 80 times as much (that's right - eighty times)
allowing even the most modest project studios to profit from the information it
provides. From tuning the control room to equalizing tracks to guiding mic placement
and mastering the final project, SpectraFoo makes every piece of gear in the studio
more valuable and every minute the engineer spends more effective and more efficient.
It costs more to not own SpectraFoo than it does to buy it.
The RTAS implementations of these products are available immediately.
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