Sonic Solutions Introduces Pro Mastering System For Internet Audio

21-Apr-00

Sonic Solutions introduces iMaster, the latest addition to the SonicStudio HD family of audio mastering systems. With iMaster, Sonic Studio HD will provide integrated Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) capabilities in addition to support for traditional CD mastering and DVD-Audio mastering for High Density Audio and surround sound. Based on Sonic's digital audio workstation SonicStudio HD, iMaster enables professional audio engineers to work at the audio quality for CD-Audio and DVD-Audio production and simultaneously compress the resulting master to achieve the results when delivering audio over the internet. ""We believe the Internet is becoming one of the most important distribution mediums for record companies and digital content providers,"" said Toni Fiedler, Managing Director and Co-Founder at SYRINX music & media, a DVD production house in Hamburg, a major center for digital media business in Europe. ""In addition to preparing content using traditional CD audio and our work in new formats such as DVD-Audio and audio for DVD-Video, we now look forward to preparing audio for Internet distribution. By adding multiple format functionality into our SonicStudio HD workstation, Sonic ensures that we will be a true multi-format production facility for clients who are planning to distribute in any secure fashion."" Sonic is the company to incorporate audio compression technology into the standard music mastering process, with the objective of providing quality audio for digital delivery. Utilizing a familiar workflow, the audio mastering community can integrate iMaster into their everyday workflow. ""Our goal has been to make SonicStudio HD a complete solution for preparing audio masters for a wide range of applications. SonicStudio HD already supports premastering for DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD, and CD audio,"" said Yuki Miyamoto, Product Marketing Manager for New Audio Formats at Sonic Solutions. ""With the addition of iMaster, SonicStudio HD users will now be ready to take advantage of the enormous opportunities for providing music on the Internet."" About Sonic iMasterEMD masters produced by Sonic iMaster are compatible with SMDI compliant DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems. iMaster not only lets users create a master from a new recording, but also allows them to load a CD, DDP and 1630 master automatically from archived content. iMaster compression uses the AutoSonic automation system to ensure maximum productivity. About AutoSonicAutoSonic is a suite of software tools that enable efficient batch processing of soundfiles either by distributed processors on a network or by a single SonicStudio HD workstation. AutoSonic consists of four applications: AudioClient, QueueManager, AutoSonic Server and Audio Worker. AutoSonic provides batch DSP processing of soundfiles and is currently available with sample rate conversion and NoNOISE sound restoration plug-ins. About SonicStudio HDSonicStudio HD is the latest version of SonicStudio - the digital audio workstation for CD premastering. SonicStudio HD consists of a audio processor, multi-channel digital I/O up to 192kHz, 24-bit and a suite of applications for recording, editing, processing and formatting digital audio. A multi-format mastering system, SonicStudio HD supports CD, DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, SACD and EMD mastering.About Sonic SolutionsBased in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing and interactive, streaming video on the Internet. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com) is the application for DVD authoring targeted at consumers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

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