DIRAC 1.1 Now Includes Automatic Pitch/Intonation Correction

July 18th, 2005 — Being an ideal tool for sung or instrumental tracks that aren’t in perfect tune, DIRAC 1.1 now incorporates an advanced way of improving intonation on instrument and vocal tracks. Its automatic pitch detection and correction lets you automatically correct notes that deviate from their closest key on the piano keyboard. The DIRAC pitch correction is a lightning fast process that makes this application faster than realtime and ideal for A/B comparison sessions. Contrary to other pitch correction schemes on the market today that sound rather synthetic and lend a robotic quality to the processed tracks, DIRAC’s advanced intonation parameters allow for a natural result that is indistinguishable from the orginal track. Due to the fact that it doesn’t use granular synthesis like many of the other pitch correctors it does not produce any distortion or artifacts, and it doesn’t rely on the underlying signal being 100% periodic to produce a musical result. When you enable pitch correction you can adjust the pitch correction strength and capture range as well as the slur rate that defines the time until the note settles at the correct pitch. Much like a singer who adjusts the note while he sings, DIRAC adapts to the signal and smoothly shifts it to match the predefined pitch. Of course, DIRAC gives you full control over the reference tuning to match your recording. You can get the library and updated documentation from our download page.

miniAIFF 1.51 Posted

July 4th, 2005 — Version 1.51 of the free miniAIFF library is available for download from our downloads page. Version 1.51 adds support for MacOS X Universal Binary format and is compatible with the upcoming Intel-based Mac models. Xcode 2.1 and MacOS X 10.4 or later is recommended.

DIRAC 1.05 Posted

July 1st, 2005 — Version 1.05 of DIRAC LE is available for download. Click here for a detailed version history and changes in this version.