• Steinberg Adopt DIRAC Time Stretching Technology for WaveLab 6
Posted by Bernsee on February 18, 2006 in *NEWS*
February, 2006 — We are happy to welcome Philippe Goutier (the author of WaveLab) as a new licensing partner amongst the licensees of the critically acclaimed DIRAC time and pitch manipulation software released by the DSP Dimension in 2005. Goutier/Steinberg have adopted our novel DIRAC time stretching and pitch shifting technology for the latest version 6 of their popular WaveLab audio editing software for Windows which is in stores now. Read about the feature set of WaveLab 6 here. “DIRAC is among the most advanced algorithms for time-based manipulation of audio material available today. Excellent audio quality, outstanding performance and maximum precision are among the superlative qualities this technology brings to WaveLab 6. Its flexibility allows it to be used on a huge range of audio material including vocals, drum loops and classical string ensembles to name just a few”, says the Steinberg web site.
WaveLab is undoubtably one of the most popular audio editing tools on the Windows platform. Together with other leading software products that already use DIRAC, such as custom-tailored high-end audio and video systems presently being used at the Paramount editing facilities, DIRAC has quickly become accepted by the leading developers in the audio industry as the standard for high end time and pitch manipulation. Currently, we have many more inquiries by leading companies and we expect to announce new licensing partners very soon.
DIRAC has been designed from the ground up to deliver optimum quality with any audio material. This means it is optimized to process both musically monophonic and polyphonic material with equal ease and success. Its innovative formant correction keeps the tone and color of the processed sounds unaltered even for large pitch shift ratios, making it an ideal tool to transpose lead vocals or entire scores at very high quality. Its unique pre-scheduling feature calculates dynamic time and pitch envelopes independently of the host software, which makes it possible to edit the audio material on a sample-accurate level without actually implementing envelopes in the host.
Employing the latest technology for adaptive time frequency transforms, DIRAC is presently the only technology that can have the coherence and precision of time domain methods while preserving the excellent resolution of frequency domain methods for polyphonic material over a wide range of stretch ratios, without reverberation artifacts and echoes. In case you have not yet checked out the DIRAC product page we’d like to welcome you to our DIRAC product page. DIRAC is available in 3 different varieties at very competitive licensing fees - the LE version of the technology even comes entirely free of charge. Full ANSI C/C++ source code is available as a special licensing option.
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