HeadAcoustics ArtemiS 9 Now Includes DIRAC

Mainz, April 17th, 2008 — The latest version 9 of HeadAcoustics’ software ArtemiS (short for “Advanced Research TEchnology for Measurement and Investigation of Sound”), an advanced measurement software that is industry standard for vibration analysis now includes DIRAC for time stretching and pitch shifting of measured data. Read the full article on new features in ArtemiS 9 here.

According to their web site, ArtemiS is a recording, analysis and playback software, which was developed to deal with tasks in the field of sound and vibration quickly and efficiently. Simultaneous listening, analyzing and interactive filtering is of vital importance when using ArtemiS. Because only then – while using your own ears – can sound problems be effectively detected or target sounds defined.

DIRAC Licensing Options Changed

Mainz, March 3rd, 2008 — The DSP Dimension today announce that effective immediately DIRAC will only be available for licensing on an up-front one time payment basis. Since nine out of ten of our licensees use the up-front option the recurring licensing fee of the annual licensing option involved too much bookkeeping on our part to be actually profitable. We are still open to customized licensing options if you cannot afford or don’t want the off-the-shelf options that we offer, in this case we kindly ask you to get in touch with us to provide you with a custom tailored solution. Licensees currently using the annual licensing option can switch to a non-recurring licensing contract by paying a one-time fee of EUR 980. Please get in touch with us in order to have your contract changed accordingly.

DIRAC LE 1.3 Released

Mainz, November 13, 2007 – The DSP Dimension announce the immediate availability of version 1.3 of their free commercial grade DIRAC Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting library for Windows and MacOS X. Version 1.3 fixes many minor issues that were present in earlier versions and integrates both the bug fixes and improvements from the PRO into the LE version. The new version is a free download off our download page.

Site Redesign

Mainz, October 21, 2007 — As this web site is slowly but surely approaching its ten years anniversary in 2009 we have decided that it is time for a change. We wanted to steer clear of the old plain html design that was messy to maintain and tedious to update and go for a fully configurable Blog system instead. We are happy to announce that the move to our new system has been completed in no time thanks to the wonderful WordPress software. The good news is that this allows you to comment on some of our articles, providing us with immediate feedback and help on how to improve things. The bad news is that some of our “fun stuff” articles had to go, because there was no way to conceptually integrate them with the new web site content. But worry not – we still keep the entire old site around for you in case you need something. You can find it at http://oldsite.dspdimension.com. Please bear with us if some of the new pages have broken links or missing images – we are in the process of double checking everything right now and expect to have it up and running by the end of this week.

DIRAC-based TimeFactory2 MacOS X Standalone Software Released

April, 2007 — We are happy to announce the availability of a cooperation product with the Germany based company Prosoniq, one of the industry leaders in audio editing and processing software. The new version 2 of Prosoniq’s “TimeFactory” application was designed and developed by our development team and uses key technology like our DIRAC time stretching and pitch shifting. See their web site here for more details and a free demo version.

smbPitchShift Bumped Up to Version 1.2

October, 2006 — We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of version 1.2 of our smbPitchShift code. Version 1.2 fixes some long standing minor issues with initialization bounds, unused variables and sound quality when upshifting the pitch by larger factors. If your project uses the code make sure you replace the old version with the new one available from our download page. If you did not change the code from the original distribution this should be a simple replace.

OctaveShifter MacOS X AudioUnit by Frank Schoep

October, 2006 — Frank Schoep of “Forever For Now” has just released his OctaveShifter AudioUnit plug in which is based on our smbPitchShift code. This is what he has to say about it: “With the success I had with my previous Audio Unit, the Reverse Sampler, I set out to create another one. This time I wanted to do a realtime pitch shifting effect with a range of plus or minus one whole octave. Initially I thought it would be the easiest to make an effect that could only shift exactly an octave up or down. I tried several variations to create a decent pitch shifting algorithm but I couldn’t get anything to sound anywhere near a decent quality pitch shifter. […] I decided to stick with the pitch shifting code available on Stephan M. Bernsee’s DSP Dimension website. In record time I had implemented his code in my Audio Unit […]” Make sure you read the full story and download the free AudioUnit from his web site.