Las Vegas, Nev.,
April 24, 2000 -- Kind of Loud Technologies announced today the development
of two 5.1 encoder software packages for Digidesign’s Pro Tools SmartCode
Pro will be available in both Dolby Digital and DTS versions. Pro Tools
is the digital audio workstation of choice among audio professionals
worldwide.
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SmartCode
Pro's Dolby Digital plug-in.
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Kind of Loud Technologies
provides a complete suite of surround production tools to allow Pro
Tools users to mix in 5.1 surround. SmartPan Pro is a panning plug-in
that brings true discrete 5.1 surround panning to the Pro Tools platform.
In February, the company shipped its RealVerb 5.1 Surround Reverb for
Pro Tools – the first surround reverb on the market in any form. Tweetie,
a monitoring and calibration plug-in and Woofie, a bass management plug-in,
are utilities necessary in professional surround production. SmartCode
Pro completes the suite of surround software that allows Pro Tools users
to record, edit, and encode their surround mixes completely within the
Pro Tools environment. Until now, Pro Tools users have had to rely on
costly dedicated hardware to encode their 5.1 mixes; to date there are
few software encoders and none designed for Pro Tools.
"Pro Tools users are known to be ‘early adopters’ of new technologies
and not surprisingly, they have sought 5.1 encoding/decoding software
for some time," said Suz Howells, VP Marketing and Sales for Kind
of Loud. "With SmartCode Pro, Digidesign’s customers will have
the technology to create and encode 5.1 mixes entirely within Pro Tools,"
she added.
SmartCode Pro is an AudioSuite program that allows Pro Tools users to
preview in real time 5.1 mixes created by the Pro Tools software and
the SmartPan Pro plug-in; then encode and decode the mix to create a
6-channel surround master. SmartCode Pro/Dolby Digital ($995 MSRP)
and SmartCode Pro/DTS ($1995 MSRP) are expected to ship Q3, 2000. Kind
of Loud Technologies will sell both products through its worldwide resellers
network and via its web site, www.kindofloud.com.
Based in Santa Cruz, California, Kind of Loud Technologies creates surround
sound software for digital audio workstations. DTS is a trademark of
Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Dolby and Dolby Digital are trademarks
of Dolby Laboratories.
Kind of Loud Technologies, LLC, Postal Box 3800 Santa Cruz, CA 95063-3800
Phone: 831/466-3737 Fax: 831/466 3775; www.kindofloud.com
Source: Digidesign
www.digidesign.com