Audio Ease and Prosoniq Sign On as Sonic HDSP Plug-In Partners; Companies Join Sonic Solutions in Exclusive Alliance to Develop High-Density and Surround Audio Tools.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 1999-- Sonic Solutions Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a digital media company based in Novato, California, USA. It was created in 1986 by former Lucasfilm employees who developed the AudioDroid digital audio editing system as part of the Droidworks project. announced today at the Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES) that Audio Ease and Prosoniq have become the newest members in Sonic's HDSP HDSP Hardship HDSP High Definition Sound Projector (horn principle used in professional audio systems) (TM) Partners Program -- a partnership between Sonic and leading developers of audio processing technology (company) Audio Processing Technology - (APT) A company that produces codecs based on predictive analysis rather than frequency coding. to deliver a full range of processing applications for 24-bit, 96 kHz High-Density Audio(TM) and in both stereo and surround formats. Working with Sonic Solutions, the HDSP Partners are designing specialized software for the Sonic HDSP Plug-in Processor that extend its capabilities in a wide range of audio applications. "Our cooperation with Audio Ease and Prosoniq is a perfect fit for the HDSP Plug-in architecture," said Rolf Hartley, Audio Product Manger for Sonic Solutions. "Using these, and other HDSP Partner technologies, SonicStudio HD users will have access to new and important tools for multi-channel High-Density Audio." Audio Ease Masters File Conversion Audio Ease of the Netherlands is renowned for their award-winning soundfile conversion utility BarbaBatch. Audio Ease plans to build Barbabatch-HDSP, a conversion utility that will form the High-Density audio bridge between SonicStudio HD and OMF-compatible workstations, as well as supporting translations to and from SDII SDII Strategic Defense Initiative Institute SDII Sound Design International Incorporated , .wav, AIFF AIFF - Audio IFF , and MP3 among others. "Sonic Solutions has set the standard for High-Density Audio premastering and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. publishing. We are excited about joining the HDSP Plug-in Partners because this group represents the forward-most thinking for high-density and premastering techniques," said Peter Bakker of Audio Ease. "Barbabatch-HDSP will greatly enhance the ease with which digital audio assets move into and out of SonicStudio HD, making the most powerful mastering environment available today the most productive and versatile as well." Prosoniq Masters Time (and Pitch) Prosoniq Products, based in Germany, has established a strong reputation for research and development of innovative signal processing See DSP. methods and algorithms. Prosoniq is working with Sonic on an extremely advanced time and pitch compression/expansion technology. "SonicClarity(TM), Sonic's 48-bit audio path technology, provides our algorithms with an unmatched platform for precision signal processing," said Stephan M. Sprenger, Prosoniq's Director of R&D. "We expect our HDSP Plug-in participation to set a new standard for multi-channel, high-density time and pitch scale processing." Advanced HDSP Plug-in Processor Sonic's new HDSP Plug-in Processor has been specifically designed to deliver multi-channel, 24-bit, 96 kHz and 192 kHz High-Density Audio and to provide audio engineers in CD and DVD premastering with a tool that allows them to master for the next generation of digital audio delivery. With the most distinguished leaders in professional audio tools joining Sonic in its HDSP Plug-in Partnership, SonicStudio HD delivers the widest range of tools and plug-in processing capabilities for mastering these new formats. The Sonic HDSP Plug-in Processor utilizes an advanced HDSP array architecture to deliver the fastest and most flexible hardware platform available. With four, parallel-patched 80 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. 24-bit 56301 DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive processors, the plug-in processor can provide up to quad-precision accuracy for ultra-high-fidelity audio processing and stereo 192kHz audio. 1.5 MB of ultra-fast SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory on-board provides significant bandwidth for high-precision processing and customizable plug-in loads. Effects processing can take the form of inserts, send/return in user-selectable serial or parallel modes, or controllers, effectively replacing sections of the mixing desk. Multiple boards can be daisy-chained, delivering simultaneous effects processing. Sonic also offers a Software Developers Kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ) that provides third-party developers with the information and resources they need to develop applications and plug-ins for Sonic's HDSP Plug-in Processor. Interested firms can contact Sonic at hdsp@sonic.com for details. About the HDSP Partners The HDSP Partners are an unprecedented grouping of the industry's most highly-regarded audio technology firms, who are working with Sonic Solutions to develop plug-in technology for High-Density Audio and surround sound An audio recording and playback system that uses five or more channels plus a subwoofer channel. See 5.1 channel and 3D audio. . Sonic's HDSP Partners include: Audio Ease, db Technologies, George Massenburg George Y. Massenburg (b. Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an award-winning recording engineer and inventor. Working principally in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Macon, Georgia, Massenburg is widely known for his 1972 paper on the parametric equalizer. Labs, Lucid Technology, Media Morphics/Toolex, Metric Halo Labs, Pacific Microsonics, POW-r Consortium POW-R, as licensed and distributed by Apple Computer, Avid-Digidesign (NASDAQ: AVID), SADiE, Sonic Studio, BIAS, Cakewalk Sonar, Merging Technologies, Lake Technology (Dolby Labs), Weiss Engineering, Millennia Media, Z-Systems, and others, is an acronym for "Psychoacoustically Optimized , Meridian Audio, Prosoniq Products, Mytek, Inc., Weiss Engineering, Ltd., and Z Systems Audio Engineering. About SonicStudio HD SonicStudio HD is the latest version of SonicStudio -- the most widely used digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. A key feature of DAWs is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds, much like a word processor manipulates typed words. for CD premastering. The SonicStudio HD/DVD Creator AV system is the world's only completely integrated system for DVD-Audio and DVD-Video title production available today. SonicStudio HD consists of a high-performance audio processor, digital and analog I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output and converters, and a powerful suite of applications for recording, editing, processing and formatting digital audio. SonicStudio is used today by major record labels, recording studios and mastering houses to premaster more than two out of every three commercially released CDs. SonicStudio users have consistently won Grammy, Emmy and Oscar awards for their exceptional sound work. About Prosoniq (www.prosoniq.com) Prosoniq Products is a German software company researching and developing technology based on Neural Network processing for sound evaluation and processing. Prosoniq's unique Multiple Component Feature Extraction provides relatively unlimited access to distinct spectral properties as well as to the phase relation and exact frequency of harmonics, formants and temporal sound developments. About Audio Ease (www.audioease.com) Audio Ease of the Netherlands is well known for their award-winning soundfile conversion utility BarbaBatch. Audio Ease also makes audio processing software and innovative and useful utilities for the audio recording and mastering industry. About Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC SNIC Singapore National Institute of Chemistry SNIC Snow and Ice Clearance SNIC Sub-Network Independent Convergence (functions) SNIC Standard Network Interface Card ) Based in Marin County, California Marin County (IPA: /məˈrɪn/) is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2000, the population was 247,289. , Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world to prepare music, video, film, graphics and entertainment software. Sonic DVD Creator is the leading system for producing content for the DVD format, and has been used to create thousands of DVD titles worldwide, for applications ranging from feature film releases to corporate and industrial titles. Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD and for the first time makes DVD production available to the consumer market. Sonic Solutions' SonicStudio is the leading digital audio workstation used by audio professionals to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD, as well as for film and video soundtracks and broadcast. Sonic is a leader in advancing DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technology and is a full voting-member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format. Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the web at: http://www.sonic.com. Note to Editors: (c) 1999 Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, High-Density Audio, HDSP, SonicStudio HD and DVD Creator are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice. The above paragraphs of this press release contain forward looking statements that are based upon current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties including, among others, the timely introduction and acceptance of new products, costs associated with new product introductions, the transition of products to new hardware configurations and platforms and other factors, including those discussed in the Company's annual and quarterly reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release should be read in conjunction with the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain a more detailed discussion of the Company's business including risks and uncertainties that may affect future results. |
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