Sonic Studio Ships DSD.1 with Lower PriceDSD.1 Provides 8 Channel DSD Assembly and SACD Authoring
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DSD.1
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February 3, 2004
Sonic Studio, LLC announced shipment of the first product in their all new DSD/SACD product line. The Sonic Studio DSD.1 system combines the Sonic Studio editing and mastering environment with the emerging standard for music recording and delivery, Direct Stream Digital and Super Audio CD. Sonic Studio also revealed an all new discounted pricing structure for their DSD/SACD line with systems starting at $7,995.
Developed in cooperation with Sony and Phillips, the format's creators, DSD.1 is comprised of a full length PCI interface card supporting 8 bidirectional channels of DSD via the SDIF-3 protocol or DSD-raw. Recording and editing is performed entirely within the DSD domain at 64fs using the Sonic Studio editing environment. In addition to its multichannel DSD recording capability, DSD.1 also imports preexisting DSD files as long as they are compliant with the DSD-IFF standard file format.
DSD.1 is shipped in two configurations, a base system and a version that includes SACD authoring functionality similar to Sonic Studio's upcoming SACD.1 stand alone authoring tool. Final SACD compliant cutting masters are written to Sony AIT Type 1 tape cartridges for delivery to the manufacturing plant. DSD.1 with Authoring also includes full DST encoding for authoring SACD's in 6 channel surround.
In addition to the DSD.1, Sonic Studio will soon release two other DSD/SACD products. A standalone software only authoring app called SACD.1 and DSD.x, an add-on processing board Sonic Solutions Launches Sonic Studio, LLC for the DSD.1 which adds Sony Oxford-based mixing, DSD-native filtering and processing, and the SuperMAC multichannel I/O interface.
For more information, visit their web site at www.sonicstudio.com. | 
