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Fission
Rogue Amoeba
With Fission, audio editing is no longer a chore. You can join files, crop and trim audio, and rapidly split up long files. Fission is streamlined for fast editing, and it works without the quality loss other audio editors cause. If you need to convert between audio formats, Fission can do that too. Rapidly export or batch convert files to the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats. Fission has all your audio needs covered. Finally, simple audio editing has arrived. Fission offers all the standard audio editing options you need right at your fingertips. Unlike overly complicated competitors, there's no clutter or bloat. Fission never causes quality loss when it edits, even with the MP3 and AAC formats. It's like magic, and it's something only Fission offers! Fission's batch convertor lets you convert dozens of files at once, to any of the most popular formats: MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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TwistedWave
TwistedWave
TwistedWave for Mac a very powerful and yet very easy to use audio editor. With TwistedWave on your iPad or iPhone, you can record and edit anything, anywhere. This is just like a portable home studio. Run TwistedWave without having to download or install anything. Launch it directly from your web browser, and continue editing your files where you left them. TwistedWave is available for Mac, iPhone, iPad and online. Open TwistedWave, press record. That is how easy it is to start recording a podcast, a song or a concert. While you are recording, place markers with a single key to remember places you will have to edit afterwards. It is truly a good tool for voice over artists. Equalization, compression, limiting, you name it. From the hundreds of available Audio Unit or VST plugins, you will surely find the right one for the best effect. TwistedWave can read and write files in many different formats.Starting Price: $99.90 one-time payment -
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Auto-Tune
Antares
Auto-Tune Pro is the most advanced edition of Auto-Tune. It includes auto mode, for real-time correction and effects, graph mode, for detailed pitch and time editing, and the Auto-Key plug-in for automatic key and scale detection. Auto-Tune Pro also includes classic mode, for the celebrated “Auto-Tune 5 sound,” Flex-Tune and Humanize for more transparent and natural-sounding tuning, Throat Modeling for subtle or extreme vocal transformations, and Transpose for real-time pitch-shifting with automatic formant correction. Low latency processing lets you perform through Auto-Tune Pro in real-time on stage or in the studio, without worrying about distracting delay. Both the auto mode and graph mode interfaces are designed to offer the most efficient, flexible, and intuitive workflow for professional users and beginners alike. Auto mode includes two unique screen views, basic view gives you quick and easy access to the core features of auto mode, and advanced view unlocks the powerful MIDI.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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Melodyne
Melodyne
Your key to the music in the audio files. Melodyne is used every day in major studios worldwide and by thousands of professionals. To correct, perfect, reshape and restructure vocals, samples and recordings of all kinds in the highest quality. In a far-reaching, intuitive and musical way only Melodyne makes possible. Find out more about the Grammy-award-winning tool that has revolutionized the way audio is handled and become an integral part of modern music production. Melodyne grants you unrivaled access to all the musical details in your recordings and samples, note by note. This is made possible by a sophisticated analysis that delves deeply into your recordings and samples and recognizes and understands the musical relationships within them, the individual notes and their characteristics, the scales, keys and chords, the timing, the tempo, the tone color. And with Melodyne you can edit all these things intuitively.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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AudioLava
Acon Digital
AudioLava is the ideal audio cleaning software for restoring and recording high-quality audio from LP or tape to CD. The new version now runs on both Macintosh and Windows PCs and comes with a modern dark theme that appears crystal sharp on retina-style displays. The user-friendly interface helps to find the best way to bring old recordings back to life and guides the user through all the steps from recording, file import and track splitting to restoration and CD burning. You can remove noise such as tape hiss, hum or clicks and crackle on LP records as well as improve clipped audio. The algorithms are based on our award-winning audio restoration technology but offers a simplified user interface that makes the restoration process easier. Recordings are automatically split into separate tracks, which can also be edited manually. The large set of integrated tools range from dynamic processing and equalization to highly realistic reverb.Starting Price: $30.50 one-time payment -
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Krotos Reformer Pro
Krotos
Design, automate, and perform sound effects in real-time. You do your best sound design work when you get the right sound from your head in sync with the scene. Reformer Pro offers a new and intuitive way of designing sound, helping you achieve this as quickly as you can think of it. Discover inspirational ways to refine your sound design workflow. Reformer Pro’s patented technology allows you to quickly perform Foley, add textures, and easily replace any sound, saving you hours of editing time. Perform your Foley, animal, sci-fi, or impact sound effects instantly and intuitively within your DAW, saving you hours of editing. Easily capture subtle movement and nuance that elevate your project’s quality. Reformer Pro’s award-winning patented technology allows you to quickly add textures, easily replace any sound and discover inspirational new ways to maximize your sound design workflow.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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Krotos Dehumaniser 2
Krotos
Dehumaniser 2 gives sound designers the tools to process countless vocal scenarios from within one plugin. No need for additional software. Dehumaniser 2 is a powerful vocal processor for designing complex vocal sound effects and processing dialogue. Create creatures, monsters, and robots easily and quickly with Dehumaniser 2’s intuitive and modular workflow. Customize and combine effects modules for unlimited creative possibilities, or get started straight away with 100 ready-to-go presets. Dehumaniser 2 is the all-in-one solution that puts vital vocal sound design features at your fingertips, making it the ideal plugin for use in film, TV, video games, live performance, and more. This versatile vocal processor eliminates the difficulty of setting up complex processing chains and allows designers to jump right into their creative work. Use Dehumaniser 2 to sound design voice processing that reacts to the dynamics of the incoming signal.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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Krotos Concept 2
Krotos
Concept 2 is everything you want in a modern synth plugin, beautiful sounds without the complexity of operation found in many other synths. Your time is valuable, and so we wanted to give you access to a rich sound design palette without having to spend time learning how to use it. With Concept 2, you can get lost in the music, not the manual. We designed Concept 2 for musicians, producers, composers, sound designers, and post-production professionals who want to create sounds fast. Here are just some of the highlights of the benefits of creating sounds with Concept 2. With tons of great-sounding presets from top artists, including Roni Size, Richard Devine, and Kayla Painter, there’s every chance you’ll find a sound that works right out of the box. Cinematic lush pads, organic soundscapes, stirring strings, killer bass synths, screaming leads, and more. Presets are a great starting point, but Concept 2 gives you access to almost limitless routing parameters to shape the sound.Starting Price: $149 one-time payment -
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Krotos Igniter
Krotos
Igniter is a one-stop solution for designing, performing, and automating vehicles directly in your DAW. From everyday vehicles, sports cars, motorbikes, planes, helicopters, spacecraft, drones, or anything you can imagine. Select from over 20 high-quality performable vehicles including Ford F150, Harley Davidson, Audi R8 and more. Process vehicle sound effects as part of a powerful, hybrid workflow using granular, synth, one-shot, or loop modules. Igniter will save hours of editing and will allow you to perform your vehicle sound effects via MIDI or change the length or type of sound in a complex vehicle scene in seconds. Design vehicles with automation and eliminate the time-consuming elements of vehicle sound effects. Follow along to your footage on-screen as you design, with a flexible and quick workflow. Add a doppler effect to any preset in Igniter instantly, and perform the movement of a vehicle through a space, or as it moves past the viewer.Starting Price: $478.80 one-time payment -
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Free Audio Editor
Free Audio Editor
Free Audio Editor can digitize sound recordings of your rare music cassette tapes, vinyl LPs, and videos, creating standard digital sound files. Timer and input level triggered recording is included. There is a button to activate the system Windows Mixer without visiting the control panel. The recording can be directly loaded into the waveform window for further perfection. You can edit audio using the traditional waveform view or the frequency-based spectral display which makes it easy to isolate and remove unwanted noise. Intuitive cut/copy/paste/trim/mute and more actions can be performed easily. The selection tools make the editing operations performed with millisecond precision. Enhance your audio with more than 30 native signal and effects processing engines, including compression, EQ, fade in/out, delay, chorus, reverb, time stretching, pitch shifting, and more. It significantly increases your audio processing capabilities.Starting Price: Free -
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Switch
NCH Software
Switch is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive multi-format audio file converters available. With Switch, you can convert WMA, WAV, CDS, AIFF, MPEG, AVI and more to MP3 files or vice-versa. You can extract audio from your video files and instantly normalize sound levels. Switch MP3 converter supports more than 75 common audio file formats, so you will always have the file format that you need.Starting Price: $50 -
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SpectraLayers
Steinberg
The expert in spectral editing and AI-driven audio processing. SpectraLayers delivers audio empowerment by showing sounds as visual objects. You can explore, reach in, take, and transform, working wonders on tasks ranging from repairing and restoring audio to freeform sound design. Unmatched selection tools developed over many years are now joined by new artificial intelligence-driven audio extraction and repair processes, making this the most significant version of SpectraLayers yet. Looking at audio on a spectrograph display is one thing, but the ability to easily touch, sculpt, and shape what you see is what sets SpectraLayers apart. And now you have a skilled, highly trained AI partner who can sense patterns, perform operations, and speed you on your way to perfect audio. The manual selection tools in SpectraLayers allow everything from broad brush editing to microscopic intervention. AI-assisted processes bring even more speed and precision.Starting Price: $1,748 one-time payment -
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iZotope Aurora
iZotope
Aurora reacts to your audio to easily and dynamically unmask instruments and vocals, creating lush, three-dimensional space that won’t drown out your tracks. Aurora is so much more than a state-of-the-art reverb engine. With the intuitive and powerful Unmasking section, you can give your tracks pro-quality depth without the headache of muddy, cloudy mixes. Aurora dynamically reacts to incoming audio, carving space out of the reverb signal to let your instruments and vocals stay focused and clear. Whether you're working with subtle ambiance or lush effects, Aurora gives you instantly clean reverb without muddy mixes or long plugin chains. Powered by Exponential Audio’s legendary reverb algorithms, Aurora isn’t just helpful for focused mixes, it sounds incredible too. Choose from one of six different reverb types and easily fine-tune your reverb amount, pre-delay/decay times, width, tone, and more.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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iZotope Plasma
iZotope
iZotope's Plasma is an innovative audio plugin that enhances your sound with adaptive tube saturation. Unlike traditional saturators that apply a static effect, Plasma's Flux saturation technology analyzes your audio and applies dynamic processing, adding precise warmth, depth, and character to your mixes and masters. It offers 24 target profiles tailored for various audio elements, from drums and vocals to full masters, allowing you to guide the saturation effect effectively. With intuitive attack and release settings, an overdrive fader for added intensity, and frequency handles to boost specific frequency ranges, Plasma provides comprehensive control over your sound. Channel modes enable enhancement of the center of your mix or widening of the stereo field, as well as shaping the attack and tail of your sound for more precise control. The plugin includes 49 custom-built presets, offering quick starting points for different vibes, whether bright, deep, balanced, or warm.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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iZotope Total Balance Control
iZotope
Tonal Balance Control 2 is a plug-in designed to help audio professionals achieve balanced mixes that translate well across different playback systems. It allows users to visualize the tonal balance of their audio and compare it against 12 target curves representing popular music genres. Users can also load an audio file to create a custom reference curve. The plug-in facilitates communication with compatible iZotope plug-ins like Relay, enabling adjustments to tracks without leaving the Tonal Balance Control 2 interface. Additionally, it offers the ability to open and control EQs from Ozone and Neutron for more precise adjustments. The included iZotope Relay allows for adjustments to gain, pan, stereo image, and more, providing a lightweight mixing tool that integrates seamlessly with Tonal Balance Control 2. This integration ensures that users can view the frequencies of any track against their tonal balance target, aiding in the creation of mixes that adhere to genre standards.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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iZotope RX
iZotope
RX is the industry trailblazer for audio repair and enhancement. Powered by machine learning technology, RX’s comprehensive suite of tools tackles everything from common audio problems to the trickiest of sonic rescues, for music, audio post-production, and content creation. RX is available as a standalone audio editing application that includes a suite of software plugins for use with digital audio workstations. Visually target and replace unwanted sounds like dog barks, string squeaks, and sirens with RX’s spectrogram. Tackle specific issues like clicks, clips, hum, rustles, and background noise with bespoke repair modules. Get even more surgical with tools that can re-shape the intonation of dialogue, remove reverb, match ambiances and EQ profiles, and much more. Plus, if you’re looking for a helping hand to get great results fast, RX’s repair assistant intelligently recognizes and proposes fixes for specific problems that you can tweak to your liking with easy-to-use dials.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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Apple Creator Studio
Apple
Apple Creator Studio is a subscription-based creative suite that brings together Apple’s most powerful professional apps in one package. It includes industry-leading tools like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for video, music, and image creation. The suite also enhances productivity with premium content and smart features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform. Built-in AI capabilities powered by Apple Intelligence help speed up workflows and spark creativity. Apple Creator Studio is designed to work seamlessly across Mac, iPad, and iPhone for a fluid creative process. A single subscription unlocks unlimited creative possibilities without juggling multiple licenses. Overall, Apple Creator Studio provides a unified environment for creating, editing, and producing professional-quality content.Starting Price: $12.99/month -
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ERA Bundle
Accusonus
Tackle all the audio issues you routinely face, literally in seconds. Salvage tracks which cannot be recorded again. Get professional audio results with minimal effort. Improve the quality of your recordings by miles, even if you’ve never edited audio before. Complex software just doesn’t get easier to use! Use the Noise Remover to automatically clean up your noisy indoor or outdoor recordings. Make your voice sound more intelligible, without artifacts. Reduce the unavoidable background noises such as air conditioners and fans or electric hum and hiss. The Noise Remover allows you to clean up your audio with one button, everything else is under the hood. It’s as simple as turning it on and off! Every actor’s voice sounds more thin & high-pitched when recorded. The Voice Deepener will make your talent’s voice sound more like they hear it themselves and less like it sounds in recordings.Starting Price: $9.99 per month -
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PreSonus Sphere
PreSonus Audio Electronics
You also get a library of master class videos, collaboration tools, monthly live streams, exclusive Studio One features, industry veteran-authored presets, and tons of loop and construction kit content—and we’re constantly adding more, month after month after month. No hidden fees. No additional upgrade costs. All in PreSonus Sphere. A PreSonus Sphere membership includes a license for award-winning Studio One Professional–the only DAW that lets you record, produce, mix, master, and perform from within a single application. Go from creative concept to final mastered album—even use stems from your songs as backing tracks for your live performance—all from Studio One. PreSonus Sphere is the ultimate toolkit for the modern composer. From simple lead sheets to complete orchestrations, you’ll deliver polished scores fast with award-winning Notion® software.Starting Price: $14.95 per month -
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Mixbus
Harrison
With dozens of DAWs to choose from, there's only one that is designed to work like a Harrison, with an analog paradigm that embodies form, function, and sound. Where other DAWs use a computer paradigm, MIXBUS grows from Harrison's distinguished 40-year heritage of platinum records and blockbuster films such as Thriller, Graceland, and Spider-Man. Mixbus is the first full-featured DAW with true analog-style mixing. Harrison has a unique history. In the mid-80s, we developed fully-automated, digitally-controlled analog mixer technology which was adopted by premiere film-mixing facilities around the world. When the digital revolution came, we were asked to convert the analog "processor" into a digital processor, while leaving the control surface unchanged. Film mixers wanted the control surface to work and sound exactly like the analog mixer they were using for previous projects. This required us to develop a digital audio engine that operated and sounded exactly like an analog mixer.Starting Price: $93.90 one-time payment -
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LUNA
Universal Audio
Designed for seamless integration with Apollo audio interfaces, LUNA is our free Mac‑based recording application that lets you do music recording, audio editing, composition, sound design, and more, all in real time, and with big analog studio sound. Far beyond plug‑ins, LUNA extensions are built into the fabric of LUNA's mixer, giving you authentic analog sounds without having to manage multiple plug‑in windows. Create with precisely emulated analog summing from legendary Neve and API consoles. These optional LUNA Extensions will transform a clean, sterile mix to sound as if it was mixed on a classic analog desk. Get the punch and rich textures of magnetic tape on any audio or instrument track, as well as your master fader and buses, with optional Studer A800 and Ampex ATR-102 LUNA Extensions. You can also sculpt warm analog tape tones with the included Oxide Tape Machine Extension. -
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen
Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4. Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats. Support of samples in compressed FLAC file. Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song. Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length. Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities. Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument). Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package. Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags. Export/Import single patterns into song projects. Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor. Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions. -
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Helm
Helm
Helm runs in GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Run Helm as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin. Comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This means you are free to run Helm anywhere without the pains of DRM, you can study and change the source code and redistribute exact or modified copies of Helm. Helm is a software synthesizer. You use it to create electronic music on your computer. Helm is free as in freedom. This means you control this software, it doesn't control you. In terms of money, Helm is pay what you want. So you are free to pay nothing. Any sound that comes out of Helm belongs to the person who played it. You are the copyright holder to any sound you create with Helm. You can turn some modules on and of. They have little power buttons in the top left that you can click to turn them on or of. The SUB module is one of the three sound producers in Helm. It controls a single oscillator that by default plays one octave below the currently played note. -
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Sound Forge
MAGIX Software
SOUND FORGE has been setting new standards in the field of digital audio production for over 20 years. The favorite tool of renowned producers worldwide, for instance Grammy award winner Ted Perlman, this legendary audio editor stands for innovation at the highest level. Originating in the USA, SOUND FORGE technology continues to be developed and optimized by MAGIX today and combines the spirit of pioneering ambition with the art of engineering precision. Powerful editing tools, ultra-fast processing and an innovative workflow – it's all offered by the audio editor SOUND FORGE. Discover a new level of audio editing with precise technology, productivity with 64-bit support and crystal-clear audio quality. Simple digitization, cleaning and restoration of audio – SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab 4 offers dedicated presets and practical 1-click solutions that are specially designed for this area of application. -
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WaveLab
Steinberg Media Technologies
Mastering is one of the most important parts of the music production process. WaveLab is a complete mastering solution, with every tool that you will ever need to cover your workflow from start to finish. With the support of a global network of mastering engineers who all use it, WaveLab is the key to making every aspect of your masters truly professional. -
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ACID Pro
MAGIX
It’s that magic moment again. You hear a song on the radio and you just can’t wait to sample or remix it. True inspiration. With ACID Pro, you will be able to sketch that idea and turn it into a finished track faster than any other DAW. Its unique workflows, innovative features and professional tools were designed specifically for loop- and sample-based music production. Compose, arrange, record, mix and master. But most importantly: be creative. Experience ACID Pro. ACID Pro 11 takes loop-based music production one step further – yet again. Since its historic invention in 1998 leading to today’s industry standard, ACID has continued to offer the most extensive options for arranging, editing and resampling audio. Countless artists have relied on ACID and its workflow to create some of the most famous compositions in IDM and EDM. ACIDized loops let you manipulate audio material and immediately get creative with stems. -
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Bitwig Studio
Bitwig
Bitwig Studio inspires you to take greater control of your music, giving you access to every aspect of your production. Streamline your creative process and quickly evolve your ideas into complete songs, tracks, and compositions. Record and arrange, improvise and perform, or do it all at once. Linear and non-linear workflows for sound design, recording, live performance, and beyond. Enjoy over 10 GB (and counting) of world-class sound content from Bitwig and selected partners. The modulation system in Bitwig Studio allows you to use Macro controls, Note Expressions, LFOs, and Envelopes to modulate any device, VST plug-in, or hardware parameter. With 30+ modulators (and counting) the potential for creative expression is endless. -
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Renoise
Renoise
Renoise is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a refreshing twist. It lets you record, compose, edit, process and render production-quality audio using a tracker-based approach. In a tracker, the music runs from top to bottom in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. Several patterns arranged in a certain order make up a song. Step-editing in a pattern grid lends itself well to a fast and immediate workflow. On top of this, Renoise features a wide range of modern features: dozens of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument and effect plug-in formats. And the software can be extended too, with scripting, you can use all of your MIDI or OSC controller to control it in exactly the way you want. Whether you're an audio veteran or just starting out, Renoise is a fantastic addition to any bedroom or professional studio. Combine the best aspects of both trackers and sequencers! -
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AudioDesk
MOTU
AudioDesk provides all of the high-end features you'd expect in a professional workstation application, like 24-bit/192-kHz recording and real-time, 32-bit effects processing. The software includes multi-track audio editing, sample-accurate placement of audio, a complete virtual mixing environment with up to 64 stereo busses, automated mixing, graphic editing of mix and effects automation, scrubbing, trimming, spotting, crossfades, support for third-party AU, VST2, and MAS effects plug-ins, unlimited digital track bouncing (including effects and automation), and much more. AudioDesk does not place artificial restrictions on the number of tracks you can work with. Unlimited audio tracks means AudioDesk is ready for as many tracks as your computer will allow. Unlike other audio sequencers, AudioDesk places no limits on the number of tracks you can use simultaneously. -
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DTS:X Encoder Suite
Scenarist
The DTS:X Encoder Suite is the successor to DTS-HD Master Audio Suite and delivers the ability to create, modify and QC legacy DTS-HD and next-generation immersive DTS:X audio bitstreams. Supporting up to 12.1 channel and object-based encoding of DTS:X Master Audio for Blu-ray Disc, Ultra HD Blu-ray and other premium digital media formats, the DTS:X Encoder Suite provides a critical link in delivering next-generation theatrical and episodic content for use in the home consumer market. DTS:X Master Audio is the only codec that offers truly 24-bit lossless and discrete immersive audio for Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray and other digital formats. It supports both high-channel count and multi-dimensional object-based audio coding while maintaining full backward compatibility with legacy DTS-HD and DTS Digital Surround devices, all within a single bitstream. Included Peak Bitrate Analysis Graph provides detailed, graphical analysis of a bitstream’s data rate.
