Take a close look at BIAS Deck 3.5. You'll find that no other Mac-based multitrack digital audio workstation touches Deck's combination of features, speed, compatibility, and value.
Need a professional audio solution for film or video? With Deck 3.5, you can spot effects, edit dialouge, process soundtracks, record ADR-style voiceovers and craft complex mixes to stereo or complete 5.1 surround — all while in perfect sync to a QuickTime movie or DV clip. For music production, Deck 3.5 is a dream: It's stable, capable, and sonically superb, with up to four realtime effects plug-ins per track. Working in broadcast? Deck 3.5 is fast, easy, and a remarkably cost-effective editing platform. And, its broad range of audio tools include surround mixing, are perfectly suited to multimedia development — for video games, the Web, presentations, or whatever.
With Deck 3.5, your creative potential is unlimited, thanks to its easy and intuitive user interface, scores of available plug-ins, and so much more. Simply put, nothing else gives you so much for so little.
Features
- Record, mix, play back, & process up to 64 simultaneous tracks
- Up to 999 virtual tracks
- High-performance, realtime mixing console, with dedicated faders, pans, & other controls
- Automated level mixing with high-resolution moving faders
- "Rubberband-style" breakpoint automation
- Mixer states "snapshot-style" scene automation
- Clip-based automation: Copy, Paste, Drag & Drop automation envelopes follow audio regions as they are moved
- 5.1 channel surround mixing capable, with fully automated, track-by-track, multi-algorithmic 360° panning to Left, Center, Right, Surround L, Surround R, plus LFE (subwoofer).
- Surround mixing pan algorithms include Radius 5.1, Variable Width 5.1 and Room Ambiance 5.1.
- Advanced realtime signal processing with VST plug-in support*
- Includes over 25 free VST audio effect plug-ins, including BIAS Freq 4-band paragraphic EQ & BIAS Vbox SE multi-effects control environment*
- Built-in realtime DSP effects including Chorus, EQ, Delay, & Multitap
- Support for multiple sample rate & bit depth formats, up to 48kHz & 16-bit**
- SMPTE/EBU timecode-fluent for editing, spotting, & external chase-lock synchronization***
- Slaves with subframe accuracy to external video tape recorders & other transports — ideal for layback & other assembly***
- Import QuickTime movies & synchronize audio-to-picture with better-than-frame accuracy
- Scrub QuickTime movie with full audio chase
- Lightning-fast spotting of audio clips to picture
- ADR (automated dialog replacement) capable
- Monitor previously recorded tracks while recording new tracks (optionally in sync to a QuickTime movie)
- Discontiguous clip selection
- Clip nudging & trimming — with better-than-subframe accuracy
- Sync to external MIDI sequencers***
- Non-destructive punch-in & punch-out
- Master fader with stereo effects bus
- OMF support allows importing from other DAWs such as non-linear video editors including Final Cut Pro, Premiere & Avid
- Use built-in Macintosh audio inputs/outputs or compatible audio interface/card hardware
- Supports most ASIO (OS 9), Sound Manager, & CoreAudio (OS X) compatible audio hardware
- Supports multiple file formats including AIFF, SDII, .WAV, .SND, & QuickTime
- Export sessions as QuickTime movie with multiple format options
- Allows external waveform editor such as Peak to be launched from session
- Includes Peak LE 3 at no extra charge - for advanced sample editing, mastering, and CD burning.
*Not all bundled VST plug-ins are currently Mac OS X compatible, but can be used in Classic (OS 9.x) mode
**With compatible hardware; 16-bit/44kHz CD-quality audio with built-in Mac audio in/out
***Via third-party CoreMIDI drivers (Mac OS X) or OMS drivers (OS 9)
System Requirements
Mac
- PowerPC, G3, or G4desktop Apple Macintosh or PowerBook (>200MHz processor recommended)
- Macintosh OS 8.5 minimum
- 64 MB RAM minimum
- 20 MB available disk space
- 18 ms hard drive (average seek time) or faster
- QuickTime 4.0 or later
- Apple Sound Manager 3.3 or later (for use with Mac OS versions prior to OS X)
- Recording/playback at higher bit depths may require compatible third-party hardware/drivers
- CoreAudio or ASIO support requires compatible hardware and drivers
- ASIO support requires compatible ASIO hardware and drivers
