If you record music with digital gear, you already know how challenging it can be to get that warm, broad, analog sound. Yet, up until now, there's never been a way to achieve this without leaving the digital domain and piping your music through expensive analog gear.
T-RackS provides an intuitive, great-sounding solution to this digital dilemma with a stand-alone software mastering suite for your personal computer that is physically modeled after analog gear! Put analog back into your digital domain!
- 4 Processors in 1 - analog-modeled Equalizer, Compressor, Limiter and the new soft-clipping output stage
- Now supports 24 bit Aiff, Wav and SDII files for importing and exporting.
- Specifically Designed for Mastering
- Astonishing sound is created with algorithms based on real analog circuitry
- 32-Bit Internal Resolution
- High Productivity, Ease of Use
Features
Equalizer
- State-of-the-art six band parametric equalizer, modeled on classic top quality analog gear.
- 4th order parametric, High and Low pass filters
- Parametric Low-shelving control
- Parametric Lo-mid control with Low or High "Q"
- Parametric Hi-mid control with Low or High "Q"
- Parametric High-shelving control
Compressor
- Classic tube stereo compressor/leveler designed for mastering.
- Vintage-style compression unit
- Classic warm "in-face" sound of old tube mastering levelers
- Very-soft knee compression with no threshold point
- Stereo-image width control
- Mastering-oriented variable time constants
- Comprehensive and accurate gain-reduction VU
- New Ratio control
Limiter
- Multiband master stereo limiter.
- High-quality 3-band limiting stage
- Ultra fast peak detection
- Ultra-linear and accurate band mixing for high-end performance
- Overload for accurate control of limiting and saturation
- Soft clipping feature for warm analog emulation
- Comprehensive gain reduction VU
- Very accurate peak LED indicators at the outputs
- Output stage with hard/soft selectable clipping
NEW Output stage with soft-clipping shaper
- Astoundingly musical and smooth performance
- Variable clipping shape (from hard clip to ultra-soft) for complete control and precision
- Easily increase gain with no compression or limiting artifacts (unless you want them!)
- Create warm, saturated mastering effects
Professional Metering and Monitoring
- Responsive analog VU's
- Ultra-fast and accurate pop-up digital peak meter with hardware-like performance
- NEW x10 switch on the peak meter makes very easy to evaluate the level of the master in the "critical zone"
- NEW "over" LED precisely shows when the master has "overs"
- NEW mono, stereo and difference monitoring to check the master for mono-compatibility and stereo image coherence, like in high-end consoles
Internal parameter adjustments
- NOW by drag-and-drop text parameter list can be easily change the default architecture of T-RackS 24 to achieve the finest special settings.
Other features
- High quality real time preview and processing
- Works on any standard stereo 16 bit and NOW 24 bit, WAV, SDII or AIFF audio files, 44.1/48kHz
- 32 bit floating point internal processing for amazing audio resolution and true analog simulation
- Analog modeled animated interface
- Fade-in/fade out, loop and scrollable preview
- Time-line markers to facilitate the immediate recall/play of mixes
- Control snapshots to recall entire set-ups with just one click
- Graphical built-in help, extensive manual and tutorial
- Presets included
- Compatible with all popular audio cards
- 8 NEW amazing "vintage" skins
- NOW dongle-free
System Requirements
Minimum Mac Requirements
- Power Mac 180 MHz PPC603e or 120 MHz PPC604e
- 7.5 or later system software; includes OSX support also
- 32 MB RAM
- Screen settings: 640x480, thousands of colors.
- Digital I/O audio card is needed for high-quality mastering.
Minimum Windows Requirements
- Intel Pentium 200 MHz MMX, optimized for Pentium III.
- Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP
- 32MB RAM and high-quality sound card.
- Screen settings: 800x600, high colors (16 bit).
- Digital I/O audio card is needed for high-quality mastering.
