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Prosoniq Begins Porting to RTAS and TDM Orange Vocoder is First in Line of New Products for Pro Tools (Click for a close-up) September 29, 2000 Digidesign and Prosoniq are proud to announce the release of the Prosoniq Orange Vocoder, a Real Time AudioSuite effects processor for Pro Tools. The Orange Vocoder is Prosoniq’s first initiative in a strategic alliance with Digidesign, the world leader in digital audio production and the developer of Pro Tools and Pro Tools LE digital audio workstations. Digidesign will be the exclusive distributor of the Orange Vocoder, the first of a long list of plug-ins for the RTAS and TDM processing platforms from Prosoniq. Prosoniq is also announcing plans to discontinue its Plug-In distribution relationship with Steinberg GmbH, and to phase out its development activities for VST to focus fully on the RTAS and TDM processing platforms of Digidesign’s Pro Tools product line. Orange Vocoder offers an all-digital simulation of a realistic analog vocoder with effects that are fully customizable within the Pro Tools environment. Orange Vocoder uses either the source/audio track or the built-in oscillator as carrier signal, and any audio track as modulator. Other Features Include: Advertisement Integrated 8-voice virtual analog synthesizer with 2 oscillators per voice featuring 10 basic wavefoms and 7 sampled sounds, voice detune, pitch LFO, 4-pole Lowpass filter with cutoff and resonance, oscillator hard sync and ring modulator. Fully customizable Graphical Breakpoint EQ with max. 12 nodes, ranging from 20Hz to 20kHz and resolving from +30 to -30 dB Input Channel flip to instantly exchange carrier and modulator signals without re-routing tracks Post-Vocoder Filterbank Reverb Effect with Mix, Decay and Density Support for sidechain routing and Pro Tools automation Integrated preset program switch for easy parameter adjustment, and lots of great presets! "Orange Vocoder is only the start of our cooperation together. We're very excited about what's coming from Prosoniq in 2001, including new creations unique to Pro Tools," remarks Ed Gray, Director of Digidesign's Partnering Programs. "Top developers like Prosoniq have the luxury to choose from a variety of audio processing platforms," he continues, "but TDM, RTAS and AudioSuite developers take advantage of an installed base and a technical and co-marketing support program that is unavailable anywhere else." Stephan Sprenger, Prosoniq's Director of Development says "Prosoniq's development activities will benefit more than ever from the technical capabilities of TDM and RTAS, and our new products will enjoy better technical and marketing and support than we've experienced in our history. Anyone familiar with Prosoniq's platform will know that we have no shortage of creative new ideas for audio processing products, and it's our intention to step up the pace even further for Pro Tools and Pro Tools LE." Orange Vocoder requires any Digidesign approved Mac OS based Pro Tools or Pro Tools LE system or higher and will be available soon from authorized Digidesign retailers. For more information, visit www.digidesign.com and www.prosoniq.com.

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