Surround Zone Plug-In Comes to Pro Tools
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September 27, 2004
SoundField has announced the new Surround
Zone plug-in for Digidesign's Pro Tools software on both Mac and PC
platforms.
The Surround Zone brings all the control of SoundField's
surround and stereo processing to the digital domain. It combines the
hardware features of both the SP451 surround processor and the MKV System
and is designed to accept the B-Format information generated by any of the
current SoundField microphone models.
A full surround recording can be captured using a single SoundField
microphone incorporating a patented multi-capsule array. Because the
microphone captures the sound at a 'single point', as opposed to multiple
spaced microphones, all channels are phase coherent. This enables
surround mixes to be collapsed back to stereo or mono without the loss of
vital audio information. Each microphone system outputs SoundField
B-Format, which is a three-dimensional snapshot of any acoustic event.
Once the SoundField B-Format is in the Digidesign environment, the plug-in
enables the user to generate various surround mic-arrays with variable polar
patterns. Specifically the Surround Zone provides a choice of three separate
5.1 arrays, individual 6.1 and 7.1 arrays, independently variable width of
both the front and rear pairs, phase coherent LFE and individual level
controls with mute and solo all with bargraph metering. The software also
provides additional control over the sound such as: Rotate - 360 degree
horizontal rotation; Tilt - adjust the microphone pick-up angle by plus or
minus 45 degrees in the vertical plane; and Zoom - zoom in on sound sources.
The Surround Zone can output mono, stereo, M/S, 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1.
In addition to the surround capabilities, also provided are simultaneous
stereo outputs. The stereo page features fully variable, graphically
displayed polar patterns, variable stereo width, variable high-pass filter
from 20Hz up to 250Hz, and mid/side encoded output.
Both the Surround Zone
software and SoundField Microphones can be purchased directly from
www.transaudioelite.com. Direct purchase price of the Surround Zone software is
$850.00 and combination price of the software and SoundField SPS422B
microphone is $5,200.00
MSRP: Surround Zone for Pro Tools: $1,062.50
If purchased with the SoundField SPS422B microphone: $6,500.00
For more information, visit their web site at www.soundfieldusa.com. | 
