Following an agreement between the companies to develop audio restoration products for the Soundscape range of digital audio workstations, CEDAR Audio is pleased to announce the launch of Declick for Soundscape.
Designed as a "plug-in" to run on existing Soundscape editors as well as the new REd system, Declick for Soundscape was launched five days ago at the PALA'99 Convention in Singapore, and demonstrated to dealers and prospective end-users on the Soundscape stand.
Declick for Soundscape has been designed to address the widest possible range of scratch and click removal problems, and combines two radically different declickers in a single, cost-effective package.
Auto declick restores most material, removing the vast majority of clicks from any audio signal. It does this automatically, identifying the damage, removing it, and filling the gap with the best possible estimate of the signal that existed before the click occurred.
Manual declick has been designed to eliminate the longer clicks and scratches that the Auto declick algorithm (which is optimised for standard clicks) can not handle adequately. It does this by allowing the user to identify the audio that constitutes the click, and then applying a restoration algorithm that is optimised for those longer clicks and scratches.
As with all CEDAR processes, the algorithms in Declick for Soundscape clearly differentiate between the degradation and the genuine signal, allowing transparent restoration of severely damaged material. Undamaged signal passes without any changes: there is no distortion, no loss of transients, and no loss of ambience.
Gordon Reid, CEDAR's Managing Director, was also at PALA and has the following to say of the new process. "I was away from CEDAR for the weeks leading up to the launch of Declick for Soundscape, so my first sight of the product was during Chris Wright's first demonstration in Singapore. I have to say that I was extremely pleased with everything I saw. The user interface - which is, of course, a combination of both CEDAR's and Soundscape's technologies - is extremely slick, and the audio results available using the combined 'Auto' and 'Manual' options are superb."
"After that demonstration, I was approached by a customer who was convinced that the presentation had been rigged. He firmly believed that there were pages and pages of parameters and waveforms that we had pre-set in some fashion. When I explained that there are no parameters whatsoever in Declick for Soundscape, he was astounded."
Declick for Soundscape is immediately available from Soundscape and its worldwide distributors. Furthermore, Soundscape Digital Technology will be appointing CEDAR's existing dealers who will also be able to supply and support the product.
