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Weve had multi channel PCI cards before, butmixtreme stands apart from all of themin that it offers the basis of a complete highquality audio system. The DSP is the key to thecards appeal, offering the ability to run theexcellent range of Soundscape Plug-ins with thesoftware you are already using.

Its time that an established and respectedcompany comes in and sets some standards.Who better than Soundscape to do it.

Chris Kempster. Editor.

The Mix. August 98

Soundscape Digital Technology has a long established reputation

for producing reliable products of exceptional sound quality, with

an attention to detail and customer support that is second to none.

You can rely on Soundscape for great performance and continued

development. We are continually promoting our products to Video

Editing Software companies and providing them with the tools toutilise the full performance benefit ofmixtreme and our other

products.

We invite you to talk with existing Soundscape DAW customers for

their comments about our commitment. They rely on us every day in

all kinds of professional environments and we always endeavor to

provide the best support available from any company. If you try to

buy a Soundscape DAW on the secondhand market, youll find that

few, if any, are available, testament to the high level of customer

satisfaction and loyalty that our policy generates.

Soundscape Digital Technology has many years experience in

producing reliable hardware and software for the PC and is the

premier provider of professional Digital Audio Workstations running

under Windows NT and Windows 95/98.

Audio Interfaces

Soundscape SS8IO-1

The SS8IO-1 8-Channel Audio Interface

is a professional 2U 19 rack

unit that provides 8 channels of

balanced inputs and outputs, with

XLR connections, using high-end

industry standard Crystal

Semiconductors AD/DA devices.

The audio performance is exceptional

and ADAT lightpipe or Fibre in/out,

programmable routing, plus presets

and 8 channel LED metering is

provided as standard.

Soundscape SS8IO-2

The SS8IO-2 Interface is a 1/2 rack

1U 19 unit offering 8 channel

TDIF to ADAT lightpipeconversion in both directions

(simultaneously), with

Wordclock/Superclock in/out

connectors. Clocks can also be

resolved from TDIF or ADAT inputs.

Soundscape SS8IO-3The SS8IO-3 Interface is a 1/2

rack 1U 19 unit with 8

channel TDIF to unbalanced

analogue inputs and outputs

(cinch/RCA connectors). AD/DA

converters are 20 bit and Wordclock

/Superclock in/out connections are

also provided as standard.

SS8IO-Rack

1U 19 mounting bracket for two SS8IO-2/3 units.

A PCI card with a future External Audio Interface

To convert the two mixtreme TDIF digital interfaces to 8 channel

analogue or ADAT lightpipe, there is a range of interface units to meet

every budget.


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INTERNATIONAL SALES: SOUNDSCAPE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED.Crichton House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, CF1 6DR, United Kingdom.

Tel: +44 1222 450120 Fax: +44 1222 450130 email:sales@soundscape-digi tal.com

USA SALES: SOUNDSCAPE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INC.

4478 Market Street. Suite 704, Ventura, CA 93003.

Tel: (805) 658 7375 Fax: (805) 658 6395 email:us-sal [email protected]

COPYRIGHT 1993 TO 1999 BY SOUNDSCAPE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SOUNDSCAPE IS A REGISTERED TRADE MARK OF SOUNDSCAPE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD. ANY OTHER TRADE MARKS MENTIONED ARE THE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS

S O U N D S C A P E D I G I T A L T E C H N O L O G Y L T D

mixtreme PCI Card

Motorola 56301 DSP for Mixing and Effects processing

16 channel, 24 bit digital I/O via 2 x 8 channel digital TDIF

(Tascam Digital Interface) ports (25 way SubD connectors)

Wordclock/Superclock In/Out (Cinch/RCA connectors)

Optional S/PDIF In/Out board - plugs into main PCI card

Optional Video Sync board - plugs into main PCI card

Internal sample clock - 10kHz to 50kHz

Locks to Wordclock from either TDIF port or External input

(or to 256 x Superclock)

mixtreme (V2) Mixer software

Multimedia Drivers for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT4

ASIO drivers for Windows 95/98 and NT4

Technical Specification

Distributed by:

internet:http://www.soundscape-digital.com

Aaron Stipko Stipkovich,

Composer

Dimension Sound, Burbank

Serafine FX, Venice, CA

Ive found the sound quality of the SSHDR1-Plus tobe fat and warm, and the useability of the interface tobe quick and powerful. No daw compares.

Aaron Stipko Stipkovich

Producer/Composer

Ks Choice, Chumbawamba, Bloodhound

Gang, 311, Mayfield (Curt Smith),

Viper - The TV series, Tantrum, The

Sentinel, Solomon, & ILL Repute.

We had the pleasure of using Soundscape for

sound editing on Ace Ventura: When Nature

Calls and The Nutty Professor and found it to

be very smooth, very fast and very reliable.

Soundscape is the only intelligent choice for

your next digital editing workstation.

Odin Benitez, Randall Guth,

Dimension Sound (Burbank).

Its affordable-its modular-its expandable-its

got crash proof reliability!!! We have 3 x 16

track systems at the studio, and weve used the

SSHDR1-Plus on almost every project thats

come through the facility. Soundscape is fast

becoming one of the top systems around in

digital audio post production here as well as

around the world. Keep it up. guys!

Frank Serafine, Sound designer on

Star Trek The Motion Picture,

Virtuosity, Lawnmower Man, VR5,

Hunt for Red October.

Dolby Surround Encoder/Decoder Plug-in

The plug-in is the result of collaboration between Dolby Labs andSoundscape Digital Technology and licenses Dolbys DSP code, developed

for the Motorola 56301 DSP used in the mixtreme Mixer environment.The Dolby Surround Encoder/Decoder Plug-in which is available exclusively from Soundscape DigitalTechnologys International Distributors and Dealers includes a separate 4 channel to stereo encoderand a stereo to 4 channel decoder and includes elements for Surroundchannel strips and Surround Panners in the mixtreme mixer.Dolby Surround is a phase-matrix encode/decode process that makes itpossible for regular stereo program sources to carry four channels ofinformation. Originally developed as a sound-with-picture format, the

channels are configured with three across the front (Left, Center, Right) anda fourth (Surround) reproduced by speakers to the sides and rear of thelistening area.Because Dolby Surround soundtracks are specially encoded during productionand then decoded on playback, producers can control the placement andmovement of sounds in a way that creates a remarkably realistic listening experience. Dolby Surroundsoundtracks also create a wider, more enveloping soundfield even when played in normal stereo.With tens of millions of playback systems in homes worldwide and a multitude of encoded films andTV programs available to the consumer Dolby Surround has become the standard for high-qualitysurround audio.

With millions of home theaterand multimedia systems

equipped for Dolby Surroundplayback, the demand forsurround-encodedprogramming is skyrocketing.Thanks to the Dolby Surround

Encoder/Decoder plug-in, you can now produce DolbySurround mixes for videos, TV shows, ad spots, multimedia,CDs and video games entirely within a Soundscape DAW orMixtreme environment.The Dolby Surround Encoder/Decoder makes surround mixingfar more efficient for the Mixtreme user as D-to-A and A-to-Dconversions are no longer needed, and the Dolby Surroundencoding and decoding processes match those of the industrystandard Dolby Model SEU4 and SDU4 units.As well as mixing Dolby Surround soundtracks for consumermedia, the Dolby Surround Encoder/Decoder Plug-in also

makes it possible to preview the results of the Dolby Surroundprocess (4-2-4 monitoring) on discrete four-channel audiotracks (L,C,R,S), that will subsequently be taken to a filmmixing stage and encoded along with other soundtrackelements. This 4-2-4 monitoring capability is a vital assetto any facility that regularly supplies four-channel soundeffects or music recordings for theatrical film productions.Furthermore, your clients will be able to take full marketingadvantage of the renowned Dolby Surround trademark ontheir productions and packaging, with an easy-to-obtain,royalty-free license from Dolby Laboratories.The Dolby Surround Encoder/Decoder Plug-in will help yousurround your clients - and their audiences - with the fastest-growing multichannel technology.


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SOUNDSCAPE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD

Multi Channel Audio PCI Cardand Mixing System for Video Workstations


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Since 1993 Soundscape Digital Technology has provided professional Digital Audio Workstations to the Music, Film and Broadcast markets for recording and editing. The

award winning SSHDR1-Plus system was used by many of the worlds top sound designers on such movies as The Hunt for Red October, Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls, The

Nutty Professor etc. The system has also been used for producing the music for Video games like Tomb Raider 2&3, Warhammer 2-Dark Omen, Croc and G-Police 2,

Documentaries, Drama, TV Sitcoms/Shorts and Advertising.

With this kind of experience in the sound for picture field, we soon realised that users increasingly demand better audio performance from their video editing systems. Now

Soundscape Digital Technology has created an unbeatable combination of hardware and mixing software for Video Editing Applications - mixtreme .

The mixtreme Audio Card provides a massive 16 audio channels of 24 bit digital input and output and has powerful 24 bit customisable digital mixing and real-time

optional audio effects plug-ins like Equalisation (EQ), Reverb, Dynamics control and Surround Sound Processing. With Multimedia drivers for Windows NT and Windows

95/98, mixtreme can be used with most

Video Capture Cards and a wide range Video

Editing systems.

The mixtreme card is inserted into a spare

PCI card slot in your PC and the mixing software is

quick and easy to install. Two external professional

Soundscape Audio Interfaces can be added,

providing up to 16 channels of Audio in and out

with high quality balanced XLR connectors.

Alternatively you can connect the two TDIF

connectors (Tascam Digital Interface - the standard

24 bit interface for the latest audio mixers and

recorders) directly to a digital console or Tascam

DA-88. There are other external converters

available for ADAT users, unbalanced audio

connections and fibre optic digital devices.

The Soundscape mixtreme 16 Channel PCI Card

mixtreme is friendly to the rest of your studio too. You

can hook up your VTR inputs and outputs, Timecode DAT,

NAGRA or Tascam DA88, using any number of Pre/Post sends

and place additional channel strips in the mixer to mix the

return signal. Every element in the mixer is a plug-in that you

can place exactly where required, which means that you can

record to disk with EQ, a compressor or other acoustic effect.

Recording a voiceover through mixtreme with dynamics

and EQ can help to give your productions a professional sound

quality that normally requires time in a top audio studio. You

can even use the mixtreme real-time effects to remove

hum and noise from badly recorded audio clips or to decode

audio recorded in M&S format into L/R stereo. All effects

settings and the entire mixer configuration can be saved and

loaded from a PC file, so you never need to lose that perfect

i ki d !

Powerful Motorola 56301DSP (Digital Signal Processor)for Mixing and effects

The mixtreme Advantage

mixtreme has a powerful on-board Motorola DSP (Digital Signal Processor)

instead of having to use the Pentium CPU in the PC for audio processing, so that it takes

almost no power from your video application. You get the benefit of separate digital

audio input/output channels for Surround Mixing, digital mixing and routing with total

recall, and real time effects, all running simultaneously with your video editing software.

External analogue or digital devices can be mixed with tracks from your video editing

software by configuring a mixer that fits with exactly what you need. You can have one

mixer for track laying, lay-offs from tape and recording. One for 5.1 Surround Mixing

and one for lay-back to tape, all which can be loaded instantly!

Wordclock/Superclockor Video Sync In/Out

PCI BUS

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The fully configurable Soundscape V2 Mixer comes

bundled with the card and was originally designed for

Soundscapes award winning SSHDR1-Plus Digital

Audio Workstation. Released in 1993, this high end

Audio Post System is used today by thousands of top

sound designers and industry professionals in Music

Soundtrack Recording, Dialogue Replacement, Foley

and Dubbing.

Right now you can have a 24 bit, 16 in/out, 16 bus

virtual digital mixer at your fingertips running

simultaneously with your video editing software on the

same PC, with the additional advantage of optional

high-end DSP effects plug-ins from some of the worlds

leading names in audio. Effects like Surround

Encoding & Decoding, Compressors, Expanders,

Gates, Limiters, Delays, Chorus/Flangers, Reverbs and

fully parametric Equalization are all available now.

And there are many other plug-ins in development

from the industrys top audio companies including:-

Noise Reduction, Spectral Enhancement, multi-effectsand many others.

The mixtreme mixer has a completely user

definable channel structure and routing. You can

easily create and save your own mixes (e.g. M&S

Decoding) and the entire configuration of the mixer

plus all parameter settings are stored in the mixer file,

so it is truly total recall. Each channel can have any

number of real time processes running (e.g.

Equalisation, acoustic treatment, normalising etc.)

limited only by the available processing power on the

mixtreme card.

In fact you could have up to 64 audio channels running

simultaneously with multiple mixtreme cards.

24 bit Digital Mixing Brand new audio effects designed by market leaders toperform to the highest levels!

Input Assign

(VTR1, DAT/CD, MIC. etc.)

Parametric Equalizer

(Sweetening, removes camera noise, simulates effects likeTelephone or Radio etc.)

Send Function

(Sends Audio to the Dialogue or Foley Room)

Level Clipping Meter

Chorus/Flanger

(Creates wacky effects for sound design)

Compressor/Limiter/Dynamics

(Compensates for off axis microphone movement, levels dialogue

and prevents overload, optimizes hot levels or broadcast level

audio back to tape)

Reverb or Acoustic Treatment Plug-in

(Makes the dialogue or other audio source sound like its in a

cave, toilet, shed church etc.)

Pan Function

For Surround Panning

Volume Level Fader

Compatible PC running e.g. Speed RAZOR DV, withmixtreme mixer, effects, routing, equalization,

Acoustic Treatment, Surround Mixing etc.

MIC 1

MIC 2

DAT/CD

VTR1 IN

VTR2 IN

Audio to mixtreme and intocompatible PC using MME Drivers

SURROUND MIX

STERR OUTPUT

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The Equalisation (EQ) Plug-in allows the editor to select a range of frequencies

on an audio track i.e.Bass, Mid, Treble and boost them or reduce/cut them. For

example high frequency camera noise on the audio tracks can be dramatically

reduced or removed by selecting that range of high frequencies and cutting them.

You can change the audio bandwidth to make it sound like youre listening to the

radio or to simulate a telephone call, or create a rumbling bass on explosions or

car engines. This feature is standard in the software.

The Audio Toolboxis anoptional set of audio effects elements

and includes a Chorus/Flanger,

Digital Delay and a Dynamics

Processor with Gate, Expander,

Compressor and Limiter functions.

The Chorus/Flanger canproduce anything from a slight

thickening or phasing of a sound.

Flanging is at the extreme end of the

control range, with large pitch changes,

delay variations and amazing stereo

width and movement - great for Sound

Design, alien voices etc..

The Dynamics Processorconsists of four main real

time processors.

1. Noise Gate - Allows realtime gating of the signal to remove

any low-level background noise on

audio tracks and is useful for

dialogue editing or ducking

backgrounds.

2. Expander - This has similar operation to that of a noise gate, but has aratio setting which determines the slope of the cut-off. Instead of total silence

the level can smoothly increase to allow a gentle build into the new sound. This

can be used for higher levels of background noise removal, such as tape hiss or

Air Con noise etc.

3. Three Node Compressor - A compressor is very useful forproduction sound recorded on a sound stage. The Actors voices can be

compressed at a particular level, a door slamming in the background can have

another higher setting to prevent loud bangs etc. on the dialogue tracks.

4. Limiter - The Limiter makes sure that the audio signal never exceeds agiven level, useful for optimizing broadcast levels during lay-back to tape.

The DelayPlug-in which is includedin the Audio Toolbox, provides Long,

Medium or Short delays or fading echo

which sounds similar to the effect of

shouting in a cave or in the mountains.

Plug-in Effects

TC ReverbThe superb TC Reverb Plug-in delivers high quality acoustic treatment exclusively

for mixtreme users. The Plug-in features an intuitive user interface with a

graphical approach to parameter control: graphs visualize the settings and make

it much faster & easier to get the desired result.

TC DynamizerFrom the makers of the industry standard TC Finalizer studio mastering

processor, comes an all new approach to setting broadcast levels. This plug-inenables you to increase the energy of the audio tracks without exceeding

broadcast levels.

Integrated multi-band expansion

Compression and limiting

Streamlined, highly graphical approach to dynamics processing

All unnecessary guesswork taken out of setting broadcast levels

Automatically processes the audio tracks substantially faster with desired

results easier to achieve!

The Reverb Modulefrom Wave Mechanics Inc. is a

top quality Acoustic Treatmentmodule which adds natural

ambience or sparkling digital

effects to your recorded audio.

This Plug-in features over 60

presets from categories such as:

Ambience Effects, Delays and

other oddities, Gated Reverbs, Large Halls and other Large Spaces, Medium

Rooms and Chambers, Plates and Small Room Reverbs.

APHEX AURAL EXCITER TYPE IIIComing soon from Aphex Systems Ltd is the Aural Exciter Type 3 and Big

Bottom Pro Plug-Ins exclusively formixtreme

. Since 1975, the AuralExciter has improved thousands of recordings by bringing more clarity, detail, air

and presence. Big Bottom works at the other end of the spectrum by adding

low end presence and punch without adding peak level. A must have Plug-in for

all mixtreme users.

A must have Plug-in for all mixtreme users.

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