Waves and Galim Introduce AP24 PCI DSP Audio Processor

September 26, 1997 -- The newly formed Galim, Ltd. Signal Processing of Tel Aviv, Israel and Waves Ltd., the leading supplier of DSP software for the professional audio and multimedia markets, today announced the, AP24 DSP Audio Processor for both Windows and Macintosh PCI systems. The Galim AP24 PCI is a 24 bit audio card that comes with a select set of Waves DSP software plug-ins.

When the Waves Plug-Ins are run on the Galim AP24 PCI card the Plug-Ins run in realtime just like hardware processors. It makes for a beautiful marriage to provide the user with a single audio signal processing solution. Multiple processors may be run at the same time and the system may be expanded by adding more cards and Plug-Ins.

The AP24 DSP Audio Processor includes a select set of Waves Plug-ins including the Q10-Paragraphic Equalizer, World famous L1-Ultramaximizer, C1-Compressor/Gate, S1-Stereo Imager, TrueVerb, and the new PAZ-PsychoAcoustic. The host of the bundle is the Waves MultiRack application. MultiRack uses one or more DSP cards for realtime pass-through processing; each DSP can have more than one component Plug-In at the same time, such as EQ, compression and stereo imaging, all on a single chip. Complete Flex-chains (or patches) of Waves processors can be saved and loaded. A user may have multiple boards in machine, with Waves MultiRack running in background with workstations, digital sequencers, or as outboard gear for digital mixers, mastering systems, and more.

System features:

Edit, save and recall complete patches in realtime
Automatic DSP resource management
Supports standard MIDI control surfaces
Records and plays back 24, 16 or 8 bit SDII (MAC) and .WAV (PC) files
Two channels of I/O available for each card
Also uses Digidesign Audiomedia III cards to provide extra I/O channels and processing power. A/B comparisons and bypass for each processor, plus global bypass

The AP24 DSP Audio Processor will be available in first quarter 1998.

For more information, visit their web site at www.waves.com.