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Arboretum Unveils New Ionizer Frequency Morphing

September 26, 1998 -- Arboretum Systems today presented the first demonstration of a groundbreaking new audio technology which allows one to literally steal the equalization curves from any recording. Forget about sampling...Welcome to the age of Frequency Morphing.

Imagine taking the spectral characteristics - the "sound" - of any piece of audio, and mapping that frequency curve to any other sound. So that you're readjusting the various frequency levels along the spectrum of the second sound to match those of the first. And imagine doing this almost instantaneously.

Analyze the mix of your favorite record with the touch of a button, then use the new Ionizer Frequency Morph function to create filter curves that will give other recordings those same overall EQ characteristics. Or apply the sonic fingerprints of instrumental samples, ambiences, sound effects or voices to any other audio source.

Ionizer Frequency Morphing is far different from conventional morph or convolution processes; its a way of emulating the sonic characteristics of a recording, rather than merging the actual content. Ionizer's Morph feature has profound implications for key audio production processes including sound design, mixing and mastering.

Originally conceived as a separate product (code-named Octander) Arboretum's proprietary frequency morphing technology will appear in the upcoming Ionizer 1.3 upgrade later this year.

A Power Mac-native application, Ionizer is a multiband dynamic processor which offers fast spectral analysis and 512 bands of gated EQ per channel. It can be utilized for dynamic noise reduction, equalization, limiting, compression and expansion, all at 32-bit floating point internal precision. Ionizer's noise reduction out-performs all comparable products in terms of the sheer sound quality which can be achieved. Ionizer includes special controls which eliminate the chirps, flanging and ringing artifacts associated with other NR products.

Unlike other analog and digital EQs, Ionizer's linear phase filters offer equalization that is entirely free of phase distortion. And Ionizer is completely user-configurable, allowing applications such as limiting the low end, expanding the midrange and compressing the high end all in a single pass.

Ionizer operates as a plug-in effect within any MacOS Premiere-compatible audio application, including Adobe Premiere, Macromedia DECK II, Opcode Vision/StudioVision/Studio Vision Pro, MOTU Digital Performer, Bias Peak, Emagic Logic Audio, Cakewalk Metro 4 and Gallery TurboMorph. Ionizer also is a plug-in for the Digidesign AudioSuite format. Upon installation in the DAE Plug-ins folder it may be used in Digidesign Pro Tools and Emagic Logic Audio, as well as the Avid Media Composer 7.0 and Avid Xpress 2.0 non-linear video editing systems.

Ionizer will additionally run in a stand-alone mode on any Power Macintosh through Arboretum's HyperEngine shell. Ionizer works with the Mac built-in audio hardware, includes special direct support for Audiomedia II and III and the 1212I/O and also will run on other Mac sound cards with appropriate Sound Manager drivers. Audiomedia III and Pro Tools 24-bit hardware users can take advantage of their systems' full capabilities with Ionizer, so as to process 24-bit digital signals at the highest possible resolution.

Developed by Arboretum's Chief Technical Officer Chris Weare, Ph.D., Ionizer is manufactured and distributed by Arboretum Systems, Inc., a privately-held California firm. Ionizer version 1.2.6 is now shipping at a suggested U.S. retail price of $399.00, international pricing may vary. Ionizer Frequency Morph functions will be released with the Ionizer 1.3 upgrade shipping later in 1998.

More information may be obtained from: www.arboretum.com.