Mx51^TM Surround Sound Authoring System Is Now Shipping

September 26, 1998 -- Minnetonka Audio Software is now shipping Version 1.0 of Mx51, the Authoring System for 5.1 Surround Sound.

Mx51 is an upgrade to MxTrax, and takes advantage of MxTrax's famous drag-and-drop mixer architecture. Mx51 adds Surround capabilities to the mixer, with automatic creation of a 5.1 bus, and Surround Panners available to every channel. Surround Panners can simply be dragged and dropped on any mixer channel, and are automatically connected into the 5.1 bus.

All Surround Panners can be automated. Movement of any Surround Panner can be automated, and played back with the audio. Surround Panner automation can be updated at any time, on the fly. The automated movent of all Surround Panners can be viewed simultaneously.

A SubBass crossover can be dropped on any channel. SubBass information can be extracted from the channel and sent to the subwoofer channel of the Surround bus. The crossover has an adjustable crossover frequency. Optionally, SubBass information can be removed from the sound going to the 5 Surround speakers.

The Surround Panners can be controlled by a mouse, or by Mx51's breakthrough Tactile Interface. Using the Microsoft Force Feedback joystick, the Tactile Interface lets you feel Surround Panning as you hear it.

When your Surround mix is completed, Mx51 has a feature for automatic creation of your 6-track master, either to hard disk or to tape (ADAT and DA-88).

The realtime mixing and routing features of Mx51 are made possible by running on the Digital Audio Labs V8 and using it's immense DSP processing power. This makes all the standard features of the V8 available to Mx51, including video sync and real-time 3rd party DSP plug-ins.

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