Steinberg Releases Apogee's MasterTools with UV22

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September 26, 1998 -- Steinberg North America today announced the release by Steinberg of Apogee's MasterTools(TM) mastering software package with proprietary UV22 word-length reduction feature for Digidesign® TDM system.

Apogee's MasterTools TDM PlugIn had previously only been available for the Digidesign Pro Tools(TM) system. Under a licensing agreement, Steinberg took over the development of the product on the Pro Tools platform, releasing a version for Pro Tools 24(TM), as well as porting the new MasterTools UV22 over to Steinberg's VST(TM), WaveLab(TM) and for the Microsoft standard DirectX platform as well, making it available on both Macintosh and PC computer systems.

MasterTools features Apogee's UV22(TM), the word-length reduction system most favored by mastering engineers -- over eight out of ten hit records in the US are mastered with the system -- which takes a high-resolution signal, such as a 24-bit recording, and flawlessly translates it into the 16-bit signal required for DAT, CD and other mastering applications. The noise floor remains at the theoretical 16-bit level yet, as with an analog recording, you can hear additional detail "through" the noise floor. MasterTools UV22 includes a wealth of additional tools for mastering, including "over" protection and logging against timecode, a unique 3D historical metering system, and individual channel mutes, phase and stereo reverse.

The Apogee MasterTools UV22 PlugIn is now available for TDM at a MSRP US$799.

For more information, visit their web site at www.steinberg.net.