SPL and CreamWare Bring Transient Designer to SCOPE Platform

October 1, 1999 -- SPL's famous Transient Designer is soon available for the Pulsar/SCOPE platform. Within a close cooperation of developers, SPL and CreamWare developed a perfect digital model of the Transient Designer process that, for the first time, brings the full quality of the originally analog unit to the digital domain.

"We were totally amazed to hear the results of the SCOPE implementation on basis of the SHARC DSPs - no doubt, we heard and tested the first digital Transient Designer that sounds and works just like our traditionally analog circuitry. We're thrilled to see what other things become possible working with CreamWare and their SCOPE technology", comments Hermann Gier, Managing Director of SPL. Frank Hund, Managing Director of CreamWare states "We're proud to have SPL on board our platform, their unique products and techniques are of great value for our users as they are for any serious audio engineer."

The Transient Designer utilizes SPL's "Differential Envelope Techology" (DET(TM)) and allows threshold-independent dynamic processing that enables sound engineers to gain direct control about attack and sustain of audio signals. The Transient Designer is being used by many top engineers to increase or decrease dynamic punctuation and presence of percussive audio signals. SPL now releases two affordable versions of their Transient Designer technology, specially designed for CreamWare's Pulsar DSP card.

The "Attacker" module (US$ 69) allows increasing attack of percussive signals and can drastically improve the "punch" of drums, loops and guitar signals. The "Transient Designer" module (US$ 249) offers both increase and decrease of attack and sustain. Both licenses allow simultaneous processing of four audio channels. Release of both products is expected within October 1999.

For more information, visit CreamWare on the web at www.creamware.com.