Waves Announces Waves V8 Pack
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Trueverb Real-Time Reverb
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C1 Compressor
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April 7, 1997 Waves, the most prominent of the recording industry's new software based
signal processing plug-in developers, has announced support for the Digital
Audio Labs V8 workstation platform for the PC. Their new Waves V8 Pack
plug-in bundle will allow V8 owners to run Waves' C1 compressors, Q10
EQ's, S1 Stereo Imagers, L1 Ultramaximizers, and Trueverb reverbs in real
time and with full automation on the V8's DSP Supercharger modules.
The Waves V8 Pack plug in modules, which rival dedicated hardware components in audio quality with the flexibility of a software interface, can be dropped onto multiple V8 mixer channels or stacked on a single channel. Realtime processing may be performed on both hard disk tracks and external channels alike, with full dynamic automation of all plug-in parameters. Also, the same plug-ins are available to all V8 "Gearhead Approved" applications, such as MxTrax from Minnetonka Software and Cakewalk Pro Audio from Cakewalk Music Software.
"This is a revolution in price/performance in this product category." said Jeff Wilson, "V8/Waves combination capable of this amount and quality of real time audio processing." Alon Zacai, Managing Director of Waves, is also enthusiastic about the new platform's possibilities; "With the V8, we're finally able to bring real time, multichannel audio processing to our PC based customers."
The V8 is a set of cards and rack mount peripherals that turns a PC into a multichannel digital audio recording, editing, and mixing studio. A fully loaded V8 system is capable of up to 16 channels of disk playback, 16 channels of I/O, and over 300 MIPS of DSP processing. Software to operate the V8 is available entirely from third party application and plug-in developers. System pricing for the V8 starts at $2500.
For more information, visit their web site at www.waves.com. |
