Make Surround Sound Discs for Home Theater using Minnetonka’s SurCode
October 17, 1999
Minnetonka Audio Software’s new SurCode can be used
to make Surround Sound disks for playback in home theater systems.
“Finally, the Surround Sound recording artist has a medium for distributing
their work,” said Minnetonka President John Schur. “SurCode lets the
artist take advantage of the fact that there are millions of home theater systems
already in place, with Surround Sound.”
SurCode for DTS ® Digital Surround accepts a Surround Sound mix as 6 .wav
files, from any source. SurCode creates a DTS-encoded file in a .wav format, which
can be burned onto a CD-R or CD-RW as an audio CD. This disc can then be played
on any home theater system that has a DTS decoder. DTS decoders have become a
standard on home theater equipment.
Minnetonka will also sell a version of SurCode for Dolby ® Digital. The
Dolby Digital encoder also accepts 6 .wav files, and can output either an .ac3
file or a Dolby-encoded .wav file.
A special interface to SurCode is built into Minnetonka’s Mx51 Surround
Sound Authoring program. When a Surround mix is completed, the project can be
submitted for conversion to a 6-track master, in a single step. In one more step,
the 6-track master can be submitted for DTS or Dolby encoding.
“Minnetonka is integrating the tools to make Surround mixing easy,”
says Schur. “Our goal is to eliminate all the confusion about how to work
with Surround Sound, and to get artists and recording engineers introduced to
the joys of Surround.
Projected ship date for SurCode for DTS Digital Surround is November 1999.
Price is $1995.
Projected ship date for SurCode for Dolby Digital is November 1999. Price
is $995.
Visit Minnetonka on the web at www.minnetonkaaudio.com.
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