i3 DSP-Quattro v1.0 released

DSP-Quattro v1.0, formerly D-SoundPRO 4.0, is a powerful sound editor for Mac OS and, soon, OS X. "DSP-Quattro, backed by D-SoundPRO ten-year long experience in the digital audio editor field, inserts the new dimension of real-time into the world of audio editors, turning your computer into a professional audio workstation for music production, plug-in hosting and audio editing for writing files ready to be mastered."

Main features:

• AIFF, SDII and .WAV mono/stereo sound files direct load/save support: 8, 16, 24, 32 and 32-floats bit/sample (the last allowed only for WAVE and AIFF file formats).
• RAW data files Import/Export (8, 16, 24, 32 and 32-Floats bits/sample).
• Import, by using QuickTime, of most audio file formats, including MP3, audio tracks from QuickTime movies and Audio CDROMs, and more.
• Advanced HD based High Speed audio engine, to play any audio files forward and backward, at every speed, without loading them in RAM memory.
• Plays audio files at pitches ranging from 0 to x2, including a speed ribbon controller interface. Audio scrub mode with audio monitoring. Reverse playback supported as well.
• Complete list of editing functions, most of which have a real time preview option for the best parameters setting.
• Zooms and visual tools, the state of art in graphic visual interface for audio editing.
• Left or Right independent channel editing of stereo files.
• Generic and Edit Markers support, with floating window interface for their management.
• Infinite levels of Undo/Redo
• Complete Undo/Redo history table, to immediately jump back to any moment of the editing session.
• High quality built-in digital effects, applicable both as real time effects on audio insert, and as an off-line editing algorithm:
  • Chorus
  • Digital Delay
  • Dual Digital Delay
  • Stereoizer
  • MultiTap Delay
  • Reverbs
  • Resonant analog LowPass, HighPass, BandPass filter simulations
  • BandReject filter
  • 4 Bands full parametric EQ
  • 7 Bands graphic mono and stereo EQ
• BPM tempo based Auto-Detection, Auto-Loop and TimeStretching algorithms.
• Resampling, Pitch Conversion, Normalization, multiple Fade In/Out features.
• Drag&Drop support for fast loading, saving and exporting even regions of the audio files.
• Advanced floating window interface for Loop programming,
• X-Fade Looping algorithm fully programmable with real time preview.
• Multiple VST Instruments and Effects hosting, for both real time live performances and off-line editing.
• Apple SoundManager fully compatible.
• ASIO fully supported, to address also multiple analog and digital inputs and outputs at the same time.
• Very easy to configure as Real time multi-effects unit, including ASIO or SoundManager Inputs to Outputs redirections.
• Full OMS MIDI drivers support.
• Very easy to configure to play multiple - also at the same time - VSTi Instruments by MIDI, also for live performances.
• Innovative Recording options, to record multiple inputs and outputs on HD in real time, while also playing Plug-in Instruments by MIDI and/or audio files.
• Akai, E-mu, Kurzweil, Roland, Yamaha and SMDI SCSI sample dump (including samples directory) support.
• MIDI SAMPLE DUMP STANDARD (SDS) and S50, S550, S330 MIDI sample dump support

• Costs €99 EURO
• OS X version due in February.
• Demo version available.

NOTE: This demo version of DSP-Quattro is for MacOS 8.6 / 9.x ONLY. Please do not
run it under the 'Classic' mode of MacOS X. A DSP-Quattro DEMO for MacOS X
will be available for download in February.