This release implements over 100 of the most frequently requested features from the professionals who use Studio Vision Pro. Some of the changes are major functional improvements, like full support for ProTools|24 in 24-bit mode and a stereo audio DSP menu. Other changes are more subtle, but result in unprecedented convenience.
Studio Vision Pro 4.0 is compatible with Pro|Tools 24 and its TDM support has also been significantly enhanced: You can record directly from anywhere in the TDM chain including from Sample Cell. The extensive DSP Menu is completely compatible with all audio files (mono, stereo, interleaved and linked pairs) and features a great Crossfades command (see Figure 1) to eliminate pops and clicks resulting from cutting and pasting different tracks together. The Premiere Plug-in architecture also accommodates stereo files. The new DSP Preferences dialog box allows you to set default naming and folder locations for any or all DSP functions. You can also easily
Studio Vision Pro 4.0 has an unsurpassed ability to work with a variety of audio formats. Bring digital audio directly into your tracks from .AIF, .AU, .WAV files, QuickTime movies or even standard audio CDs. Integrate drum loops, synth hits, ethnic percussion or vocal snippets from sample CDs, textures and ambience from sound effect CDs, audio files from the Internet or Windows PCs — Studio Vision Pro brings it all together.
The Tracks Overview section of the Tracks Window is a fast, intuitive way to arrange your music and generally view all your digital audio and MIDI tracks in one environment. In version 4.0, the "Strip Chart" (a graphic window borrowed from Studio Vision's Graphic Editing Window used to draw in edits for all MIDI parameters) is included under the Tracks Overview section and has really been beefed up. First of all, it's vertically scaleable (a long time feature request) making quick visual edits much more accurate. Secondly, it's applicable to multiple tracks (whatever tracks you select from the Tracks Overview window by "shift clicking"). And lastly, some new oscillating tools have been added
A new edit window has been added to the graphic, list, and notation edit windows: the Pulse Edit Window (see Figure 2). This is the perfect environment to compose drum and percussion tracks by painting rhythmic values onto a matrix display with a drawing tool called the "Magic Drumstick." You can even "paint-in" the velocity of each note by varying the height of the drum stick in the matrix. The Pulse Edit Window also gives you "single click" ability to send any sound to any device in your entire MIDI rig. All the above edit windows give you instant audio feedback with scrub and audition features, on-the-fly editing while your music is playing, and easy drag and drop editing with Studio Vision Pro's smart cursor that changes function automatically depending on what you want to do.
Studio Vision Pro 4.0's Play Quantize allows you to quantize your music on playback without affecting the original notes. There is a deep control of parameters to get exactly the feel you want out of each track. When you're done tweaking the feel of a track, you can save that quantize filter as your own custom "quantize template" which can be selected from a pop-up menu at any time. You can even apply different quantize filters to individual tracks. The Groove Quantize feature allows you to graft the feel of a huge variety of custom drum grooves to your own tracks. You can also create new quantizing grooves from new tracks.
Eliminate racks of effects and processing gear, cable spaghetti and patch bays. Once you record a digital audio track into Studio Vision Pro, it can stay digital right up until the sound comes out of your listener's speakers. Studio Vision Pro is compatible with an endless variety of Adobe Premiere, Audio Suite, and TDM Plug-ins. Also make sure you check out Opcode's new line of fusion: EFFECTS Plug-ins including fusion: VOCODE (and Fusion: VOCODE TDM), fusion: FILTER, and fusion: VINYL. In the area of input effects, version 4.0 features a new arpeggiator that can use the new playback quantize filters for its rhythm. Complete with up, down, random, alternate, and latch mode, this killer arpeggiator can run even when the sequence isn't playing. Everything you create with the arpeggiator can be recorded directly into Studio Vision Pro.
The integrated QuickTime Digital Video Window makes Studio Vision Pro 4.0 an excellent scoring tool for any moving picture project from feature films and documentaries to industrial videos and TV commercials. Import the QuickTime soundtrack right into Studio Vision Pro and edit and process it like any other digital audio. Video, MIDI and audio stay locked together with a single transport and will even scrub for frame-accurate placement of sound effects and music hits. Then export your movie with your new soundtrack, complete with added narration, music, sound effects, whatever — impressive! OMS (Open MIDI System) is the backbone of Studio Vision Pro's complete integration into even the most complex studios. Add an Opcode hardware interface like a Studio 5, Studio 64X, Studio 128X or Studio 64XTC to bring MIDI instruments, multitracks and video decks into your system. With total integration designed in, Studio Vision Need to know more? Just call your Sales Engineer for more information on all the great Opcode software plus your special low Sweetwater pricing. The Studio 128X is the latest product in Opcode's impressive cross-platform interface technology. As its name implies, it is a 128 MIDI channel, multiport interface that reads and writes all formats of longitudinal SMPTE. In fact, it incorporates some of the best features Opcode's best selling interfaces, the Studio 4 and 8 Port/SE, with a $70 price reduction to boot! It's fully cross-platform, so it connects to and works with both Macintosh and PC computers (it even automatically detects Mac or PC operation). There are 8 MIDI INs and 9 MIDI OUTs with support for 128 MIDI channels, plus a THRU port for easy modem or printer hookup. There's an integral MIDI Patchbay with 8 user programmable patchbay configurations selectable from the front panel or your computer or by a patch change. The 128X reads/writes all formats of SMPTE and converts to MTC and passes/routes MMC commands. You also get a Footswitch/Trigger Input and the ability to output Beat Clock as a master timing signal without a computer. The Studio 128 has a list price of $429, but call us here at Sweetwater for your special pricing right now. Master Index | Sweet Notes Index | Home | Back Page | Next Page |
On March 23rd 1998, Opcode Systems set a new industry standard of excellence for professional music and audio design with the release of Studio Vision Pro 4.0. Every aspect of music production — MIDI, CD-quality digital audio and QuickTime video — are integrated into one musical environment that's clear, powerful and easy to use.
Pro 4.0 will take you anywhere you want to go.