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This collected knowledge page provides downloadable user manuals, documentation and white papers along with links to pertinent user forums. Table of Contents Installers Our Download page contains links to downloadable installers for our registered customers. MORE… This included installers for legacy products. 3rd Party Compatibility Our Compatibility page provides a list of 3rd party products that are compatible with Sonic Studio’ range. MORE… Documentation Downloads This page contains documentation and technical information, including user manuals, available for download. Information on the following products are available…
DDP–Friendly Replicators Optical disc replicators worldwide accept DDP file sets as replication masters, without surcharges or additional fees. MORE… FAQ Already own a Sonic Studio product and have a question? Our Frequently Asked Questions page covers common questions and solutions. StudioCare — Information & Ordering For more information on StudioCare and to download an order form, please see our Support page. User Forums For street–wise information from end users worldwide, see below… Premastering Metadata For information on creating checksums for your replication–ready project, as well as links to the organizations that control ISR Codes & UPC/EAN codes, see below… Compatibility Listing For Information concerning 3rd party hardware & software interoperability with Sonic Studio products, see below… “How–To”s, Utilities, Technical Articles & White Papers For technical articles from Dr. J.A. Moorer & O.A. Masciarotte, see below…
PreMaster CD PreMaster CD — 2.0 Documentation
Package (2.1 MB ZIP) soundBlade soundBlade — 1.2
Documentation Package , includes User Manual, ReadMe, How to Register
and Keyboard Shortcuts (3.5 MB ZIP) Series 300 Model 302 Two Channel — 1.3
User Manual (PDF) Documentation DSD.1 — 1.0
User Manual (PDF) General Information SACD Format – Super
Audio CD Technical
Overview of the Format & Production Workflow Sony DACD Sony DACD’s Super Audio CD page has download links to their Super Audio CD Text Editor and Manual and a CM Converter. The CM Converter is used to generate UCMF (Unified Cutting Master Format) images from either Sony or Philips CM (Cutting Master) tapes. CM tapes are AIT data tapes used for SACD replication. PACE iLok USB Smart Key iLok – www.ilok.com reNOVAtor by Algorithmix reNOVAtor – Pro Tools Mac 1.1
User Manual SonicStudio•DDP SonicStudio•DDP — 2.0
Installation Guide General Information SonicStudio•DDP — 2.0 Facts & Features (PDF) Documentation SonicStudio HD — 1.9.1 Release Notes Compatibility SonicStudio HD — 1.8 Configuration Guide Documentation Documentation, white papers, and configuration guides for prior versions of Sonic Studio are provided "as is," without guarantees as to accuracy. SonicStudio — 5.2
Release Notes Documentation A DVD-Audio helper application from Sonic Solutions OneClick DVD — User Manual Documentation n•code — 1.0 User Manual User Forums Music at Virginia Tech We encourage all users to subscribe to the excellent Sonic Studio Users Group listserve hosted by the gracious folks at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech — Sonic Studio Discussion Forum The Mastering WebBoard We encourage all users engaged in the noble craft of mastering to subscribe to Glen Meadows’ engaging and informative Mastering WebBoard. Premastering Metadata Checksums for DDP Whenever you use an insecure or uncertain transport medium for digital files, whether it's the internet or a writable optical disc, you never know when your data may be corrupted. A quick and easy solution to this problem is to generate a checksum for your precious files. Often used as a way of verifying the integrity or authenticity of a file copy, a checksum is a sort of digital “fingerprint” that, when read and compared to a known good example, can inform you of errors or tampering during transport. Using the Terminal’s MD5 feature Mac OS 10’s command line interface, the Terminal,
includes an MD5 checksum implementation. As the
man page says, “MD5
takes as input a message of arbitrary length
and produces as output a To use the Terminal’s MD5 function, first ZIP the entire folder containing your DDP file set by control or right–clicking on the folder and selecting Finder’s Create Archive of… option. Rename the file so it has only a “.zip” extension. Then, launch Terminal and type “md5 ” at the prompt. Note the space after "md5”…Then, drag and drop the ZIP file onto the Terminal window and hit the return key. If you did things correctly, you should see something like: MD5 (/Volumes/ExplicitPath/DDP.zip) = checksum where ExplicitPath is the path to the ZIP’d DDP file and checksum is a very long string of numbers and letters. Copy that resulting checksum string, paste it into a plain text file, and save that file with the name “CHECKSUM.txt” — making sure before hand that the file is a plain text, ASCII file. Send both the CHECKSUM.txt file and the ZIP'd DDP file set to your replication plant. For a graphical UI version of the Terminal’s MD5 function, see md5app in the Free & Useful Utilities section of our Downloads page. ISR Codes (ISRC) ISR Codes are controlled by the IFPI. UPC/EAN UPC/EAN codes are controlled by the GS1, formerly the Uniform Code Council. Compatibility Coming soon…Information on 3rd party hardware and software compatibility as well as the most recent information on sound drives, CD-R, and CPU compatibility with Sonic Solutions/SonicStudio 5.4. • Note that Sonic Studio, LLC is not able to provide further support or compatibility testing for older versions of SonicStudio. “How
To”s,
Utilities & Tech Talk Utilities Validate Preferences – An executable script for Mac OS 10 that runs the “plutil” command in Terminal. The plutil command checks the syntax of property list or plist files. To use this utility, simply download and unzip the “Validate_Prefs.command” file , then double click on it. Papers by Dr. James A. Moorer 48-Bit Integer Processing Beats 32-Bit Floating Point — Presented at the 107th AES Convention, September 1999, Preprint Number 5038 (L-3) A Native Stereo Editing System for Direct Stream Digital — A. Nishio & Y. Ogura, co–authors. Presented at the 104th AES Convention, May 1998 Hard Disk Recording and Editing of Digital Audio — Presented at the 89th AES convention, September 1990, Preprint Number 3006 (K-6) Music Recording in the Age of Multichannel — Presented at the 103rd AES Convention, September 1997, Preprint Number 4623 (F-5) Breaking the Sound Barrier: Mastering at 96 kHz and Beyond — Presented at the 101st AES Convention, November 1996, Preprint Number 4357 (I-2) New Audio Formats: A Time of Change, and a Time of Opportunity — Written in the mid 1990’s… Towards a Rational Basis for Multichannel Music Recording — J.H. Vad, co–author. Presented at the 104th AES Convention, May 1998 Whither Dither: Experience with High–Order Dithering Algorithms — J.C. Wen, co–author. Presented at the 95th AES convention, October 1993, Preprint Number 3747 (B3-AM-3) Papers by OMas Mac OS Basics — A compendium of technical tips & tricks for Mac OS users who want to get “under the hood.” |
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