SADiE 6 Includes Expanded Audio Effects By iZotope

September 13th, 2010 by Janice Brown

In a deal announced at IBC in Amsterdam over the weekend, Prism Sound’s new SADiE 6 systems will include a customized and expanded audio effect feature set powered by iZotope technology.

Pictured (l-r): iZotope President Mark Ethier with Alex Westner, SADiE's Peter Nash and Prism Sound Sales Director Graham Boswell at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam.

The iZotope bundle, customized for SADiE 6, will include:

-Reverb
-Chorus & Flanger
-Analogue Delay
-Phaser
-Pitch-Shift
-Parametric EQ
-Single-Band Compressor
-Multiband Compressor-Simple Mastering (including EQ, reverb, exciter, widener, loudness maximize)

These nine VST plug-ins make use of SADiE 6’s extended VST capabilities and are in addition to the existing on-board EQ’s, dynamics, aux sends, M/S decoder width control Graphic EQ and Mastering Limiter. All SADiE 6 systems also come with SADiE’s own Hi-dither tools, with the Sound Suite and Mastering Suite packages including Prism Sound’s Super Noise Shaping dither tools.

As of IBC, Prism Sound had released SADiE 6 with initial availability to major broadcasters. The second phase will be to existing SADiE users who have pre-ordered an upgrade to SADiE 6 and this is expected to begin later in September, followed a little later by full availability.

SADiE 6 runs on Windows computers using a soundcard such as the Prism Sound Orpheus or the built-in unit, or one of the low-latency SADiE Series 5 hardware solutions.

These technologies by Prism Sound and SADiE are designed for and used primarily in: Radio drama and documentary production; Television and Film sound post production; Location sound recording; Broadcast and recording trucks for live events; Studio and field-based recording; and Mastering Studios.