Press Release September 20 1999: WaveWarp 1.1 now shipping

Sounds Logical is pleased to announce the release of WaveWarp V1.1. WaveWarp is the ultimate object-oriented real-time audio effects tool for Windows. With over 250 modular components, WaveWarp transforms your PC into a powerful and versatile effects design platform. Key software features:

• Object-oriented modular architecture with over 250 real-time DSP components running native on the PC under Windows 95/98/NT. No DSP hardware required.

• Supports all Windows-compatible soundcards (with WAV drivers).

• Supports multiple soundcards with multiple channels (e.g. for building surround sound effects from scratch).

• Sample-by-sample execution of all components allowing arbitrary connections in series, parallel, feedforward, and feedback networks.

• Multirate engine supports "on-the-fly" sample rate conversion between components.

• Wide range of complete audio effect components plus basic building blocks including filters, delays, mixers, de-noisers, spectral transformers, signal generators, reverbs, phasers, flangers, chorus, modulators, dynamic range controllers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and many more.

• Supports 8-, 16-, 20-, 24-, and 32-bit WAV files of any sample rate.

• Controllable playback functionality for manipulating audio file playback pointers in real-time (e.g. for creating granular synthesisers from scratch).

• ASCII file interfaces for digital filters, wavetables, noise spectrum templates, envelope functions, etc, enabling the importing off-line designs for total flexibility.

• Includes a suite of matlab m-files for convenient import/export of digital filters, wavetables, envelopes functions, etc.

• Includes digital displays, waveform oscilloscopes and spectrum analysers for signal visualisation.

• Extensive on-line help plus a wide range of Example DrawingBoards. WaveWarp is geared to the the audio engineer, musician, sound designer, or educator who demands complete creative control of the effect environment.