Press Release January 15 2000: WaveWarp 1.2 now shipping

WaveWarp Version 1.2 featuring real-time multichannel live audio input is now shipping. Combined with the full power of WaveWarp's DrawingBoard architecture, you can now manipulate your live audio signals in virtually any conceivable manner. For example, speak into your computer and hear your voice backwards in real-time, or plug your guitar in and create your own real-time multi-dimensional multi-layered surround sound effects box ...the possibilities are virtually endless!

Place your order online now at www.soundslogical.com and take advantage of our new millenium super low price of only $199. With over 260 professional audio effects, that works out to 77 cents per effect, not to mention the infinite number of combinations available (if you include those, then mathematically speaking, you are getting each effect for free -- now thats not a bad deal!) If you don't need multichannel I/O, multirate DSP, external digital filter interfacing, ASCII file I/O, or bundled MATLAB m-files, we now offer an alternative Lite version for only $99. With many of the same effects as the full version, this works out to 40 cents per effect. (For the difference of $100, you can upgrade to the full version at any time).

WaveWarp is the ultimate tool for the sound designer, musician, audio engineer, researcher, or educator who demands complete creative control over the audio processing environment. Key features include:

• Object-oriented modular architecture with over 260 real-time DSP components running native on the PC under Windows 95/98/NT. No DSP hardware required.

• Supports live audio input and playback via all Windows-compatible soundcards (with Wave drivers). (See all Example DrawingBoards with names starting with "Live..." for demonstrations of the powerful new live input feature).

• 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, allowing the construction of elaborate multiband effects.

• 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, and many more.

• 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, for importing off-line designs for total flexibility

• Digital displays, oscilloscopes, and spectrum analysers for elaborate signal visualisation.

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

• Internal 32-bit floating point precision for all signal processing calculations.

• Extensive HTML-based Users' Guide and Help files.

• Wide range of Example DrawingBoards which you can use "as is" or as starting points for your own customised algorithms

• Bundled set of matlab m-files for convenient import/export of digital filters, wavetables, envelopes functions, etc.