| Create unique acoustic environments. For sound engineers, where you record is as important as what you
record. That’s because the acoustic environment can greatly affect the overall warmth
and reverb of your final audio mix.
Now you can make audio tracks sound like they were recorded in almost
any room you can imagine. Cakewalk Audio FX 3 SoundStage allows you to design acoustic
environments in which to play back digital audio, resulting in unique, realistic reverb.
To create the perfect room, just click and drag your mouse to move walls
and change ceiling height. Choose from different microphones, and place them inside the
room. Then assign each audio track to different "performer" positions to hear
custom reverb on each track.
When you’re finished, save your soundstage for other sessions, or
use as a template for other designs. Audio FX 3 includes ready-to-use soundstages too.
So stop searching for the perfect recording space, and design your own
soundstage with Cakewalk Audio FX 3.
| Audio FX 3 Features Two Views |
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Performers View
- Position performers anywhere in room
- Tailor EQ response curves for each performer
- Assign audio tracks to individual performers
- Hear audio match the performers' room position and proximity to microphone
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SoundStage Performers View
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Room View
- Define sizes and positions for ceiling, floor, and up to seven walls
- Select unique room characteristics like sound absorption, trapping and
high-frequency damping
- Place microphones and select microphone patterns, proximity adjustments,
and separation distance
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SoundStage Room View |
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Why DirectX Audio Plug-ins?
Cakewalk Audio FX 3 is a real-time audio processing plug-in for Windows 95/98/NT. All
Cakewalk Audio FX plug-ins are Microsoft DirectX-compatible, allowing you to use them with
any digital audio software that supports DirectX including Guitar Studio, Home Studio 8,
Professional 8, and Pro Audio 8.
Cakewalk Audio FX 3 uses 32-bit, floating-point processing, providing you with fast,
precise, mono and stereo audio effects. Cakewalk Audio FX 3 can be used as real-time
effects during record or playback, or used to render audio tracks as off-line edits. So
you get maximum editing flexibility whether you're mixing tracks at home or in the studio.
While many different audio plug-in platforms exist today, Microsoft DirectX is the true
open standard for audio plug-ins on the Windows platform. This means that you are not
limited to a single manufacturer's proprietary format. DirectX is supported by the
industry's leading manufacturers of digital audio software, giving you a wide range of
plug-ins and host programs from which to choose.
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 95/98/NT: Pentium 166*, 32 MB RAM, CD-ROM Drive
* Pentium 200 recommended for real-time stereo performance
Cakewalk Audio FX 3 will work with any DirectX-compatible host programs, including
Cakewalk Guitar Studio, Cakewalk Home Studio 8, Cakewalk Professional 8, and Cakewalk Pro
Audio 8.
Technical Specifications
General Specifications
| Plug-in Architecture |
DirectX |
| Minimum System Requirements |
Windows 95/98/NT: Pentium 166, 32MB Pentium 200 recommended for real-time stereo performance
Video Display: 256 colors/ 800x600 resolution |
| Internal Processing Specifications |
32-bit Floating Point calculations, 96 dB S/N |
| Channels Supported |
Stereo or Mono |
| Real-time Processing Supported |
Yes |
| Off-line Processing Supported |
Yes |
| Audio Formats Supported |
Dependent on DirectX-compatible host
application |
| User-definable Presets |
Yes |
| Maximum Number of Presets |
Unlimited |
| Storage Space Required for Installation |
10 MB |
SoundStage plug-in
| Controls (Room design): |
Room/Microphone layout area Scale: 20 - 200 feet square (6.1 - 61 meters square)
Ceiling Height: 10 - 200 feet (3 - 61 meters)
Absorption: 10 - 90 %
Trapping: 10 - 90 %
High Frequency (8 kHz) Damping: -24 to 0 dB
Maximum number of walls: 7
Maximum number of microphones: 2 (variable placement and
orientation/direction)
Microphones
Pattern Selection: Omni, Cardioid, Super-cardioid, Hyper-cardioid,
Bi-directional
Separation Distance: 0 - 100 ft (0 - 30.5 meters)
Proximity Adjustment: 1 - 200 ft (0.3 - 61 meters)
Relative Angle (Microphones): 0 - 180 degrees
All distance values in the plug-in can be seen as Feet, Yards, or Meters
Notes field for user text entry |
| Controls (Performance) |
Output Gain (-infinity to +12 dB) Dry Adjust (-infinity to +12 dB)
Performer Response EQ:
Low Shelf (63-500Hz, -24 to +12 dB)
Mid (500 - 5000 Hz, -24 to +12 dB, 50 - 5 Q factor)
High Shelf (5 - 22 kHz, -24 to +12 dB)
Three dimensional room/performer display with trackball control for
viewing position, zoom controls and wall-display toggle
Bypass (toggle button)
Stereo In (toggle button)
Mono-to-Stereo (toggle button)
Performer Name field |
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