For the first time, the Pro-Codec enables engineers to use Apple’s iTunes Plus codec for real-time auditioning, making it a powerful, time-saving tool to efficiently mix directly for the Mastered for iTunes programme. Now the exact same clipping behaviour of the iTunes encoding chain can be monitored and levels corrected if necessary, saving time and ensuring high quality output during the mixing process.

Also integrated into the plug-in are Fraunhofer's own AAC and mp3 codecs, including MPEG Surround and multi-channel AAC formats for surround mixing.

The Pro-Codec's extensive monitoring tools and built-in encoding/decoding features enable mixes to be optimised for specific target formats, ensuring maximum fidelity for final encoding and distribution.

The primary purpose of the Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec is to provide a way of monitoring your host session material using the highly regarded Fraunhofer encoders, without the need for offline processing. By auditioning and comparing codecs online, it allows you to make executive decisions on the best codecs to use, and when all is complete, then write the encoded audio to disk.

Also contained within the plug-in is a fully featured offline encode window. You can compress Wav or Aiff files for offline batch processing with the codecs and settings of your choice.

When you need to import an encoded file into your project, but the host does not recognise the file format, the plug-in also has an offline decode section. This eliminates the need for any proprietary applications to be used when importing encoded material into your session.

All of the available codecs compress an audio data bitstream. Different codecs compress using different algorithms, and will compress to very different degrees.

HE-AAC is optimized for the best quality at very low bit-rates, and will produce very small files (potentially around one hundredth of the input file size). Lossless encoders, in contrast, are not so effective at compressing data and will produce files that are around half the size of the input. The familiar mp3 codecs produce compression factors of typically around 12.

The Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec can also decode compressed files for import into the host sequencer (or for general purpose decoding). 

Features

• Supported Codecs:

• Ability to select up to five codecs for simultaneous export, in real time, to encoded files

• Comprehensive auditioning with glitchless switching

• Ability to audition the difference between input signal and codec output

• AB auditioning in real time between codecs, or between codec and input signal

• ABX mode for blind statistical testing

• Graphical displays include:

• Off-line encoding and decoding

• Compatible with many digital audio workstation applications, such as:

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