Anymix Pro instantly adjusts loudness and EQ settings automatically once the signal is moved within the listening space. Also on board Anymix Pro are high-quality upmix features, making it easy to upmix stereo channels to 8.1 surround or backwards by keeping the naturalness of the original sound. In addition, Anymix Pro can be highly configured according to individual needs. Anymix Pro directly integrates into the new mix console of Nuendo 6.
"We're really excited that Steinberg has recognized the potential of the IOSONO technology, and we're glad to be a part of the most powerful surround-production environment available today," comments Olaf Stepputat, CEO at IOSONO.
Anymix Pro Surround
Anymix Essential and Anymix Pro will continue to be available as stand-alone products to be used with all digital audio workstations supporting VST or RTAS. The plug-in will be further developed by IOSONO, as Robert Steffens, the company's director of software development, states: "The feedback we received from audio professionals regarding Anymix was really positive. We'll continue to create high-quality surround mixing solutions for our customers, and we're already working on Anymix Pro 2, supporting Avid's new AAX format."
The plug-in can be used to convert any input setup from mono to 8.1 to any output format from stereo to 8.1. In addition, the included surround panning mode offers deep control of channel positioning within the surround field.
Anymix is a VST / RTAS / AAX plug-in for an easy, yet precise creation of surround mixes. It offers features for individual panning and upmixing. The plug-in comes with a selection of up- and downmix preferences tailored to be used in post-production, broadcast, music and game sound design. Anymix gives the mixer full control over important upmix parameters.
The plug-in can be used to convert any input setup from mono to 8.1 to any output format from stereo to 8.1. In addition, the included surround panning mode offers extended control of channel positioning within the surround field.
Anymix can be used to convert any input setup from mono to 8.1 to any output format from stereo to 8.1. In addition, the included surround panning mode offers deep control of channel positioning within the surround field.
Celebrating the summer season with a special summer sale, IOSONO is granting a 40% discount on its surround mixing plug-in Anymix Pro. The VST / RTAS plug-in will be available for just EUR 180 until August 31, 2012.
So perhaps the easiest way to differentiate the two programs is to describe the markets for whom each is tailored. Cubase is designed for musicians, composers, and commercial recording studios, whereas Nuendo is known as an audio post-production, or 'audio for picture' program for video and film post-production (not to be confused with video editing programs like Apple Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere). Basically, if you're not recording dialog, foley sound effects, or other audio for movies and/or videos, requiring several network-connected engineers to be working on the same project simultaneously, or needing one of the more esoteric Nuendo features (like larger than 5.1 surround sound or Sony 9-Pin support), then for composers and musicians, Cubase is probably the best bet.
Steinberg teamed up with IOSONO to include the Anymix Pro plug-in with Nuendo 6. Anymix Pro allows you to upmix any surround sound configuration to another, including plain old stereo. The Anymix Pro interface is shown in Figure 5:
When a project is originally mixed in surround sound, the conversion to a different speaker configuration can be challenging. The Animix Pro plug-in makes quick work of such an operation. For example, if your original Nuendo project was mixed in 7.1, but needs to be reconfigured to 5.1, Anymix Pro can make the proper division of the original speakers and deliver them to that of a reduced number of speakers. The interface is very easy to understand with icons for the old and new configurations and a 360º field to represent the upmixed speaker placements.
Following a somewhat extensive search of various formats of publications[4], surrounding AI, I found, rather unsurprisingly, that many expressed potentials and concerns. These covered the areas of the commercial, the non-profit-oriented, the psychological, social or the existential. It is hardly arguable that this finding is almost a truism and that this is the case for expressions concerning most technologies, including AI.
In browsing through these and a dozen of other publications, I could not help but sense my increasing intuition that ethics was possibly not seriously considered or, was perhaps very seriously considered, by others while seemingly most authors were ignoring the human capability for innovation in relation to their human thought processes. Could we not consider improving how we think and how that thinking affects ourselves, our surrounding and those (life) forms and functions surrounding us? Could we, by doing so, not improve our technological output, such as AI?[12] [This endnote offers my view on, specifically, the WEF paper] .
Except their concerns of application and consequences of automated and (quasi) artificially-intelligent systems of the present or imagined future, I found very little to no considerations that --besides only tiptoeing around some human condition and the human potential-- presented anything more than (present or forecasted) consequences for humans surrounding versions of AI.
Indeed, there are many a word that could be listed which have already been listed, ad nauseam, in realms of 21st Century Learning Skills,[14] leadership skills, Computational Thinking, creative processes and Design Thinking, thoughts surrounding frameworks, modes, models and simulations, scientific methodologies or logic thought, intuition, wisdom and shared well-being.
However, I do not hear nor read many authors who wonders why it is that, in these popular fictional depictions, the individual characters pretty much act, communicate and judge, in the manner with which us humans --as the physical people, surrounding the authors of the entertaining content-- act in, communicate in or judge their own physical and imagined reality, of their own social and cultural setting, of their own time. The characters in some of these futuristic high-tech worlds do so dogmatically, in objectifying mannerisms, gullibly, rigidly, habitually, submissively, oppressively and proverbially blindly. 2ff7e9595c
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