IK Multimedia T-RackS 24 Standalone

If you record music with digital gear, you already know how challenging it can be to get that warm, broad, analog sound. Yet, up until now, there's never been a way to achieve this without leaving the digital domain and piping your music through expensive analog gear.

T-RackS 24 provides an intuitive, great-sounding solution to this digital dilemma with a stand-alone software mastering suite for your personal computer that is physically modeled after analog gear! Put analog back into your digital domain!

• 4 Processors in 1 - analog-modeled Equalizer, Compressor, Limiter and the new soft-clipping output stage
• Now supports 24 bit Aiff, Wav and SDII files for importing and exporting.
• Specifically Designed for Mastering
• Astonishing sound is created with algorithms based on real analog circuitry
• 32-Bit Internal Resolution
• High Productivity, Ease of Use

Features

Equalizer

• State-of-the-art six band parametric equalizer, modeled on classic top quality analog gear.
• 4th order parametric, High and Low pass filters
• Parametric Low-shelving control
• Parametric Lo-mid control with Low or High "Q"
• Parametric Hi-mid control with Low or High "Q"
• Parametric High-shelving control

Compressor

• Classic tube stereo compressor/leveler designed for mastering.
• Vintage-style compression unit
• Classic warm "in-face" sound of old tube mastering levelers
• Very-soft knee compression with no threshold point
• Stereo-image width control
• Mastering-oriented variable time constants
• Comprehensive and accurate gain-reduction VU
• New Ratio control

Limiter

• Multiband master stereo limiter.
• High-quality 3-band limiting stage
• Ultra fast peak detection
• Ultra-linear and accurate band mixing for high-end performance
• Overload for accurate control of limiting and saturation
• Soft clipping feature for warm analog emulation
• Comprehensive gain reduction VU
• Very accurate peak LED indicators at the outputs
• Output stage with hard/soft selectable clipping

NEW Output stage with soft-clipping shaper

• Astoundingly musical and smooth performance
• Variable clipping shape (from hard clip to ultra-soft) for complete control and precision
• Easily increase gain with no compression or limiting artifacts (unless you want them!)
• Create warm, saturated mastering effects

Professional Metering and Monitoring

• Responsive analog VU's
• Ultra-fast and accurate pop-up digital peak meter with hardware-like performance
• NEW x10 switch on the peak meter makes very easy to evaluate the level of the master in the "critical zone"
• NEW "over" LED precisely shows when the master has "overs"
• NEW mono, stereo and difference monitoring to check the master for mono-compatibility and stereo image coherence, like in high-end consoles

Internal parameter adjustments

• NOW by drag-and-drop text parameter list can be easily change the default architecture of T-RackS 24 to achieve the finest special settings.

Other features

• High quality real time preview and processing
• Works on any standard stereo 16 bit and NOW 24 bit, WAV, SDII or AIFF audio files, 44.1/48kHz
• 32 bit floating point internal processing for amazing audio resolution and true analog simulation
• Analog modeled animated interface
• Fade-in/fade out, loop and scrollable preview
• Time-line markers to facilitate the immediate recall/play of mixes
• Control snapshots to recall entire set-ups with just one click
• Graphical built-in help, extensive manual and tutorial
• Presets included
• Compatible with all popular audio cards
• 8 NEW amazing "vintage" skins
• NOW dongle-free

System Requirements

Minimum Mac Requirements

• Power Mac 180 MHz PPC603e or 120 MHz PPC604e
• 7.5 or later system software
• 32 MB RAM
• Screen settings: 640x480, thousands of colors.
• Digital I/O audio card is needed for high-quality mastering.

Minimum Windows Requirements

• Intel Pentium 200 MHz MMX, optimized for Pentium III.
• Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.0, Windows? 2000
• 32MB RAM and high-quality sound card.
• Screen settings: 800x600, high colors (16 bit).
• Digital I/O audio card is needed for high-quality mastering.

Please note that T-RackS is compatible with all the sound cards which route the system sound manager output. The audio card is responsible of the monitoring quality (preview). The process of the file is managed by T-RackS itself at the highest quality and doesn't depend on the audio card.

BeOS Requirements

• Intel Pentium II 266 MHz or faster
• 64 MB RAM and 80 MB of free HD space.
• Runs on BeOS? releases 4.0 or 4.5.
• Digital I/O audio card is needed for high-quality mastering.
• Screen settings: 800x600, high colors (16 bit).