Bremen, 3. May 2006
Cube-Tec releases new VPI / FPU: Cube-Tec UpMix
Cube-Tec International, creators of the world renowned AudioCube, QUADRIGA and DOBBIN professional audio workstations, release the latest VPI / FPU – Cube-Tec UpMix.
Cube-Tec is proud to present its latest product: Cube-Tec UpMix, a surround upmix module that is capable of expanding stereo or even mono sources to 5.1 surround sound.
Not being built around artificial reverberation, the algorithm analyses the existing source material and expands the contained ambience information into the surround sound field. The result is a very natural, homogeneous 5.1 sound, preserving the 'intention' of the original recording.
Cube-Tec UpMix is available for Cube-Tecs AudioCube and DOBBIN systems, offering both flexible real-time processing with the AudioCube VPI (Virtual Precision Instrument), or cost-effective mass processing with the DOBBIN FPU (File Processing Unit).
The algorithm was developed in close cooperation with the surround sound engineers of the Hamburg based Mastering & Surround Factory, who are the first to run the Cube-Tec UpMix VPI on their AudioCube 6 system. A growing number of DVD titles has already been produced there, including releases by Sammy Davis Jr., Leonard Cohen, Birth Control, Dubliners, Rattles and James Last to name but a few.
Additional Information can be found at www.cube-tec.com.
About Cube-Tec International GmbH
Cube-Tec International specializes in professional Audio Restoration, Mastering, On-line Content and Archiving software solution, as well as similar solutions in the field of Forensics. Cube-Tec also delivers custom solutions for specific projects requiring audio signal processing expertise.
The company's QUADRIGA automated capturing station for quality-controlled analog-to-digital conversion of sound archives is the world standard in audio archival. Cube-Tecs mastering and restoration VPIs, based on the AudioCube platform, are broadly deployed in renowned mastering studios by world-class experts like Bernie Grundman, and Bob Ludwig.
Cube-Tec International's customers include the Library of Congress (USA), the National Archives of the USA, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Luxemburg, Sonopress/Bertelsmann, Universal Studios (Germany), National Public Radio (USA), Germany's Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), and most of the major public broadcasters of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Finland.
About Mastering & Surround Factory
Mastering & Surround Factory, based in Hamburg/Germany, started its operation one year ago and is specialized in high-end stereo and surround mastering, sound restoration, live recording, surround mixing, upmix from mono/stereo to surround and authoring. The studio was planned and build uncompromisingly for surround sound - designed by the British specialists Recording Architecture from London. A lot of international artists were mixed and mastered at the studio like Count Basie Orchestra, Diane Reeves, Tarkan and others.