
THE CURRENT AUDICY PRODUCT LINE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED AS OF JULY 22nd, 2005.
Service and Parts still available.
Audicy
Features
System Summary
- Lightning-fast linear PCM 10-channel, 24-track editing and mixing.
- Straightforward and intuitive design. Familiar controls promote fast learning and quick, easy operation.
- World-class studio effects from Orban and Lexicon are built in.
- Time-Fit® sets industry standard for clean, transparent time compression.
- Advanced SMPTE features for fast, intuitive cutting to picture.
- Automatic shadowing to hard disk or removable Jaz drive.
- All Audio is true linear PCM without data compression.
- Direct "cart" file export to popular audio delivery system networks.
- Help button for instant access to Audicy's on-line manual.
- Shipped as a complete, ready-to-run system, including stand.
- Trouble-free software sets industry standard for reliability.
- Upgrades as the system evolves.
Dedicated Controller
- All controls easily reached and logically placed for comfortable, fast, and accurate operation.
- 13 100mm full-throw, noise-free digital faders, software-optimized to P&G 3000 series attenuators.
- Large, solid scrubwheel provides precise "reel-rocking" over all channels simultaneously.
- Individually-lighted Play Enable, Record Ready, and Effects Select buttons for each channel.
- Eleven Rotary digital "pots" for hands-on control of panning, submixes, auxiliary mixes or effects.
- Complete edit marking buttons.
- Comprehensive locator buttons.
- Shortcut keys for instant access to frequently used features.
- Dedicated Undo and Help buttons.
- Built-in numeric keypad and slide-out keyboard.
- Mixer
- Precise, real-time, 32-bit digital mixing of 10 channels (with assignable effects), internal stereo submix, digital or analog external effects sends; 2 input channels.
- 24 tracks can be assigned to any of 10 mixer channels.
- Internal stereo submix, selectable pre/post fader, controls up to 10 channel sends for built-in special effects. Dedicated stereo submix return fader.
- Auxiliary stereo output with gain and pan control for each channel, switchable pre/post for interfacing with external effects processors.
- Fully digital bounce of up to 10 tracks plus internal submix and external effects returns to any one or two tracks for infinite track layering.
- Bounce tracks to themselves to build fades, change track dynamics, or add special effects.
- A/B button allows quick switching between two gangs of channels.
- Automatic save and recall mixer settings.
Editing
- Instantaneous Undo/Redo.
- Dedicated edit point buttons let you make edit marks at any time, by ear, while listening at any speed or "rocking reels."
- Make only 2 edit marks to Leader, Cut, and Erase across 10 tracks.
- Make 3 edit marks to Copy, Move, Loop, or Swap elements or tracks.
- Instantly Copy or Loop up to 10 tracks at a time.
- Source and Destination Audition let you preview any edit region.
- Copy Edit Length duplicates size to preserve time relationships between tracks.
- User-selectable "splice angles" create automatic crossfades of edits.
- Automatically backtime any edit.
- Powerful "multi-trim" and "L-cut" features let you line up the middle of one sound to a cue sound on another track.
- Instant audible access to any point and/or track in production.
Transport
- Tape-like transport controls with lighted buttons for Stop, Play, Rewind, Fast Forward, and Record.
- Scrubwheel allows precision "reel-rocking" with single sample resolution. "Gear ratio" and "speed limit" of scrubwheel are user-settable.
- Half-Speed and Twice-Speed Play provide flexible edit marking and track searching.
- Tape-like Vari-Speed Play, continuously variable over a full two octave range.
- Fastwind modes have true tape-style ballistics with up to 8X play speed.
- Cue mode allows instant 20 or 60 second jumps (user-selectable).
- Seamless manual punch-in and punch-out of Record.
- Powerful auto punch-in feature can be set over selected record range.
- Output sample rate is always constant regardless of transport speed.
- 24 user-defined/named locate points, set from any transport mode or speed.
- Instantly move to Head or Tail of any track, or Last Record.
- Skip Silence lets you quickly locate to the start of any audio segment.
- Go To Time Code lets you jump to any time location.
Effects
- 4-Band digital parametric equalization and filtering designed by Bob Orban.
- OPTIMOD digital compression and noise gating.
- Lexicon reverberation.
- Slap Echo and other effects.
- Gain boost for low-level signals.
- Factory presets developed specifically for broadcast production.
- Full user control of effects parameters with intuitive, real-time adjustment using rotary encoder knobs.
- Any effect can be adjusted by ear or using precise graphic display.
- All effects can be patched in on any track, track pair, internal submix send and return, or main output.
- 24-bit resolution internal effects processing.
- Optional FX Turbo Rack provides additional DSP for effects.
- Effects bypass for quick comparisons.
Production Tools
- Transparent Time-Fit time compression and expansion squeezes or expands audio elements or entire mixes by ± 25% without affecting pitch or adding glitches or audible artifacts.
- Time-Fit can be set by percentage, by duration, by eye, or by real-time tempo preview.
- Pitch Shifting lets you change the pitch of audio by ± 25% without affecting its length.
- Vari-copy lets you vari-speed individual elements by as much as ± one octave without affecting the rest of the mix.
- Flip lets you reverse a piece of audio.
- Time-Fit and other production tools work faster than real-time effects.
Screens
- Transparent Time-Fit time compression and expansion squeezes or expands audio elements or entire mixes by ± 25% without affecting pitch or adding glitches or audible artifacts.
- Record, edit, and mix from a single easy-to-understand screen.
- Intuitive screen design tightly couples visuals with hardware controller.
- Message window provides context-sensitive feedback as you work.
- Track envelopes scroll so you can mix while watching what's up next.
- Status Windows display key information.
- Production Overview displays the audio segments in the entire production.
- Tracks can be named directly on edit screen.
- Fuel Gauge displays amount of recording time left.
- Peak reading level meters provide continuous, instant-response monitoring of inputs, auxiliary outputs, submix sends, output effects differential, and main outputs.
- On-screen counters display current time, edit length, end time, locate point, and edit locations in hours: minutes: seconds: frames.
- Digital I/O setup screen permits detailed analysis of external digital sources.
- SMPTE Chase and Machine Control setup screens control offsets and chase dynamics, diagnose incoming time code, and let you tune VTR dynamics.
Wave Files
- Import and Export Wave files from within the Editor.
- Save Wave files as linear 8-bit or 16-bit at a variety of sample rates, or with MPEG layer II compression (with optional hardware).
Library
- Stores frequently used audio on fixed hard disk or optional removable media.
- Preview sounds directly from disk.
- Upload library "carts" to popular audio delivery systems (optional).
- Export and import wave files into library.
Help
- Dedicated Help button provides context-based access to on-line manual.
- Press Shift+Help for glossary of shortcuts and button combinations.
- Press Help+any button to get info on that button.
Job Controller and System
- Easy-to-use interface to manage your productions.
- Notepad Editor for creating notes or scripts specific to each production.
- Disk Usage display shows how disk(s) are being used by productions and library sounds.
- Built-in Optimize utility defragments hard disk for maximum disk speed performance.
- Built-in Disk Check Up utility checks disk integrity, and diagnoses and repairs errors.
Additional Functions
- Multiple language screens allow use by non-English speaking operators.
- Remote control access of main controller functions via RS-232.
- Keyboard is used for typewriter functions only.
- Cable extension options allow remote placement of system unit up to 150 ft.
