THE CURRENT AUDICY PRODUCT LINE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED AS OF JULY 22nd, 2005.
Service and Parts still available.
Audicy
Software
Audicy systems are currently shipping with Audicy, Version 3.0. Check your "About" screen, and make sure the "Workstation Software" (or Audicy Software) Version field says "3.0." If your system is running version 2.01 or lower, please contact Orban Customer Service. You will need to supply us with your system's "About" screen info so that we know exactly what software disks you need to get 3.0 up and running on your system.
Audicy Version 3.0, released January, 2000. Highlights include:
- Support for new effects classes: Includes Professional Broadcast Pro Digital Delay, Chorus and Flange, Orban Stereo Toolkit, and combination Compressor/EQ.
- Up to 20 custom presets can be created for each class of effect. These presets can be moved between systems. Each User Preset can be named and given a 'Notes' descriptor line to describe the preset.
- Block diagrams of Compressor, Reverb and new V3.0 effects.
- More secure handling of network and secondary drive failures.
- Enhanced fast wind.
- New Edit Locates menu pick, updated Name And Edit Audicy Locate Points screen.
- Production Import/Export, allowing full productions to be condensed as single files, enabling easier distribution via email or FTP sites.
Audicy Version 2.50, released April, 1999. Highlights include:
- Support for optional Novell Netware networking, comparable to our Microsoft network support.
- Support for TCP/IP internet protocol on Microsoft networks.
- Wave file import and export from within a production. Save Waves as linear 8-bit or 16-bit at a variety of sample rates, or with MPEG layer II compression (with optional hardware). Wave files can also be saved with EBU/BWF information.
- Send Cart function to create Wave files to export directly to digital delivery systems. Includes form pages for setting traffic/continuity information consistent with Orban’s proposed "Cart Chunk" Broadcast Wave standard.
- Y2K compliance.
- Support for "SpinRite," a unique and powerful third party utility to help ensure the integrity of your drives and files.
- Audicy’s link to ENCO on-air systems now supports all current versions, including ENCO DAD486, ENCO DADPRO and ENCO DADPRO32.
Audicy Version 2.01, released August, 1998. Highlights include:
- Support for optional Networking. Now, Audicy workstations can be connected to simple desktop PCs or advanced file servers, enabling production and library sharing between multiple Audicys, or Wave file transfers to and from other computers.
- New Folder capabilities, allowing users to create and sort productions and libraries in their own unique folders.
- Improved layout and more intuitive navigation in Audicy form screens.
- Better, faster support for Wave files. Now it's faster and easier than ever to create multimedia tracks, or use Internet sounds in your Audicy productions.
- More on-screen Help, including instant descriptions of every button on the Console, to make learning Audicy even easier.
- Hidden performance improvements, including intelligent management of internal memory.
- Support for our new Remote Control hardware option.
Audicy Version 1.50, released January, 1998. Highlights include:
- Support for our new generation of Audicy memory modules, doubling current recording capacities.
- Optional SMPTE/Machine control support for audio for video applications.
- Wave file import and export with full sample and bit rate conversion.
- New "Fade Up/Fade Down" edit features.
- Enhancements to our scrub facilities, including new speeds and gear ratios.
- Many new "hot-key" functions, including a new "Check Edit" feature for fast previewing of your last edit. Included: Alt+Input toggles input routing; Shift+Input enables the I/O Setup form; Shift+A/B enables Auto A/B mode.
- For users with Orban’s Digital I/O Module, the sync output of the digital module is now stable when transitioning between the Job Controller and Editor.
- Defaults control settings easier to use. The I/O, Chase, VTR, Machine Control and Scrub Setup screens have a new Defaults selection field.
- Alt+Input toggles input routing; Shift+Input enables the I/O Setup form; Shift+A/B enables Auto A/B mode.
Audicy Version 1.10, released August, 1997. Highlights include:
- Printer Utilities lets you hook up a printer to your system’s parallel (printer) port and print notes files and lists of productions or library sounds.
- New Notepad: Text notes may now be edited and printed from within a production.
- Auto A/B lets you automatically switch what you’re listening to when recording. Use it with Auto A/B for doing punch-ins or overdubs in Bounce record mode.
- Input Routing indicator provides a visual reminder of how you have your input routing selected; labels above the input meters now reflect normal L/R input routing, mono input routing, and reverse stereo input routing.
Audicy Version 1.00, original software, released April, 1997.