nexStage DSDeliver — User Manual
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1. Appendix A Activating the DSDeliver Plug in PAGE 8 Installation SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS System Requirements Pro Tools LE System version 6 4 or higher Pro Tools TDM System version 6 4 or higher Operating System Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher Macintosh Mac OS X version 10 3 or higher SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Insert the DSDeliver CD ROM into your optical disc drive For Windows start D Setup exe where D is your CD ROM s drive letter For Mac OS double click on DSDeliver pkg For either OS run the installer following the on screen instructions After successful installation of the software in the Plug ins directory the DSDeliver Plug in has to be activated via your included iLok Smart Key See Appendix A for more information Using the DSDeliver Plug in for AudioSuite MAIN FEATURES This Pro Tools DSDeliver Plug in provides sample rate conversion from PCM to DSD in the Digidesign Pro Tools systems Main features of the DSDeliver Plug in Creation of DSDIFF Direct Stream Digital Interchange File Format files Conversion from LPCM to DSD Support of most used PCM sample rates 44 1 48 88 2 96 176 4 and 192 kHz Support of all PCM formats available in Pro Tools Embedded Compression Ratio Estimator to estimate DST Encoding gain For more information about DSD and DSDIFF visit http www sonicstudio com support kbase htm AUDIO INPUT In principle the DSDe2. Enable Compression Ratio Estimator process Figure 1 Pro Tools Dialog with DSD Plug in Dialog In the dialog of the DSD Plug in the Output Filename can be entered via the Browse button In a DSDIFF file Edited Master options are available The text entered in the Edited Master ID Artist and Title fields will be placed in the header of the file and can be read out by DSD workstations and authoring tools The Edited Master ID should be a unique ID for example CompanyName_ProjectName_Date_Time COMPRESSION RATIO ESTIMATOR Selecting the checkbox will enable the Compression Ratio Estimator This will give a log file as a result This logfile will be placed in the same directory as the DSDIFF file In the log file the estimated file size after encoding is shown If you add the estimated size for the stereo and multichannel files they should not exceed a maximum size of 4 600 000 000 bytes as anything larger will not fit on an SACD disc In case it is exceeds that size a track can be removed or the level can be lowered to bring the total size down to within a disc s storage requirements DSDIFF OUTPUT To convert your audio on the timeline into a DSDIFF file press the Process button During that process a progress bar will show the amount of completion When finished the progress bar will close and the main dialog of Pro Tools will be shown The DSDIFF file is now available in the directory you specified for further proces
3. Pro Tools AudioSuite a S f KSonic Studio User Manual nexStage DSDeliver plug in for Pro Tools AudioSuite Sonic Studio LLC Marin County CA DISCLAIMER Whereas Sonic Studio has taken care to ensure that the information contained in this document is accurate this information is provided on an as is basis without any warranty as to its completeness or accuracy Sonic Studio shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for any damages including direct indirect or consequential resulting from the use of this document or reliance on the accuracy of its contents Supply of this document does not confer any license under any intellectual property right of Sonic Studio to use any of those rights in any apparatus system or any components subassemblies or software for such apparatus or system 2005 2006 Sonic Studio LLC All rights reserved Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without the written consent of the copyright owner For comment questions or additional copies of this document please contact Sonic Studio LLC 330 Sir Francis Drake Blvd Suite G San Anselmo CA 94960 2552 Voice 415 460 1201 Fax 775 330 8923 E Mail nexStage sonicstudio com Contents Installation PAGE 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PAGE 4 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION PAGE 4 Use of the DSDeliver Plug in PAGE 5 MAIN FEATURES PAGE 5 AUDIO INPUT PAGE 5 COMPRESSION RATIO ESTIMATOR PAGE 6 DSDIFF OUTPUT PAGE 6 MORE INFORMATION PAGE 7
4. enge response the first steps are the same a Start up the Plug in a Buy Quit screen will appear b On this screen click on Buy Do you have an iLok smart key screen appears c Unselect the box d Click on Next a Internet Activation screen appears e Select Manual Activation f Click on Next a Challenge Response screen appears From here you have two choices i Preferred Method By clicking on Save Challenge a license file will be created Please send this file by e mail nexStage sonicstudio com ii Alternate Method Copy the words under Challenge into an e mail and send this information to nexStage sonicstudio com Or you may print a screenshot and fax it to 775 330 8923 attention Support Note that this alternate method will require a longer time period to process In either case please close the application We will send an e mail or fax back with a series of short words or in case of a Challenge File a Response File will be send back via e mail g Start up the Plug in and follow the same procedure as above up to step f the Challenge Response dialog h Click on Read Response In case of a Response file or hard copy type in the series of short words from the fax or e mail you received from Sonic Studio support The exact series of short words should be visible in the Response dialog i Click on the Next button a Thank You screen appears j Click on Finish to close t
5. he Authentication process You can start running the Plug in now 051222v1r6DSDeliver
6. liver Plug in can convert all audio available on the timeline of your Pro Tools system Some restrictions apply to this No effects may be activated Only a2 5 or 6 channel program can be converted to a DSDIFF file For the length of the DSDIFF file the length of the longest audio channel will be taken If applicable other audio channels will be filled or padded with silence The standard channel order of Pro Tools should be used The DSDeliver Plug in will change this into the right DSDIFF channel order See Table 1 for more information The audio files on the timeline should contain all audio for the aloum without any edits Amount of Channels Pro Tools Channel Order DSDIFF Channel Order 2 Left Right Stereo Left SLFT Stereo Right SRGT 5 L Center R Ls Rs Multichannel Left MLFT Multichannel Right MRGT Center LS RS 6 L Center R Ls Rs LFE MLFT MRGT Center LFE LS RS Table 1 Channel Order After selecting the audio channels start up the DSDeliver Plug in via the Toolbar The DSDeliver Plug in is available via AudioSuite gt Other gt DSDeliver Figure 1 below shows the Toolbar Menus and the dialog of the DSD Plug in 9 DSD Output Writer playlist use in playlist create continuous file Output Filename Yolumes Juno_Process Final Mix DSD dff Browse id igital Edited Master ID Direct Stream Digita RR051003 Artist Ann Howe Trio Go Jone Go eu ON
7. sing This DSDIFF file cannot be opened by a Pro Tools system Listening to the DSD file is possible via DSD software For more information please contact us at lt sales sonicstudio com gt MORE INFORMATION In case of problems error messages or questions please send an e mail to nexStage sonicstudio com and attach a screen dump of the error message if possible and detailed description of your problem including OS version Pro Tools version amount of RAM and installed hardware In addition to this application various other interesting technologies are available More information about the Super Audio CD format the DSDIFF specification DSD signal processing and SACD Authoring can be found at http Awww sonicstudio com If you are interested in our activities or in any of our product lines please do not hesitate to contact us at sales sonicstudio com or visit us at http Awww sonicstudio com Appendix A Activating the DSDeliver Plug in In general there are two ways to activate the Plug in 1 Using the iLok Smart Key If you have an account with iLock com log on with your username and password to the site http Awww ilok com A license will be waiting for you Please follow normal procedure to install the license to your key The iLok com web site has a Quick Start Guide that walks you through their process 2 Via a License File or Challenge Response For either a license file or chall
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