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Bias Deck 3.5

Now with OS X and OMF support — exceptional performance & value in a professional multitrack digital audio workstation.

Take a close look at Deck 3.5. You'll find that no other Mac-based multitrack digital audio workstation touches Deck's combination of features, speed, compatibility, and value.

Need a professional audio solution for film or video? With Deck 3.5, you can spot effects, edit dialogue, process soundtracks, record ADR-style voiceovers and craft complex mixes to stereo or complete 5.1 surround — all while in perfect sync to a QuickTime movie or DV clip. For music production, Deck 3.5 is a dream: It's stable, capable, and sonically superb, with up to four realtime effects plug-ins per track. Working in broadcast? Deck 3.5 is fast, easy, and a remarkably cost-effective editing platform. And, its broad range of audio tools include surround mixing, are perfectly suited to multimedia development — for video games, the Web, presentations, or whatever.

With Deck 3.5, your creative potential is unlimited, thanks to its easy and intuitive user interface, scores of available plug-ins, and so much more. Simply put, nothing else gives you so much for so little.

* Record, mix, play back, & process up to 64 simultaneous tracks.
* Up to 999 virtual tracks
* High-performance, realtime mixing console, with dedicated faders, pans, & other controls
* Automated level mixing with high-resolution moving faders
* Rubberband-style" breakpoint automation
* Mixer states "snapshot-style" scene automation
* Clip-based automation: Copy, Paste, Drag & Drop automation envelopes follow audio regions as they are moved
* 5.1 channel surround mixing capable, with fully automated, track-by-track, multi-algorithmic 360° panning to Left, Center, Right, Surround L, Surround R, plus LFE (subwoofer).
* Surround mixing pan algorithms include Radius 5.1, Variable Width 5.1 and Room Ambiance 5.1.
* Advanced realtime signal processing with VST plug-in support*
* Includes over 25 free VST audio effect plug-ins, including BIAS Freq 4-band paragraphic EQ & BIAS Vbox SE multi-effects control environment
* Built-in realtime DSP effects including Chorus, EQ, Delay, & Multitap
* Support for multiple sample rate & bit depth formats, up to 48kHz & 16-bit**
* SMPTE/EBU timecode-fluent for editing, spotting, & external chase-lock synchronization***
* Slaves with subframe accuracy to external video tape recorders & other transports — ideal for layback & other assembly***
* Import QuickTime movies & synchronize audio-to-picture with better-than-frame accuracy
* Scrub QuickTime movie with full audio chase
* Lightning-fast spotting of audio clips to picture
* ADR (automated dialog replacement) capable
* Monitor previously recorded tracks while recording new tracks (optionally in sync to a QuickTime movie)
* Discontiguous clip selection
* Clip nudging & trimming — with better-than-subframe accuracy
* Sync to external MIDI sequencers***
* Non-destructive punch-in & punch-out
* Master fader with stereo effects bus
* OMF support allows importing from other DAWs such as non-linear video editors including Final Cut Pro, Premiere & Avid
* Use built-in Macintosh audio inputs/outputs or compatible audio interface/card hardware
* Supports most ASIO (OS 9), Sound Manager, & CoreAudio (OS X) compatible audio hardware
* Supports multiple file formats including AIFF, SDII, .WAV, .SND, & QuickTime
* Export sessions as QuickTime movie with multiple format options
* Allows external waveform editor such as Peak to be launched from session
* Includes Peak LE 3 at no extra charge - for advanced sample editing, mastering, and CD burning.
* *Not all bundled VST plug-ins are currently Mac OS X compatible, but can be used in Classic (OS 9.x) mode
* **With compatible hardware; 16-bit/44kHz CD-quality audio with built-in Mac audio in/out
* ***Via third-party CoreMIDI drivers (Mac OS X) or OMS drivers (OS 9)

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