Professional Audio Filter

20100401
I'm pleased to announce the first public "beta" release of the Professional Audio Filter (PAF).

Some of the controls and installers are a little rough yet, and on occasion it's been known to crash in a shower of brightly colored confetti, but I think it's worth getting it out there for wider testing.

The object of the filter is to convert whomever you shot in the field and in whatever bad conditions to a quiet, polished, professional-sounding voice track.

Intensity and phase adjustments are provided to suppress "white" or microphone self-noise, proximity effect, competing voices, street noise, engine roar, large and small auditorium echoes, air conditioning compressors, vent whistle, and within reason, clipping, crosstalk, cracking, and overload distortion.

Whimsey is alive and well in Los Angeles. We are preparing an announcer module with pitch, sibilance, and depth controls that we're calling, for obvious reasons, 'LaFontaine.' "In a World..."

I've been working with the programmers here in LA and friends at other audio web sites and forums to pull together a lot of different efforts. I aim to be "Welch."

If you remember in LZW Compression, Lempel and Ziv were the world-class data compression Subject Matter Experts with no organizational or people skills. Welch was the one who got them both into a room and said nobody was leaving until they generated an integrated product. And he had a gun. Nothing like adding Smith and Wesson to the team to polish those people skills.

We've included installers for all the major audio software packages: SoundTrack Pro, Audition, Audacity, ProTools, AVS, etc. We even got one to work in the older, revered Cool Edit.

It's open source on all three platforms.

Enjoy

[www.kozco.com]

Love it. Using it now.

Michael Horton
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WOW! Can't beat that price.

The download link is broken Koz, can you check it at your end?

definitely will be using this on all future productions.
and am talking with the producer right now about laying off our over-priced sound recordist.


nick

Wow. A cross platform PAF!



www.strypesinpost.com

We consider that more and more people will rely on this filter and find they can extricate themselves from worse and worse capture conditions. Soon, someone will discover they can leave the microphone in the car and still go home with a ratty but usable track.

Koz

<<<The download link is broken Koz, can you check it at your end?>>>

The hosting service tells me the server overloaded. I'd try hosting it myself except I got DSLExtreme's "Tortuga" package....

Koz

> Soon, someone will discover they can leave the microphone in the car and still go home with a
> ratty but usable track.

What are you talking about, Koz? That thing works in a car, too!
And as an esophageal implant.
And as a neuron recorder that records your voice directly from your brain's speech center, even before the signal reaches your vocal cords.


www.derekmok.com

Hey man this is great. I just processed my scratch track through it and saved $1500 on professional narration. It just ROCKS.

It also allows for realtime audio playback and recording in AE or PS.
WOW i really love this thing. I purchase the 50 licensee deal they had on the product specials page. Its only 499. for the extra speech region converter.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

<<<And as a neuron recorder that records your voice directly from your brain's speech center, even before the signal reaches your vocal cords.>>>

That's the two saline pads with the coil-cords, yes. The guy in Portugal is developing that module. We're looking for someone with Tourette's to test it on. One of two things is likely to happen, you get the best straight, perfect recording in the announcer's life, or the best YouTube video ever.

Koz

<<<Its only 499. for the extra speech region converter.>>>

I was going to say. That's an add-on. The base program is under the GNU-GPL. Did you check the region list? Some of the regions are hack jobs of other regions instead of the real thing.

We gave up on it. Not enough regions represented. The Irish developer is working on the Male/Female transition module. Surprising demand for that one. Kids is harder. Any volunteers?

Koz

Will you take a check?

Are you going to be releasing it as a plug for FCP? I hate having to go out to a whole other program for this stuff...

I doubt it. The endian issues moving between the different softwares are a right royal pain. Koz will have to keep it Photoshop-only until they can hire more developers.



www.strypesinpost.com

Well get on it, dammit! In a couple of days I'm going to be getting a voice with the ocker turned up to eleven. Is there a function for turning an outback Aussie accent into Top Gear BBC? Pitch and nasal removal maybe? I haven't bothered actually installing the filter yet..

Jude, my love, my darling. You're on the other side of the frigging date line. April Fools is over already! Please stop making me click things and feel dumb!

And that Philip Bloom is a right bastard, is what he is.

"Is there a function for turning an outback Aussie accent into Top Gear BBC?"

it auto detects gaps in the audio, and analyses for upward inflections at ends of sentences,
then applies pitch shifting algorithms to alleviate.

What's worse is I'm actually IN THE FUTURE compared to you guys. So I knew damn well it was over

And yes, we do have flying cars here.

But do you have iPads? NO! Just one day in the future, NOT FUTURE ENOUGH.

Wow, Nick, that might actually work. Strine correction lol.

An audio plug-in for Photoshop. Now there's a thought.

What time is it in Portugal...

Koz

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And yes, we do have flying cars here.

And Drop Bears. Very future stuff

Michael Horton
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