zplane -- music processing and analysis technology

zplane's tempo and beat tracking algorithm [aufTAKT] V3 is now available for all Apple products (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) supporting iOS4.

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zplane releases [aufTAKT] V3, a technology for automatic tempo and beat analysis of music files. [aufTAKT] is able to identify the tempo and musical beat locations in an audio file and can be found as an integral part of numerous applications in the DJ and music production field.

The [aufTAKT] V3 features:

• improved tempo detection stability
• automatic downbeat detection
• automatic detection of time signature
• additional "forced straight tempo"- mode for electronic music
• alternative use of the [aufTAKT] V2 engine for backward compatibility

[aufTAKT] can be licensed as Software Developers Kit (SDK). For further information please visit the [aufTAKT] page or contact us via email.

zplane [aufTAKT], a technology for automatic tempo and beat analysis of music files, will be updated to version 3 in early 2010. [aufTAKT] is able to identify the tempo and musical beat locations in an audio file and can be found as an integral part of numerous applications in the DJ and music production field.

The new version will offer:

• improved tempo detection stability
• automatic downbeat detection
• automatic detection of time signature
• additional "forced straight tempo"- mode for electronic music

[aufTAKT] can be licensed as Software Developers Kit (SDK). For further information please visit the [aufTAKT] page or contact us via email.

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This update fixes a bug causing a crash on OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) systems. Versions >1.3 are not affected.
Customers still using version 1.3 of élastique efficient please send an email in order to receive the update.

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zplane announces a new commercial product, the ELASTIQUE plugin for real time pitch shifting.
With a plugin interface designed to allow quick and easy interaction with all parameters, elastique is designed to be the optimal plugin for pitch shifting in film and audio conversion applications, for sound design and for adjusting pitch in recording and rehearsal sessions.
The key features of ELASTIQUE are:

• multi channel: support for synchronous pitching of up to 8 audio channels
• real time: no offline pre-analysis required
• program independence: high pitch shifting quality for all types of audio (speech, monophonic, classical music, mixes, etc.)
• phase coherence: absolute phase stability between all channels
• MIDI pitch control
• formant shifting: moving of formants independent from pitch
• factory presets: typical film pull-up/pull-down settings

ELASTIQUE pitch plugin is available for RTAS (Mac OS X, Windows) at an MSRP of $499/€449.

More information online at products.zplane.de.

AtAAK! provides the mechanism for the automatic synchronization of two similar audio files. By analyzing the similarity over time between the files AtAAK! automatically applies time stretching to one file to synchronize the audio files. Thus, timing differences between different tracks of recordings can be automatically or semi-automatically be removed.

This SDK is a fusion of our research results on new music analysis systems with our work on artifact-free time-stretching solutions.

Typical applications are the adjustment of timing between two vocal lines, the automatic tempo correction of different recording takes when editing classical music and the automatic synchronization of overdubbed and (distorted) original speech.

Key features of AtAAK! are:

• Simultaneous measurement in four domains: Pitch, Timbre, Loudness and Onset Times, providing optimal customization for each file the process is applied to
• industry standard élastique Pro time stretching engine integrated into the SDK
• User-definable reference synchronization points

The SDK is immediately available from us. Please contact us directly.

If you are interested what's new at zplane, visit us at our demo station at the best service booth (Hall 5.1 A71)! We will certainly have something new to show...

If you are interested in licensing our technology, please contact us via email so we can set up a personal appointment with you.

Looking forward to see you there!

We are looking for beta testers for an upcoming plugin product of ours. It will be a simple, real time and straight forward RTAS plugin.

We plan to enter the beta phase during the next two weeks, so if you are interested, we would appreciate it if you could contact us at info [at] zplane.de.

Before you apply to beta testing this plugin, please make sure that you have Pro Tools as a test host installed as this plugin will be RTAS only. In your email, please include a short description what qualifies you as a beta tester, your user name in our forum (registration free) as well as your iLok user name.

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zplane.development release version 1.5 of vielklang. vielklang is an audio harmonization instrument for easy generation of vocal or instrumental harmonies with up to four voices. The utilization of voice leading and harmony progression models allows vielklang to create harmony parts in a more musical way than traditional harmony processors and makes it a versatile and creative tool for musicians, songwriters and producers.

The new version adds the following main features:

• live MIDI input: play chords or voicings directly with the keyboard to control vielklangs harmonization
• new harmonization styles: 3-voice intelligent, Block Chords, Fauxbourdon, Organum
• new export options: Audio/MIDI File Export for individual voices, MIDI export of harmony tracks
• improved input melody analysis: new note detection algorithm improves accuracy and robustness
• Ready for Pro Tools 8

Read more at the vielklang page.

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The new version offers many fixes and performance improvements - the detailed list of changes is:

• performance improvements:
  • élastique Pro: general performance optimizations (up to 10% gain in certain applications)
  • élastique efficient: performance optimizations for pitching modes (up to 25% gain)
  • improved workload usage of Reset () API method
• new features:
  • new synchronization mode for real-time pitch shifting applications
• fixes:
  • several minor and major fixes in Reset () API method
  • élastique Pro: frame calculation in FlushBuffer () API method
  • élastique efficient: frame calculation in ProcessData () API method

Who doesn't want to present the highest audio quality to his customers even if the final product has to be a CD with 16 Bit at 44.1 kHz? With carefully tuned Dithering, Noise-Shaping and Sample Rate Conversion algorithms, the <dns> SDK now offers the optimal solution to this dilemma!

Years ago, we had to discontinue our Scope-Plugin z.matrix. Now we are glad to announce that our friends at Sonic Core have taken over: z.matrix surround panning plugin is now developed, supported and distributed by Sonic Core. Learn more at their product site!

z.matrix surround panning plugin can control the movement of 16 sound sources in a field of up to 16 loudspeakers. Each source can be controlled individually or within a group via mouse or MIDI. Both live sources and recorded sounds can be processed with only 1 sample latency!

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The SDK is immediately available from us as an upgrade or evaluation copy. Please contact us directly. The demo has also been updated and fixes some SSE3 issues.

The SDK is immediately available from us as an upgrade or evaluation copy. Please contact us directly.

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zplane unveil version 2 of the time stretching and pitch shifting engines élastique Pro and élastique efficient. élastique stretching can be found as an integral part of numerous digital audio workstations and DJ applications.

The new version offers many audio quality enhancements, including better transient preservation, increased bass resolution and improved high tonal frequency processing. Many optimizations and new interface functionality improve the performance, integration and handling of élastique significantly.
The win32 demo and the SDK documentation will be available online soon. Meanwhile, please find some more detailed information on the élastique page.

about élastique

The élastique time stretching engines are used in many applications of the music, film, broadcast, and entertainment industry. Transparent audio quality combined with real-time processing capabilities have made élastique the de facto standard for time scaling in real-time audio applications.

Typical applications are:

• master tempo and key lock for DJ applications
• beat and pitch modification for audio applications
• slowdown of recordings for practice and transcription
• time and pitch adjustment for film post-production

Learn more at the M-Audio Torq page.

zplane announces the impending release of the second generation of our élastique time stretching and pitch shifting family. [The preliminary demo is not available anymore. For more info and a current demo application, please visit the élastique page].
Feel free to discuss the new élastique in our forum.

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We have completely overhauled our website: new design, new content, new structure. Take a look at the new site and tell us what you think!

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Version 1.1 now offers support for the RTAS interface and includes the following new features:

• two-voice harmonization mode, generating only a second voice in a typical backing vocal style
• availability of 7th chords
• timing humanization control
• single note splitting and muting
• drag’n’drop and file export of audio and midi data

Find the new version directly on the vielklang download page.

Today zplane.development announced the availability of vielklang, a plug-in instrument for instant audio harmonization. vielklang generates up to four voices from a single-voiced audio input. The progression of each individual voice is controlled by sophisticated harmony progression and voice leading models, resulting in musically meaningful harmonization without any configuration efforts.
With vielklang musicians can easily generate and prototype natural-sounding background vocals and brass sections, modify melodies and single-voiced loops in terms of pitch and scale, and experiment with various harmonizations or chords triggered by different MIDI-inputs. It allows the user to synthesize up to four voices, edit harmonies and single pitches, and convert audio to MIDI.
The four voices don't simply move in parallel, their individual progression is controlled by a complete set of voice leading rules and sophisticated harmony progression models. This musical intelligence and knowledge lets the user focus entirely on musical issues, rather than technical or theoretical ones. vielklang helps to achieve musically meaningful results without having to bother about root note, scale, tuning frequency, harmony progression and voice leading.
While vielklang provides instant and meaningful results, experienced users also have the option of changing harmonization parameters like the range (ambitus) or distribution of the voices, modifying root note and scale, editing single harmonies and changing individual pitches in each of the voices.

vielklang’s main features:

• instant 4-voice harmonization of any single-voiced audio input
• integrated voice leading and harmony progression models, resulting in entirely natural-sounding automatic harmonization
• one-click modification of key scales and harmonies
• high quality, formant preserving, flexible pitch shifting
• audio-to-MIDI functionality for all voices
• customizable user interface

vielklang is available for AU and VST for OSX and Windows at vielklang.zplane.de for an introductory offer of Euro 159,- / USD 199,- until May 31^st, 2007. After that vielklang retails for Euro 179,-/ USD 249,-

Version 2 of [tONaRT] automatic key detection focusses on internal optimizations. It contains a complete rewrite of the polyphonic pitch estimation [tONaRT] utilizes for the key detection. Furthermore, due to the weighted combination of several different key detection approaches, the overall reliability has been significantly improved.
[tONaRT] key detection can be licensed as software developers kit (SDK) for various operating systems and platforms. 

The previously released music/speech segmentation SDK is now re-released, and includes an additional training SDK. This allows the user to customize the classification and adapt the algorithm towards his specific use cases.

Version 2 of the reverberation SDK z.reverb provides a new high quality mode that features a significant quality improvement to previous versions. Naturally, the previous quality modes are still available.

The latest release augments the high quality time stretching and pitch shifting algorithm élastique Pro (V1.5) with a polyphonic formant preserving pitch shifting option. This way polyphonic instruments or choirs keep their natural character when being pitch shifted.

As one of the first companies, zplane reacted to the official release of the new IntelMacs, and makes all zplane products and SDKs are available for this new platform.