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Dolby Digital Ac3 Pro Plugin 1.0
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Jeri Larrison
Dec 21, 2023, 3:03:27 PM12/21/23
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SurCode & Minnetonka Audio I know of old, and have never had any trouble with them.
Sure there were bugs in the DVDA tool, but their support was always superb.
I do use their DPL II VST plugins and they are rock solid stable here, and I still use their Standalone MLP Lossless encoder and again with no problems at all so I can personally recommend them highly.
Dolby Digital Ac3 Pro Plugin 1.0
Download File https://t.co/0vYFrXl4na
I have now been testing the MInitonka SurCode for Dolby E VST plugins for a day. The encoder works fine a little cumbersome in the Export of a Dolby E stream. You export a Audio Mixdown that needs to be deleted after the export and then it writes a Dolby E WAV File that seems to take a very long time to update until you finally have a full encoded file. The SurCode Decoder keeps crashing the VSTBridge in N5.5.1 so I have not been able to test its functionality at all on my system.
The Neyrinck SoundCode for Dolby E seems to work well as a stand alone Application with really impressive Encoding times and ease of use is better in my opinion to SurCode. I have also not been able to get the VST plugin to work within N 5.5.1 yet as N 5 is not picking them up under the VSTPlugin Directory under the Nuendo 5.5 Program Files directory.
What shows up in N5 plugin information window?
If unchecked, try checking it then rescanning.
Might also be a good idea to look and see if it is on the blacklist - if it is, delete this & restart.
The Minnitonka SurCode plugins are working fine in N5 32bit but keeps on crashing the VSTBridge in 64bit.
It is the Neyrinck Soundcode for Dolby E DEcoder plugin that is still nowhere to be found. I have mailed their support, but no word from them yet.
I have received some great feedback from Minnetonka today although still no word from Neyrinck on their missing vst decoder plug for Win7, tested the Mac installer for the demo and the plugin is there!
Actually, you can export AC3 5.1 audio from Premiere Pro CC 2018.x with a third-party plugin. Unfortunately, such a plugin comes neither free nor cheap, as the $295 cost for the Minnetonka Surcode for Dolby Digital Plus indicates. And be aware that the plugin only adds AC3 encode (export) capability to CC 2018, and cannot restore AC3 decode (playback) capability in CC 2018 if you're running Windows 7.
Sample rate: Use this pop-up menu to set the number of times per second that music waveforms (samples) are captured digitally. The higher the sample rate, the higher the audio quality and the larger the file size.
Rendering audio on Vegas Pro 17 using AC-3 plugin. Get pop-up saying "The selected encode format requires the download of an add-on software module the first time the format is used." Click Yes to proceed. After clicking yes I get a pop-up saying: "Installation failed, code: -1" It recommends re-launching the program as a sys admin which I did. I got the same result. I need to understand the source of this failure and a path to correct it. If anyone has any advice on this issue please let me know. Thanks much. Wayne
SoundCode for Dolby Digital 2 Decode
The decoder plug-in operates as a real time AAX Native 32/64 plug-in or as a non-real time AudioSuite plugin. The plug-in types are located in the Sound Field category of Pro Tools lists of plug-ins.
I have an ASUS Xonar DS sound card and DTS & Dolby Digital decoder connected to the card via optical cable.
The decoder does not have analogue connections and thus digital is the only way to go.
Listening to music (youtube) only on 2 speakers out of 5.1 is also not an option and thus up-mixing system-wide is needed.
Opening a video on youtube, it hangs and the video does not start playing.
Changing the profile to analogue, makes it start and when changing again to digital, while playing, does the job.
This means that for every video, that I open, i have to do that procedure and the same holds true for every other programs that tries to connect to the sound card.
then I restarted ALSA and PulseAudio and opened pavucontrol to set my sound card to the digital profile and it worked!
However, the sound quality is bad, increasing or decreasing the volume makes the sound crack and there is noise in general.
I have tried everything I found in link below to get rid of the problem and improve the quality, but no success.
_quality
Yes You are correct in some way.
There is music recorded in 5.1 format. Pink Floyd and other grat artist release DTS CDs, there are also some concerts released in DVS CD audio like Nirvana Unplugged or Mike Oldfield Milenium Concert.
Spotify can only output stereo, there is no other way Foobar on the other hand can use Matrix plugin or other surround audio plugin to output 5.1 as well as play DTS content, i'm using that setup at this particular moment.
There is some solutions for Spotify
The downside to using an entirely software-based solution is increased latency (over hardware or just leaving it as stereo without encoding audio into digital). It may not be an issue for most people but it might drive latency sensitive twitch gamers a bit mad.
Unfortunately, Sonarworks does not offer multichannel support yet so for it to be applied to front L/R in a 5.1 speaker configuration, I need to use a 3rd party standalone plugin called Patchwork and insert the plugin between a digital loop (not to convert twice). In my case, I'm looping AES Out into AES In and inserting the Reference 4 plugin in between. In patchwork, I'm assigning inputs to AES L/R and outputs to Analog 7/8. I then use totalmix to send software playback of 7/8 to what Main L/R.
Yes I've tried pretty much every scenario and I would in fact need some sort of decoding software in front of totalmix. It's unfortunate that the UFX cannot decode digital signals such as Dolby Digital and DTS. It seems pretty standard nowadays. The optical ports are there and the interface has DSP so I'm assuming it wouldn't be to hard to implement.
It's only a delivery format, much like MP3 is not used when recording. For single-cable multichannel digital audio, ADAT, MADI, and AVB are the studio standards. I doubt seriously you'll find Dolby decoding on anything pro grade except for final-playback receivers in test rooms and cinemas, and Dolby encoding is usually done in software during the final master stage when format-conversion is baked into the resulting output bitstreams.
You can deliver multi-channel audio using any conventional two-channel digital delivery format, by encoding your surround content using one of the 'matrixing' systems. These are Dolby Surround and Pro Logic, both of which offer a four-channel surround system consisting of Left, Centre, Right and a mono Surround (rear) channel. Then there is Dolby Pro Logic II, which offers stereo surrounds as well as the three front channels. Finally, there is Circle Surround from SRS, which can provide a Dolby Pro Logic-compatible output or, with the matching SRS decoder in the consumer's system, offer an additional Centre Surround channel, so providing a 6.1 delivery format. The advantages of these formats are that they don't need any special delivery hardware, Pro Logic decoders can be found in most, if not all, domestic surround systems, and no data compression is used. The down side is that the matrixing system means the separation between the various channels will be compromised, and anyone without the correct decoder will hear the encoded audio, usually described as LtRt.
Finally, Dolby E is a format developed by Dolby to enable broadcasters to distribute eight channels of audio through their existing two-channel AES3 digital infrastructure, and doesn't normally appear outside the broadcast production chain.
It is possible to use the decoder to decode a digital stream from a DVD player straight into the Pro Tools environment, which is useful when you want to compare your mix against a commercial DVD without leaving Pro Tools. You simply need to connect the DVD's digital output to the S/PDIF input on your Pro Tools interface, and pick up that digital input from within the plug-in. Conversely, the decoder can also be used to output a Dolby Digital AC3 file as a bitstream from a Pro Tools interface digital output, so you can make a reference CD or DVD disc to check your mix and the encoding on various consumer playback systems, assuming you have a suitable authoring package.
Well heck, I can do that! I use Jriver as my music server software ( ) and one of its cool features is the ability the use third-party VST plugins. Plugins are software programs used in digital audio workstations for recording and mixing music. Instead of patching an analog box (compressor, EQ, de-esser, etc) into an analog mixing console, a plugin is used to perform the same function in the digital domain. There are a number of no-cost mid-side plugins available for download, so I can try this for free!
Russ, after several attempts, and failures I finally realized that in spite of running on a 64 bit platform, I still must obtain the 32 bit version in order for this to work. So now the plugin is installed and I will test it some and determine how much it adds to the mix.
I am currently enjoying a tube based 12AX7 harmonic model plugin. My favorite tubes are 12AX7 and EL34. Makes sense to me to listen to music emulating the same type of equipment the music was created and performed on.
0aad45d008
Sure there were bugs in the DVDA tool, but their support was always superb.
I do use their DPL II VST plugins and they are rock solid stable here, and I still use their Standalone MLP Lossless encoder and again with no problems at all so I can personally recommend them highly.
Dolby Digital Ac3 Pro Plugin 1.0
Download File https://t.co/0vYFrXl4na
I have now been testing the MInitonka SurCode for Dolby E VST plugins for a day. The encoder works fine a little cumbersome in the Export of a Dolby E stream. You export a Audio Mixdown that needs to be deleted after the export and then it writes a Dolby E WAV File that seems to take a very long time to update until you finally have a full encoded file. The SurCode Decoder keeps crashing the VSTBridge in N5.5.1 so I have not been able to test its functionality at all on my system.
The Neyrinck SoundCode for Dolby E seems to work well as a stand alone Application with really impressive Encoding times and ease of use is better in my opinion to SurCode. I have also not been able to get the VST plugin to work within N 5.5.1 yet as N 5 is not picking them up under the VSTPlugin Directory under the Nuendo 5.5 Program Files directory.
What shows up in N5 plugin information window?
If unchecked, try checking it then rescanning.
Might also be a good idea to look and see if it is on the blacklist - if it is, delete this & restart.
The Minnitonka SurCode plugins are working fine in N5 32bit but keeps on crashing the VSTBridge in 64bit.
It is the Neyrinck Soundcode for Dolby E DEcoder plugin that is still nowhere to be found. I have mailed their support, but no word from them yet.
I have received some great feedback from Minnetonka today although still no word from Neyrinck on their missing vst decoder plug for Win7, tested the Mac installer for the demo and the plugin is there!
Actually, you can export AC3 5.1 audio from Premiere Pro CC 2018.x with a third-party plugin. Unfortunately, such a plugin comes neither free nor cheap, as the $295 cost for the Minnetonka Surcode for Dolby Digital Plus indicates. And be aware that the plugin only adds AC3 encode (export) capability to CC 2018, and cannot restore AC3 decode (playback) capability in CC 2018 if you're running Windows 7.
Sample rate: Use this pop-up menu to set the number of times per second that music waveforms (samples) are captured digitally. The higher the sample rate, the higher the audio quality and the larger the file size.
Rendering audio on Vegas Pro 17 using AC-3 plugin. Get pop-up saying "The selected encode format requires the download of an add-on software module the first time the format is used." Click Yes to proceed. After clicking yes I get a pop-up saying: "Installation failed, code: -1" It recommends re-launching the program as a sys admin which I did. I got the same result. I need to understand the source of this failure and a path to correct it. If anyone has any advice on this issue please let me know. Thanks much. Wayne
SoundCode for Dolby Digital 2 Decode
The decoder plug-in operates as a real time AAX Native 32/64 plug-in or as a non-real time AudioSuite plugin. The plug-in types are located in the Sound Field category of Pro Tools lists of plug-ins.
I have an ASUS Xonar DS sound card and DTS & Dolby Digital decoder connected to the card via optical cable.
The decoder does not have analogue connections and thus digital is the only way to go.
Listening to music (youtube) only on 2 speakers out of 5.1 is also not an option and thus up-mixing system-wide is needed.
Opening a video on youtube, it hangs and the video does not start playing.
Changing the profile to analogue, makes it start and when changing again to digital, while playing, does the job.
This means that for every video, that I open, i have to do that procedure and the same holds true for every other programs that tries to connect to the sound card.
then I restarted ALSA and PulseAudio and opened pavucontrol to set my sound card to the digital profile and it worked!
However, the sound quality is bad, increasing or decreasing the volume makes the sound crack and there is noise in general.
I have tried everything I found in link below to get rid of the problem and improve the quality, but no success.
_quality
Yes You are correct in some way.
There is music recorded in 5.1 format. Pink Floyd and other grat artist release DTS CDs, there are also some concerts released in DVS CD audio like Nirvana Unplugged or Mike Oldfield Milenium Concert.
Spotify can only output stereo, there is no other way Foobar on the other hand can use Matrix plugin or other surround audio plugin to output 5.1 as well as play DTS content, i'm using that setup at this particular moment.
There is some solutions for Spotify
The downside to using an entirely software-based solution is increased latency (over hardware or just leaving it as stereo without encoding audio into digital). It may not be an issue for most people but it might drive latency sensitive twitch gamers a bit mad.
Unfortunately, Sonarworks does not offer multichannel support yet so for it to be applied to front L/R in a 5.1 speaker configuration, I need to use a 3rd party standalone plugin called Patchwork and insert the plugin between a digital loop (not to convert twice). In my case, I'm looping AES Out into AES In and inserting the Reference 4 plugin in between. In patchwork, I'm assigning inputs to AES L/R and outputs to Analog 7/8. I then use totalmix to send software playback of 7/8 to what Main L/R.
Yes I've tried pretty much every scenario and I would in fact need some sort of decoding software in front of totalmix. It's unfortunate that the UFX cannot decode digital signals such as Dolby Digital and DTS. It seems pretty standard nowadays. The optical ports are there and the interface has DSP so I'm assuming it wouldn't be to hard to implement.
It's only a delivery format, much like MP3 is not used when recording. For single-cable multichannel digital audio, ADAT, MADI, and AVB are the studio standards. I doubt seriously you'll find Dolby decoding on anything pro grade except for final-playback receivers in test rooms and cinemas, and Dolby encoding is usually done in software during the final master stage when format-conversion is baked into the resulting output bitstreams.
You can deliver multi-channel audio using any conventional two-channel digital delivery format, by encoding your surround content using one of the 'matrixing' systems. These are Dolby Surround and Pro Logic, both of which offer a four-channel surround system consisting of Left, Centre, Right and a mono Surround (rear) channel. Then there is Dolby Pro Logic II, which offers stereo surrounds as well as the three front channels. Finally, there is Circle Surround from SRS, which can provide a Dolby Pro Logic-compatible output or, with the matching SRS decoder in the consumer's system, offer an additional Centre Surround channel, so providing a 6.1 delivery format. The advantages of these formats are that they don't need any special delivery hardware, Pro Logic decoders can be found in most, if not all, domestic surround systems, and no data compression is used. The down side is that the matrixing system means the separation between the various channels will be compromised, and anyone without the correct decoder will hear the encoded audio, usually described as LtRt.
Finally, Dolby E is a format developed by Dolby to enable broadcasters to distribute eight channels of audio through their existing two-channel AES3 digital infrastructure, and doesn't normally appear outside the broadcast production chain.
It is possible to use the decoder to decode a digital stream from a DVD player straight into the Pro Tools environment, which is useful when you want to compare your mix against a commercial DVD without leaving Pro Tools. You simply need to connect the DVD's digital output to the S/PDIF input on your Pro Tools interface, and pick up that digital input from within the plug-in. Conversely, the decoder can also be used to output a Dolby Digital AC3 file as a bitstream from a Pro Tools interface digital output, so you can make a reference CD or DVD disc to check your mix and the encoding on various consumer playback systems, assuming you have a suitable authoring package.
Well heck, I can do that! I use Jriver as my music server software ( ) and one of its cool features is the ability the use third-party VST plugins. Plugins are software programs used in digital audio workstations for recording and mixing music. Instead of patching an analog box (compressor, EQ, de-esser, etc) into an analog mixing console, a plugin is used to perform the same function in the digital domain. There are a number of no-cost mid-side plugins available for download, so I can try this for free!
Russ, after several attempts, and failures I finally realized that in spite of running on a 64 bit platform, I still must obtain the 32 bit version in order for this to work. So now the plugin is installed and I will test it some and determine how much it adds to the mix.
I am currently enjoying a tube based 12AX7 harmonic model plugin. My favorite tubes are 12AX7 and EL34. Makes sense to me to listen to music emulating the same type of equipment the music was created and performed on.
0aad45d008
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