The File Processor

The CEDAR Cambridge File Processor

CEDAR Cambridge V5.1 boasts disk-to-disk and disk-to-world File Processing capabilities These allow users to analyse and process selected parts of, or whole WAV, WAV 64, BWF, and AIFF files, rendering the results back to hard disk (disk-to-disk) in a fraction of the time needed to process audio in real-time. Furthermore, you can use the File Processor as a disk-to-world system, passing WAV, WAV64, BWF, and AIFF files through the processing chain and outputting the results so that you can monitor them in real-time.

Recording

The File Processor now hosts a multi-channel audio recorder capable of recording from one to eight channels simultaneously at sample rates of up to 96kHz. You may record over existing audio, append to existing audio, or create new files from incoming audio. It is also possible to record from a external timecode source, with the recorder cursor tracking the incoming timecode and recording audio that is determined by the timecode signal.

Bext Metadata generation and editing

The File Processor now includes a Bext Metadata generator and editor allowing you to create and/or modify existing metadata associated with the audio file.

We have also made the File Processor in Cambridge V5.1 transparent to existing metadata, both in the BEXT chunk and other chunks, which will pass through the system unharmed if you wish it to do so. And, of course, it's also completely compatible with all existing CEDAR Cambridge processes.

Timecode and timecode generation

CEDAR Cambridge responds to ASIO positioning protocol derived from a suitable audio I/O card as well as to that provided by its own Timecode Automation Controller.

The system outputs timecode in a wide variety of LTC formats when replaying from the File processor. This timecode can be existing timecode attached to a BWAV file, or it can be newly generated by the File processor itself.

Chase Mode

Playback from the File processor can now be sync'd to external timecode, and the system will chase external timecode sources, with vari-speed if required.

Variable speed playback

Existing audio files can be played back at speeds ranging form 10% to 1,000% of the real time, and the resulting audio is always correctly sample-rate converted to produce a high quality audio signal, rather then a grainy or aliased output of some alternatives.

Automation

The File Processor is now able to insert, manipulate and respond to automation events, thus allowing you to set up complex event- and scene- based processing, with morphing if required.

Off-line processing

The File Processor hosts three off-line processes - Manual Declick, Dethump and Retouch 4™ - helping to make even the most intractable of problems quick and simple to rectify. To aid this, CEDAR Cambridge v5.1 has Time Markers that allow you to identify and move to audio events at the touch of a key.

Simplicity and productivity

The clear user-interface provides everything you need on a single screen: intuitive transport controls, variable playback speeds, scrub tool, zooming, sample-accurate looping capabilities, time markers and all the tools needed to process single or multiple audio files quickly and efficiently.