WELCOME TO PRODUCTIONPARTNER RCN is pleased to present version 1.67 of ProductionPartner, a professional tool for harddisk-recording, playing, editing and archiving of high quality (CD) sounds. You can rearrange, cut, paste and edit sounds. Sounds can be collected in archives called playlists which are unities within ProductionPartner. In addition text, images and movies may be used in a .rtfd file which is attached to each sound for description or background info on sound, like in a CD database. The program may be used to master audio CDs. Support for NeXT Computer and Intel based NEXTSTEP systems is available now. On Intel based Systems you need a NEXTSTEP supported sound card (we recommend SoundBlaster16, new Plug & Play cards not tested yet). For SUN and HP workstations ProductionPartner is available too, but for both architectures the current version is a beta release. SPECIAL OFFER AND RAFFLE OFF FREE LICENSES UNTIL APRIL 8th, 1996 RCN raffles three licenses of ProductionPartner. Until April 8th, 1996 you can participate by ordering your test license now! Tell us the name and the host id of your computer and we will send you a full license valid for two weeks. Everybody cannot win, so RCN afford all others of this raffle a 20 percent reduced price for a full ProductionPartner license who order his test license up to April 8th this year. *** CALL US NOW AND WIN PRODUCTIONPARTNER **** ABOUT PRODUCTIONPARTNER ProductionPartner is a NEXTSTEP application for recording, playing, editing and archiving of sounds. You can play, cut, paste and edit sounds. Sounds can be collected and rearranged in archives called playlists which are unities within ProductionPartner. Via documents (list of sounds) you can easily administrate sounds or search and find text marks. Therefore besides the sound data ProductionPartner stores additional informations (e. g. the author of the sound or any other comments) in .rtfd format. By the way sound files can be located on other machines within a network; the sounds will be linked or copied. Thus you can include graphics, videos or pictures in your audio archive just like in a multimedia archive. A comfortable sound editor permits displaying and cutting of sounds, subsequent level change and other effects. BroadcastPartner: We offer an extention for ProductionPartner called BroadcastPartner which offers you an automation of radio broadcast. Another extension to ProductionPartner to distribute music through networks for music production and publication firms is under development, special solutions are available. For further informations please contact RCN. Special features of ProductionPartner compared with other sound applications available for NEXTSTEP: * ProductionPartner is the only NEXTSTEP application which enables you to record sounds in CD quality (44.1 kHz, stereo) on intel hardware * ProductionPartner is a harddisc recording AND playing system, your swapdisc won't grow if you use big sounds. Therefore ProductionPartner doesn't need much more memory to play big sounds. * ProductionPartner can play sounds longer than six minutes. Because of a bug in NEXTSTEP normally you can't do this so almost all other sound applications fail to play such sounds! * ProductionPartner has a time bar to jump to any position in your sound or sound list WITHOUT delay during playback even using very large sounds! You can do this with a single mouse click. * The editor of ProductionPartner supports a reduction factor smaller one so you can zoom in as far as you want! Moreover, it's much faster than most of the other sound editors, and it needs less memory. * ProductionPartner offers you a frontend for making backups (tar format) of your sound library on a streamer or other devices. Support for NeXT Computer and Intel based NEXTSTEP systems is available now. On Intel based Systems you need a NEXTSTEP supported sound card (we recommend SoundBlaster16, new Plug & Play cards not tested yet). For SUN and HP workstations ProductionPartner is available too, but for both architectures the current version is a beta release. If you don't have any sound card RCN offers a bundle including a sound card or with any oterh hardware you need. Call RCN for details. ProductionPartner is a demo version which can be licensed. You find the newest version at the following internet locations: ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/new/audio/apps/commercial ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/Audio ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/sound ORDER YOUR FREE TEST LICENSE Your can order your personal free test license. Tell us the name and the host id of your computer and we will send you a full license valid for two weeks. NORMAL PRICES At the moment the following prices are valid: $275 for the ProductionPartner 1.67 (user license) $295 for the ProductionPartner 1.67 (machine license) call RCN for a network license SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL APRIL 8th, 1996 After testing ProductionPartner we offer you a 20 percent discount (valid until April 8th, 1996): $220 for the ProductionPartner 1.67 (user license) $235 for the ProductionPartner 1.67 (machine license) For getting a license or licenseable version please contact RCN. We accept MC, VISA, money order or checks. Realtime Computing and Nets (RCN) Flotowstrasse 2 D - 12203 Berlin Germany TEL + 49 30 834 01 07 FAX + 49 30 834 01 08 GSM + 49 172 300 09 95 email info@rcnhost.dasburo.de To order a license please send us the following informations: * Username and HostID (user license) * HostID (machine license) * Number of Users and one HostID (network license) ABOUT RCN Realtime Computing and Nets (RCN) was founded in 1989 by engineers who worked on research problems at the Technical University of Berlin; among others the research areas of RCN are acoustics, sound engineering, broadcast and radio management systems, audio and video database systems, digital signal processing, instrumentation, communication, satellite and navigation systems. Copyright (c) 1996 RCN Realtime Computing and Nets. All brand names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.