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I found another document on the web containing a detailed description of the product, and even a chart comparing it to the competition. WL5 seems to have an impressive number of useful features, the only weak point being the lack of support for MLP; other than that, it really looks like a dream come true.Mathias
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Did You remember what I said a long time ago about the entrance of major audio software house on DVD-A market?
Now is the time of Steinberg the next will be SonicFoundry or Syntrillium-Sony!
Probably hard times are coming for Minnetonka Steel, or we will see new important improovments to fight concurrents!
I hope so because today I love Steel.
Bye Bye
The only thing it doesn't do is make coffee :)Doing both the CD version and the DVD-A version from the same software will be attractive to many musicians and independent labels, I think.
In the .pdf that Mathias links to it mentions that Wavelab 5 does not support for MLP. This means that a maximum of 4 channels of 96/24 are possible (I think it's called "Quad"!). No compression on these 4 channels though. Nor does Wavelab 5 support CPPM.
As Denis correctly pointed out, Wavelab 5 does not support MLP. I can only suppose that this is a consequence of Meridian's/Dolby's licensing policy. The Meridian encoder currently is priced at $2500, as is Minnetonka's SurCode MLP - and the latter is basically a shell around the original Meridian encoder, with some features added. While I definitely think that Meridian/Dolby should reconsider their pricing, this has not yet happend. However, they will have to do something about it (why not put MLP in the public domain?): if you can get an authoring program for only $99, the current MLP price no longer fits.Steinberg obviously wants to sell a mass market product, so probably the inclusion of any encoding scheme that would have cost more than, say, $50 per license, was out of the question.
BTW: 96 kHz, 5 ch at 20 bits should be within the limits of a non-MLP DVD-Audio.
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