REQ: Soundminer V6 Pro and Plus
Some Key New Features include:
Apple Silicon Native for MAC / Intel Native Universal Binary for Windows.
Metal Graphic rendering on MAC. GPU acceleration on Windows.
Much faster and retina capable. Zoom in and out of the waveform without stalling.
Tabs in your Search Returns - Do a search, keep the returns active and open a new tab to start another search. Drag items from one tab to another(if permission allows). Tabs can represent different views/layouts of the same database, or of a different database entirely. Searches can be optionally performed across open tabs. Available in all versions.
AAX Soundminer Surround Monitor (ReWire replacement). Instantiate a version of the plugin appropriate for your needs (Stereo up to 7.1) and the application will stream into it. Now in all versions!
Assignable key commands. Every function in the application can have a key command assigned to it.
AAX Radium plugin(PRO only) - Put Radium right into your Pro Tools environment.
XRay Waveforms(PLUS and higher) - Colouring of waveform based on a histogram type view showing the low/mid/high frequency content. The radar overview can be set to show the centroid (or dominant frequency) visually as well.
RadFX Rack(PLUS+) - Built in Soundminer FX now available on the main screen along with meters and frequency analysis. These FX are recallable in recorded/transferred sounds and can be used to process sounds going into Radium (if user has ProPack).
Grain Engine(Plus or higher). Set a slot to grain mode. With controls over random pan, pitch, speed and size of the grains. Combine with TSE Doppler. Great for magic fx, rudimentary granular sample playback (to play a sound at the same speed but different pitches across keyboard) or just to create a constant layer for use in sidechaining/envelope following. Lots of fun to create magic or scifi sounds.
Fold Down DSP plugin(PRO and ProPack) - Great for multi-mic recordings to balance and pan(either LR or LCR but can fold down any number of channels) and combine legs. Will even allow you to choose a channel as a Side (in an M/S setup), and delay certain channels
Surround panner in Radium(PROPACK AND UP). Take your mono or stereo sounds and pan them up to 5.0.
For clarity, the new consolidation of products means that PRO = PLUS + Client Server module+ProPack. Those buying PLUS with ProPack are getting the same features as Pro except for the Server compatibility and connectivity.