iZotope Partners with Akai to Provide Loop Slicing & Time Stretching for MPCs

[The Press Desk at Gearslutz.com]

iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in digital audio signal processing, announces a new partnership with Akai Professional to provide iZotope’s acclaimed Radius® time-stretching algorithm and Loop Slicing Engine for future products in the MPC line, including the new MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio. Combining MPC hardware with new MPC software, these are the first MPCs designed to harness the processing power of a user’s Mac or PC.

iZotope’s Loop Slicing Engine
The Loop Slicing Engine provides an extended suite of slicing tools, compatible with both Chop Shop and REX file formats. The engine’s unique algorithm maintains high quality audio throughout real-time loop manipulation while remaining lightweight in terms of processing power.

The MPC line takes advantage of additional features such as:

Manual and automatic loop slicing
Slicing and stretching with per-slice stretching options
Triggering of individual slices or the entire loop from beginning to end
Transient detection
Pitch shifting via cents or semitones

iZotope Radius
The MPC line is the most recent of many popular products that license this world-class algorithm for natural and transparent time stretching and pitch shifting.

Availability Akai Professional will unveil MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio at booth #6400 at the 2012 NAMM Show from January 19—22 in Anaheim, California. Both will be available for purchase in Q3 2012.iZotope’s Loop Slicing Engine, Radius, and a host of other audio technologies are currently available for third-party licensing. For more information, contact licensing@izotope.com or visit iZotope Technology Licensing - audio DSP tools and effects.