The nexStage line provides essential tools for any full service facility. Functionality ranges from “format conversion” or file format transcoding to authoring and premastering. Transcoding from DSD to linear PCM maintains the high level of fidelity captured in the DSD master while allowing you to process and distribute in the PCM space.
Now that DSD recorders are affordable, engineers who appreciate the sound of quality analog gear can finally adopt a hybrid production method that incorporates the best of their analog signal blocks with DSD digital recording and delivery. Wrapping DSD around a traditional analog workflow preserves the subjective “analog sound” while also future –proofing the assets in the digital domain.
nexStage AFC provides fully adjustable and bidirectional PCM to DSD and DSD to PCM conversion. This means you can start with a DSD master and convert it to whatever sample rate and word length you need for your final product, from 44.1/16 for CD on up to 192 k/24 for DVD-Audio, all while retaining the subjectively superior quality of the DSD original.
nexStage AFC also multiplexes, de-multiplexes and remodulates DSD data, creating DSDIFF Masters. It even supports up to 384 kHz LPCM in case you need to include intermediary LPCM processing or need interoperablility with PCM–only DAWs. For Windows 2000 & Windows XP.