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AM-10HD / Aug 2008
Making Audio Processing History
In 2005 Wheatstone returned to its roots in audio processing with the creation of
Vorsis, a new division of the company. The same year it introduced the model AP-3
Digital Signal Processor at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention
in Las Vegas.
At the following year’s NAB convention, and with more than 100,000 people in
attendance, Vorsis introduced the model HDP3 Digital Multiband Signal Processor and
the revolutionary model AP-1000 Digital Spectral Processor. The AP-1000 garnered
two coveted industry recognitions: the Radio World “Cool Stuff” award and the BE
Radio “Pick Hit”. With its incredible dual 31-band FM and HD “Fine Grain” limiters
and intuitive graphical user interface the AP-1000 set a completely new performance
standard for high-end broadcast audio processors.
At the 2007 NAB Show Vorsis introduced the FM-5 and AM-5HD processors, as
well as the new and hot-selling M1 Microphone Processor.
One year later at the 2008 NAB Show, Vorsis again surprised the broadcast industry
with the introduction of five new audio processing products:
AP-2000 and FM-2000: successors to the well-received AP-1000 introduced just
two years earlier, the AP-2000 is targeted for stations needing the power of its dual
31-band FM and HD limiters, while the FM-2000 has all the features of the AP-2000
except the HD signal path.
AM-10HD and FM-10HD: successors to the AM-5HD and extremely popular
FM-5. The AM-10HD and FM-10HD are equipped with dual signal chains for
separately processing the standard analog and HD signals.
VP-8: the first multimode broadcast audio processor with six built-in processing
modes for FM, AM, FM-HD, AM-HD, MP3/AAC>48k, and MP3/AAC<48k. Audio
modes are changed by simply selecting them from within the Windows-based GUI - no
reboot is required to change from one processing mode to another.
These new Vorsis products are equipped with one or more of the following exclusive
Vorsis-designed algorithms:
- Vorsis Bass Management System
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(VBMS): Finally… clean, deep, low bass
without the distortion that plagues other audio processors. VBMS manages bass by
preventing frequencies that could ‘inter-modulate’ in the main clipper from doing so,
resulting in a dramatically deep low end - and clean midrange - and clean highs –
simultaneously.
