Weiss SARACON PCM Sampling Rate Conversion Software - Electronic Delivery

Whether for working on multiple projects with different sample rates or for delivering audio to various distribution outlets, a quality sample rate converter is a must-have. Wiess SARACON runs on Mac or Windows computers and offers the highest possible quality sample rate, bit rate, and digital audio format conversion. Use it for all your in-the-box conversion needs, whether you are working on single files or entire file batches.

PERFECT CONVERSIONS

SARACON is an acclaimed software converter that boasts unprecedented conversion speed and a multi-channel file format. The program handles PCM files in every known sample rate up to 384 kHz. You can also use it as a word-length reducer, format converter, and POW-R ditherer. Use SARACON for converting single files, or use the smart batch modes to interleave several different mono input file sets into multichannel files. Or — for very large file batches — use the Super batch conversion feature to keep your workstation busy overnight or over the weekend. Running on both Windows and MacOS, the standard SARACON application works with PCM files exclusively whereas SARACON-DSD adds DSD support.

FORMATS

The output word-length can be set to 16, 20, 24, or 32 bits fixed point, or to 32 or 64 bits IEEE floating point. The word-length reduction uses flat TPDF dithering as well as any of the three POW-R dithering algorithms. SARACON supports a plethora of input and output formats. These include wav, AIFF, AU, BWF, SD2, CAF, PAF, MAT, RAW, DSF, DSDIFF, FLAC, and Ogg/Vorbis. The number of channels is unlimited with PCM to PCM conversion. The conversion algorithms employed are Weiss Engineering’s own — based on over four decades experience with digital audio format conversion.

FEATURES:

FILE FORMATS

• Support for all major audio formats including wav, aiff, au, caf, sd2, mat, raw
• Compressed formats: FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis
• RF64 and BWF support with meta data transfer
• All major PCM number formats supported: Fixed point (16, 24, and 32 bits), float, and double
• The SARACON-DSD adds support for dff and dsf

SAMPLING FREQUENCIES AND DITHER

• Sampling frequencies supported: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz, 352.8 kHz, 384 kHz, DXD, DSD64 (2.8224 MHz), DSD128 (5.6448 MHz)
• Dithering: TPDF, POW-R1, POW-R2 and POW-R3 dither algorithms

CONVERSION ALGORITHMS

• Choice of different modulators for DSD generation (low, medium and high order)
• Time reference transfer between BWF and DSD and vice versa
• Tag transfer for certain formats
• Heavily optimized for sse2 enabled processors with multiple cores
• Unlimited number of channels, files, and jobs
• Up-sampler characteristics selectable (different interpolators)
• Different modulators selectable, each with its own options like gain, dithering, etc.
• Flexible input to output channel routing
• Selectable interpolation/decimation filter sets for DSD conversion

QUALITY

• PCM to PCM and DSD to PCM conversions better than −180 dB THD+N
• PCM to DSD conversions −159.4 dB (CRFB10)

MONITORING

• Non volatile signal monitoring for PCM to DSD conversion
• Log file/window for documentation of conversion processes
• Extensive DSD Conversion analysis
• Non-volatile level/peak meter and history with full featured viewer