Quality-First Audio Automation
AudioTools Server is a collection of enterprise-ready audio solutions designed to add file-based expertise to automated environments. The AudioTools Server family represents decades of expertise encapsulated in flexible, focused packages of audio specialization.
AudioTools Server automates the most sophisticated audio tasks and offers a wide variety of processing, specifically created for use in cable, satellite, OTT, terrestrial, IPTV, radio, and post-production facilities. As a pure software platform running on commodity hardware, including VM or cloud deployment, AudioTools Server is flexible and customizable, allowing for new workflows as requirements inevitably change.
- State-of-the-art audio processing
- Next Generation Audio support (ATMOS and MPEG-H)
- Customized, efficient file-based workflows
- Unrivaled loudness tools
- Compliance with broadcast standards
- Interoperability with major environments
- Modular, scalable platform
Leader in Loudness
Loudness Control is a significant use case for AudioTools Server, using Linear Acoustic® APTO® loudness processing. These loudness-normalization processes fully preserve the existing audio and only apply a gain change combined with optional peak limiting. Other use cases require changing the dynamic range and more complex parameters of the audio content, such as dialog intelligibility. Advanced Loudness Adaptation is a collection of intelligent loudness profiles designed to adapt a theatrical audio mix for broadcast to create the best possible audio experience for all modern platforms, such as OTT/web, mobile/ handheld, and VOD/SVOD.
Modular Design
Modular architecture allows AudioTools Server to always be state-of-the-art, but the real power of this approach is using workflows to combine module functions in a sequential or highly conditional profile. AudioTools Server provides a modern REST API to connect the system to any industry-standard Workflow Automation or Media Asset Management system. AudioTools Server is also a VST plug-in host, enabling third-party plug-ins as part of an overall AudioTools Server workflow.
File-Based Workflow and Next Generation Audio Support
With the requirements for broadcasters’ talent and editorial staff getting more and more difficult, automating as many file-based audio processes as possible makes good business sense. Broadcasters will need to support Dolby Atmos® and MPEG-H content—as well as your existing deliverables requirements—but tools that can do it all are scarce. AudioTools Server meets broadcasters’ existing needs to automate workflows for file-based loudness management, encoding/decoding, QC, and more, as well as easily adding Next Generation Audio support to those workflows.
AudioTools FOCUS
AudioTools FOCUS for Loudness Control is an easy-to-use, standalone Windows application that takes the complexity out of the audio equation. Proven AudioTools presets conforming to every loudness standard are built in and ready to use or modify. With all the standards, file formats, and deliverables needed today, loudness management adds one more layer of intricacy to an already complex ecosystem. In a video–centric world, this program will focus on handling the complexity and dependencies of automating loudness control… AudioTools FOCUS brings audio control into focus.
Benefits of AudioTools Server
Master your Dolby tasks with AudioTools Server. Upmix audio to up to 9.1.6 channel configuration, and automate Dolby Atmos® encoding or MPEG-H pre-processing tasks. Automate Dolby encoding and decoding, including metadata handling. AudioTools Server includes Dolby E quality control, with optional correction.
No matter where your deliverables are going, AudioTools Server has you covered. It features state-of-the-art loudness control based around international standards and practices. Advanced Loudness Adaptation profiles are also included to improve and ensure compliant dialog intelligibility in high-dynamic-range content.
Simply output workflows with automated adaptation of audio content to specific output specifications, including upmix, downmix, channel management, and frame-rate conversion. Take control of your deliverables via audio-specific quality control of audio files or container formats, including channel assignment detection and correlation check.
Trust The Professionals
At Dale Pro Audio, we know broadcast - and virtualization of it - like no other. And, we've been on top of every development regarding NextGen TV. As your facility or network prepares for this new chapter in broadcasting, turn to the expertise that's helped drive client success for nearly 70 years.
