Weiss

Weiss is a Swiss company devoted to the highest quality standards. The products of Daniel Weiss is found in the best recording studios and mastering facilities around the world. In addition to the hardware, Weiss offers an application which is the Swiss Army Knife for uncompromised sound format, sample rate and bit depth conversion: Saracon.

"Now that I've used it for everything I do, it is the only resampler I can listen to..." George Massenburg

Saracon Sampling Rate Conversion Software

Saracon is a multichannel file format and sampling rate conversion tool of best sonic quality and conversion speed. All standard sampling rates between 44.1kHz and 384kHz are supported, including DXD and DSD as well. POW-R dithering is included as standard. Saracon works as a batch processor working on source and destination files, supporting both Mac and Windows.

Saracon comes in two variants: SARACON and SARACON-DSD. The latter adds the DSD conversion feature.

Features:
- Sampling Rates (input/output): 44.1k, 48k, 88.2k, 96k, 176.4k, 192k, 352.8k, 384k, DXD, DSD
- Wordlengths (input/output): 16/20/24/32 bit fixed point, 32/64 IEEE float, DSD
- File Formats (input/output): Microsoft-Wave (*.wav), Sonic Foundry w64 (*.wav), Audio Interchange File Format (*.aiff), Sun Audio (*.au), Broadcast-Wave (BWF), Sound Designer II (sd2), Apple Core Audio Files (caf), Ensoniq PARIS audio file format (paf), Matlab 4 and 5 files (mat), Header-less raw audio files (*.raw), dsdiff
- Wordlength Reduction Methods: Flat TPDF dither, POW-r 1, POW-r 2,POW-r 3
- THD+N PCM to PCM: better than –180dB for 32 Bit fixed point I/O, unweighted
- THD+N PCM to DSD: better than –147dB for 32 Bit fixed point Input, unweighted
- Number of channels: PCM to PCM: unlimited, DSD to PCM: unlimited, PCM to DSD: up to six
- Weiss quality conversion algorithms
- Ergonomic user interface
- Built in sine-generator for testing purposes

DSD specific:
- Extensive DSD Conversion analysis
- Log files
- Selectable interpolation / decimation filter sets for DSD conversion
- Flexible input to output channel routing
- Different modulators selectable, each with its own options like gain, dithering etc.
- Upsampler characteristics selectable (different interpolators)
- Log window shows time tagged events (e.g. overs)
- Non-volatile level / peak meter / history with full featured viewer

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