Crane Song

Falcon is a classic sounding tube compressor in a 500 series package, with 3 attack and 3 release time settings, hard/soft knee compression or limiting, two selectable audio path sounds, wet-dry mixing for parallel compression, and linking (including 5.1 configurations).

The STC-8 is a high quality compressor that delivers consistent gain control without sacrificing musical definition or harmonic richness. It utilizes a remarkably dependable peak limiter that provides overload protection critical to digital recording and broadcast transmitters.

A rack-mount stereo hardware compressor and limiter with plug-in control over Ethernet, shown here as an early first look while the companion software is still being developed.

Trakker is a high quality single-channel discrete Class A compressor-limiter that functions either as a musically transparent compressor or as a vintage compressor-limiter with selectable hard or soft knee. It offers four distinct amplifier/gain control sounds and can be linked with up to eight units for surround mixing.

Interstellar is a stereo A/D converter built around Crane Song's Quantum sub-picosecond clocking technology, with onboard DSP emulation for triode and pentode tubes, tape saturation, switchable 16/24-bit dithering, and word clock outputs that let it serve as a system master clock. It also functions as a bidirectional USB audio interface, with AES, S/PDIF, and optical digital outputs active simultaneously with the USB connection.

The Solaris Quantum is Crane Song's 5th-generation Quantum DAC design, a two-channel D/A converter accepting AES, S/PDIF, optical, and USB digital sources at sample rates up to 192kHz. It offers a stepped-attenuator main output, a fixed-level balanced secondary output, and a dedicated headphone amplifier.

Ibis is a four-band discrete Class-A analog equalizer whose switch-selectable frequencies are labeled by musical note name as well as frequency, translating between musician-speak and engineer-jargon. Each overlapping band spans 32-Hz "C" to 22.35-kHz "F" with adjustable bandwidth and an adjustable "color" harmonic-distortion function.

Insigna is a coloring/shaping tube equalizer in a 500 series package, with 3 EQ bands plus high and low cut filters, built around a dual triode 12AX7 tube circuit for a fat, second-harmonic-rich tone.

A two-channel discrete class A microphone preamp that can operate as a musically transparent preamp or emulate vintage and distinctive new sounds via switchable IRON, SOUND, and TONE circuits.

Syren is a classic-sounding tube preamp in a 500 series package, built around a dual triode circuit with a 12AX7 tube. It offers a dual gain stage with overdrive capability and a switchable negative-feedback path that shifts the tone between an accurate, wide-frequency-response sound and a more open, warmer character.

Phoenix II is an update of Crane Song's suite of TDM plug-ins designed to emulate the unique properties of a magnetic tape machine, running both native and DSP on Avid's AAX format with beta AU and VST3 support. It uses 32-bit floating point math and offers five distinct tape-analog flavors (Luminescent, Iridescent, Radiant, Dark Essence, Luster) derived from HEDD technology.

Discontinued

Phoenix is a TDM plug-in suite for Pro Tools HD that adds analog color to the digital domain by increasing apparent loudness without increasing gain, modeling analog tape compression. The suite contains five separate plug-ins (Luminescent, Iridescent, Radiant, Dark Essence, and Luster), each emulating different tape characteristics.

Spider is a high quality eight channel mic-preamplifier mixer with two types of digital outputs: stereo and eight channel. The eight channel output allows the system to function as an analog front end for DAWs, digital mixers, and modular digital recorders.

Avocet IIA is a stereo monitor controller with three digital inputs, three analog inputs, and a built-in headphone system, designed to solve problems of accurate monitoring and volume control for workstation users, studios, and mastering rooms.

HEDD Quantum is Crane Song's AD/DA converter and master clock unit, using the same sub-picosecond jitter clocking as the Avocet IIA DAC on both its AD and DA stages, with added toslink optical I/O, six new word clock outputs, and Crane Song's tube and tape DSP emulation.

Egret is a highly flexible digital audio workstation back end with eight channels of high-quality D/A converters and a stereo line-level mixer with adjustable harmonic color. It lets users bring analog-summed digital mixes to life, with balanced inserts on each channel, an aux effects send/return, and AES/ADAT/S-MUX digital I/O up to 192kHz.

Peacock is a vinyl-emulation plug-in that can be used on a stereo bus to recreate the classic vinyl sound, or on individual tracks to add large, fat harmonic character and a smooth vintage quality to vocals and other instruments.