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"Josh Greenman and his team at Mercury Development do outstanding work! Mercury Development provided me with a low cost solution with a very quick turn around time for complicated, and somewhat obscure, application development request."

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Audio Plugins Desktop

  • Pro Tools and VST
  • AS, RTAS, HTDM, TDM
  • Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo
  • Windows and Mac OS X
  • Average cost: 5K - 50K


Audio Plugin Custom Development

You are an audio professional. Whether your weapon of choice is Digidesign Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo, Adobe Audition or other professional audio software, you rely on creativity, time-honed skills and said weapon to craft your work-product. These tools have come a long way, but they are not perfect. The authors of these tools are human beings employed by large corporations. Your weapon of choice lacks some functionality that only a professional of your skill and experience is able to identify. This omission, if fixed, would dramatically increase your productivity and/or the quality of your work. You have a feeling you are not the only one who would value this... we can help.
Mercury Development: DigiDesign Development Partner Mercury Development: National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Member
Mercury Development is a Digidesign Development Partner and a leading developer of sophisticated plug-ins for professional audio software. We can make your vision a reality that you can sell to other professionals or keep for yourself.

Experience. We have experience developing plug-ins for Digidesign Pro Tools and VST, including
  • Highly optimized real-time audio processing routines;
  • Highly-efficient integration with Digidesign Pro Tools and VST hosts audio processing engines; and
  • Implementing highly sophisticated custom GUI.
Knowledge. Our engineers hold advanced degrees in Computer Science with research in real-time digital signal processing and data encoding/compression techniques. We have extensive knowledge of audio data formats, audio signal analysis and synthesis techniques and MP3 and MPEG4 audio and voice compression algorithms. Our developers are experienced in developing reliable, optimized, highly-productive audio data transfer protocols.

Ideas. Chances are you already know what you need developed. Here are some general examples of the type of projects we've done to get those juices flowing:
  • Design and implementation of highly optimized audio analysis and synthesis algorithms.
  • Development of highly optimized real-time (RTAS) Digidesign Pro Tools plug-ins.
  • Development of highly optimized real-time VST plug-ins.
  • Development of Pro Tools and VST plugins.
  • Design and implementation of the stand-alone applications that work in conjunction with the Pro Tools and VST hosts.
  • Integration with 3rd party SDKs: ReWire SDK, AAF SDK.
  • ReWire-based synchronized data exchange.
  • Processing Pro Tools sessions (exported to AAF format), taking into consideration the Pro Tools session specific features.
Cross-platform development: Windows + Mac OS X Cross-platform Focus. Our cross-platform expertise allows us to deliver reliable multi-platform audio applications and plugins under very tight schedules. Mercury is one of an elite few companies to hold the highest level of partner program status with both Microsoft (Gold Certified Partner) and Apple (Apple Premier ADC partner).

A recent example: since the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), a lot of Digidesign Pro Tools developers have encountered difficulties with RTAS performance with their plug-ins under Leopard. Apple made significant changes to their thread-scheduling model in 10.5 and the developers who did not follow the multi-threaded programming practices tailored specifically for Pro Tools architecture were left with poorly performing plug-ins. Unfortunately, multi-threading design mistakes are impossible to address quickly, and a major rewrite of the code is usually required. Mercury is proud to announce that none of its customers had performance issues after migrating to Leopard.

Success Story

For Quiet Art, Mercury developed a unique Pro Tools plug-in for automatic audio level control, WaveRider. Based on characteristics of the input audio, WaveRider automatically attenuates loud passages or amplifies low signals, bringing the audio track to production quality.

To make the results as realistic as possible, WaveRider imitates a musical editor's real-time physical movements of the fader on the control board instead of automatically adjusting the output signal gain. WaveRider physically moves the volume fader of the Pro Tools tracks, just as a professional musical editor would do.

Complex, state-of-art algorithms for input signal analysis and automatic output level control, industry-standard protocols for communications between the plug-in and Pro Tools DAW, and support for key-chaining and direct processing make WaveRider a smart and easy-to-use tool allowing audio editors to take a little break.


Please contact us with your audio plugin details to receive a free quote or to inquire about references.


Technical Expertise Summary

Avid Digidesign Pro Tools
Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools HD, AS, RTAS, HDTM, TDM plug-ins, Pro Tools SDK, Processing Pro Tools sessions (AAF file format).

VST
Steinberg Cubase, Steinberg Nuendo, Adobe Audition, VST plig-in SDK, compatibility with different VST hosts.
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06/17/2011
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06/02/2011
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04/27/2011
U. of Virginia and Mercury to develop an Android app.

04/25/2011
Magic Penny Reading iPad App to be released at the AppStore on May 18th!

04/11/2011
Mercury and Golf Match LLC to develop an iPhone app.

04/07/2011
Delivered OS X driver for POS to Logic Controls.

03/27/2011
K2 3D Ring Puzzle has been released in the App Store!

02/15/2011
Mercury to port Neuxpower software to Mac OS X.

02/11/2011
Finished WellEz Mobile App! Watch here.

02/07/2011
Beta of Comodo Antivirus for Mac we developed is now available! (YouTube).

01/12/2011
Wobble Android app is now available at Android Market!


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