AP2000 Audio Processor by Vorsis

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The AP2000 is the successor to the Vorsis AP1000 31-band audio processor. Essentially a complete redesign of the original product, the AP2000 hardware is equipped with 30% more DSP horsepower, a completely overhauled five band AGC, new voice distortion management technologies and a new, high-performance distortion managed clipper. The five band AGC now incorporates Sweet Spot Technology (SST), a Vorsis exclusive, which manages the behavior of the five band AGC in real time to ensure that it always operates within its ‘Sweet Spot’. Unlike broadband AGC algorithms of the past, SST is a completely new way to manage the five band dynamics controller to maximize the consistency of the station’s on-air presentation, no matter what the source material or audio levels from source to program source. The newly designed five band AGC also incorporates adjustable inter-band coupling to ensure a consistently set spectral balance regardless of program content.

Dimensions: Height - 5.25", Width - 17.4", Length - 13.713"

- Thirty-one band Fine Grain Processor™
- Preprocessing via Five band or Three band AGC
- Exclusive Vorsis Multiband Dynamics Controller with Sweet Spot Technology (SST)
- Exclusive VBMS™ (Vorsis Bass Management System)
- FM peak control via oversampled lookahead limiter or specialized clipper
- Highly oversampled distortion masked clipper
- VoiceMaster voice distortion management
- Precision 8x oversampled HD output limiter
- Four band full parametric EQ sections
- Variable high pass filter and voice phase rotator
- Ethernet-based remote control with front/rear panel jacks
- Eight input GPI preset triggers
- AES3 digital input accepts 32kHz - 96kHz
- AES3 digital output automatically synchronizes to AES3 digital input
- HD latency FM delay of up to ten seconds
- Precision FM stereo MPX generator with multiplex mask filters to protect SCA and stereo pilot
- Front panel control via high-resolution LCD display, Track Pad, and Navigation buttons

State of the Art Production

Vorsis audio processors are members of the ever-expanding Wheatstone product line and are built to the same exacting standards as all Wheatstone products. Every facet of product research and development, manufacturing, testing, and quality control is done in Wheatstone's large state of the art facility in New Bern, North Carolina to ensure that customers receive superior performing products of the highest possible quality.

State of the Art DSP Algorithms

Vorsis processors rely on proprietary DSP algorithms to create uncommonly clean and natural sound along with competitive "on-the-dial" loudness. Each Vorsis product comes equipped with its own Windows software based Graphical User Interface for intuitive operation. Carefully tuned factory presets ensure that the processors can be placed into use quickly and easily and in any size market with a minimum of effort.

Vorsis Bass Management System^™

Given our understanding of advanced signal processing and the shortcomings of “bass clippers” in other audio processors, it was clear that a completely different approach for handling bass in an on-air audio processor was both required and warranted. Our design team was intent on tackling the bass processing from a new perspective and the result of our work is the new Vorsis Bass Management System^™(VBMS) algorithm. In simplistic terms it is a set of high-performance DSP algorithms designed to overcome the shortcomings of previous bass amplitude control topologies while also outperforming them.

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Specs:

AP2000 Digital Audio Processor

Application Notes:

AN2007-01A Resolving Network Connectivity Issues-Updated! (pdf)

AN2007-02 Vorsis Bass Management System VBMS (pdf)

AN2007-04 How to Unlock the AP1000 GUI If Password Is Lost (pdf)

AN2008-01 Sweet Spot Technology SST (pdf)

AN2008-03A Vorsis Stereo Enhancement (pdf)

AN2008-05 The Magic Behind the Vorsis 31 Band Algorithm (pdf)

AN2008-06 Introduction to the VoiceMaster (pdf)

White Papers:

VBMS-Vorsis Bass Management System White Paper (pdf)

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AP2000

The AP2000 is the successor to the Vorsis AP1000 31-band audio processor. Essentially a complete redesign of the original product, the AP2000 hardware is equipped with 30% more DSP horsepower, a completely overhauled five band AGC, new voice distortion management technologies and a new, high-performance distortion managed clipper.

FM2000

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