Cedar Audio and Merging Technologies have entered into a non-exclusive licence agreement that enables Merging to use IPR contained within Cedar’s US Patent No. 7,978,862 Method and Apparatus for Audio Signal Processing (The Retouch patent).

The patent refers to a method of displaying and editing audio content in a spectrogram, which can provide audio engineers with a means to find problems such as noise and other artefacts in recordings and remove them without affecting the wanted audio.

‘Like Cedar Audio, Merging Technologies has a proud legacy of innovation and technology,’ says Gordon Reid, MD of Cedar Audio. ‘We have been working with them since the mid-1990s when we began developing the first Cedar for Pyramix processes, and this agreement paves the way toward some exciting future collaborations between the companies.’

‘Our customers expect to be able to use the leading audio restoration tools, and a new suite of 64-bit Cedar for Pyramix will take advantage of the increased processing power and the latest developments from Cedar,’ says Claude Cellier, President of Merging Technologies.

‘We are aware that Pyramix users have been clamouring for 64-bit audio restoration processes and, while we could have updated the existing software, we all agreed that this would be an excellent opportunity to replace the original Cedar for Pyramix with the latest algorithms and user-interfaces so that Pyramix can again boast state-of-the-art restoration facilities,’ Reid adds.

Cedar for Pyramix 2 will be available in 2015.