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RipX is audio stem separation and pitch modification software from UK based software company Hit'n'Mix Ltd. It's primarily aimed at separating musical instruments in an audio recording into different channels for editing, and over the years it's added more complex tools to aid with that task. The current incarnation of the software is called RipX DAW.

Company

Hit'n'Mix was founded in 2009. It was set up to develop software for source separation and audio editing. It's a subsidiary of Neuratron Group Ltd,[1] which has been developing professional music recognition software and other analysis tools since 1993[2]. The owner and main developer is Martin Dawe.

Dawe's first foray into music recognition was PhotoScore, Optical Music Recognition software that converted images of sheet music into playable music notation, that came out in 1996. Parts of PhotoScore were included with notation software Sibelius[3]. Later, ambitions of doing the same for music recordings - turning recorded notes into midi, brought forth software titles AudioTune (2004) and two years later Audio Score.

The first software offering for the Hit'n'Mix, the eponymous Hit'n'Mix, came to market in 2011, after the developer had spent 10 years creating developing the system.[4] Hit'n'Mix contained the Rip Audio format that RipX still uses.

RipX

RipX was initially released as Infinity, around 2019.[5] A continuation of the earlier Hit'n'Mix software, it bore some resemblance to the popular Celemony pitch editing software, particularly DNA Direct Note Access feature that allows users to edit notes from different instruments within an audio recording. Its ability to isolate instruments set it apart from the start, but it came more into its own with the first major update, in 2021, when it was renamed RipX.[6] The first version had relied on algorithmic processing, sinusoidal spectral analysis and resynthesis,[5] but the update added machine learning, and came with drastically improved stem separation capabilities.

As RipX grew it added upgrade modules. The affordable base version, DeepRemix[7], had stem separation, note editing, pitch/tempo editing and audio editing features like volume, EQ and panning for each instrument. The more expensive DeepAudio added more in-depth sound, pitch and harmony editing features, with product names such as Audioshop, Unpitched Editor, Clone, Draw Audio and others. It also added the RipScripts scripting feature, which was touted as the growth feature. Later the third module, Ripx DeepCreate added some Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)-like features, instrument replacement, audio recording and VST instrument hosting. DeepCreate added a new price point, placed between the affordable DeepRemix and the costlier DeepAudio.

RipX DAW

In November 2023, the software was relaunched as RipX DAW. At the same time, it switched back to two price tiers.

The upgrade centered on changes making the software into a fully fledged DAW. it added some audio effects, recording and playback improvements, "Integrated AI Music Generator access", various UI changes and improvements and improvements that they described would affect both sound quality and speed.[8]

  1. ^ "Company Info". RipX DAW - The AI DAW. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  2. ^ "About Neuratron". www.neuratron.com. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  3. ^ "PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite - Avid". www.avid.com. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  4. ^ "New utility that breaks music down into its components". BBC News. 2011-02-20. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  5. ^ a b "Hit'n'Mix Infinity". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  6. ^ "Hit'n'Mix release major update to Infinity". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  7. ^ "NEW RipX: DeepRemix". Recording Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  8. ^ Mullenpublished, Matt (2023-11-08). "Hit'n'Mix says the new version of its RipX software is the world's "first AI DAW"". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
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