•NoNoise:
first Noise Reduction System (1987)
•The
Sonic System: first CD Production System (1989)
•MediaNet:
first network designed for guaranteed media (1994)
•Sonic
Studio HD: first full 24 bit 96 / 192 kHz workstation (1997)
•DSD.1:
first DSD Production System (1999)
•Amarra:
first high resolution consumer player (2008)
There
is a strange resemblance of these products with SonicStage Mastering
Studio. I guess the ‘SonicStage’ name brand was taken partly from
Sonic Solutions’ SonicStudio; particularly the SSMS’s Stage
Mastering seems to be an addition. For the fiscal year ended in March
1993 Sonic Solutions had revenues of $9.43 million and a profit of
$1.21 million. In the fall of that year the company announced it
would begin integrating Sony's higher-definition Super Bit Mapping CD
audio technology into its products. The firm's equipment was being
used by most major record companies, studios such as London's famed
Abbey Road, and organizations such as the British Broadcasting
Corporation. Sonic Solutions also cooperated with Sony with
introducing ATRAC3 into their equipment in 2000. Not only was the 24
bit 96kHz recording of SSMS made possible by Sonic Solutions’
innovation, but it was in 1996 that the SonicStudio High-Density
workstation was released, and Sony partnered with Sonic Solutions to
use DSD in the system. SBM, 24 bit 192kHz, and the DSD (which
requires SoundReality chip of Sony VAIOs) were all based on history
of Sony Corp and Sonic Solutions. It was a long partnership. And it
continued for a long time. Sonic and Sony’s relatively unknown
relation. Sonic Studio’s homepage also has a honeycomb design
(2016) and this is reflected in SonicStage.