While Sonic Studio continues to offer mastering solutions, Nexstage is considered a legacy tool, with modern SACD creation often handled by newer or alternative mastering software solutions.
Nexstage provided tools for editing, managing metadata, and ensuring SACD specification compliance for PCM to DSD conversion or native DSD mastering. Sonic Studio Nexstage Sacd Creator
: Performs lossless Direct Stream Transfer (DST) encoding to compress DSD data, allowing more audio (up to 80 minutes of multichannel sound) to fit on a single disc. While Sonic Studio continues to offer mastering solutions,