Sound Studio 4.5 Mac OSX

Sound Studio 4.5 Mac OSX | 11.02 MB

Sound Studio is an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing audio digitally on your computer. Digitize tapes and vinyl records, record live performances, create your own mixes with crossfades, tweak the levels and EQ, apply digital effects, and save in all major file formats with Sound Studio

Positioned perfectly between more expensive programs with steep learning curves, and far less robust apps, Sound Studio is for anyone who needs to record or edit audio. Some other possible applications include:

Lectures

Voice-notes

Sermons

Performances

and more

Detailed Features

Recording:

Multi-track support: layer stereo sounds and save in interleaved format

Audio Unit plug-in effect support

Saves in MPEG-4 AAC (advanced audio coding) m4a format

Saves in MP3 when the LAME framework is installed

Automator support (launch Automator to see the bundled actions)

Added New Mono Document command for quickly creating a monophonic document

24-bit / 96 kHz sample quality, in stereo or mono

Low latency monitoring, using Core Audio

Automatic recording starting and stopping based on timers or audio levels (a.k.a. VOX)

Editing:

Sample-accurate edits

Markers (a.k.a. Cue Points) with text labels

Time ruler with units for video and film

Copy-and-paste editing

Basic mixing edits

AppleScript and Automator support

Effects:

Supports Audio Units

Dynamics: Compressor, Expander, and Noise Gate

Equalization: Graphic EQ, Low Pass Filter, and High Pass Filter

Delay: Chorus, Flanger, Echo, and Reverb

Volume: Amplify, Fade In/Out/Special, and Normalize

Repair: Interpolate, Silence, DC Offset, and Swap Channels

Repair clicks and pops by interpolating samples or silencing them

Tone, FM, and noise generators

Pitch adjustment

Backwards/Reverse Audio

File Formats:

AIFF (.aif) and AIFF-C (.aifc) with compression including IMA 4:1

AAC and MP3 (importing only).

Sound Designer II

Wave (.wav, PCM only)

Tab-delimited text (export only)

Version 4 adds many new features:

64-bit app. (Also runs in 32-bit mode. Some plug-ins only available in 32-bit mode.)

New UI with everything you need in one window.

Output level meters.

Markers listed in the sidebar.

Simplified playback and recording transport.

Improved AudioUnit hosting.

Many bug fixes

Requires Intel CPU and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 or higher. (Recommended: Snow Leopard 10.6.)

Whats New

Version 4.5:

New features:

Adds Snap to Zero Crossings.

Adds Insert Markers in Gaps or at Gridlines.

AppleScript support for editing audio file metadata (artist, album, etc.)

UI refinements:

Improved visibility of marker, cue, and other lines in the UI.

Audio Units menu will be organized by folder if there are more than 30 plug-ins available.

Split By Markers automatically fills in the Number of Tracks field if it is left blank.

Updated timer recording, with a visible indicator that a timer has been set.

Adds Automatic levels-based recording with new, simplified UI.

Last Filter is remembered across different documents.

Lion features:

Full-screen support.

Retina display ready.

Multi-touch gestures: magnify (pinch and spread) trackpad gestures to control zoom.

Resume: support for restoring windows when quitting and re-opening the app.

Audio engine upgrades:

Audio processing updated to use newer APIs.

Uses AudioQueue for playback and recording.

Bug fixes:

Fixes a bug where saving in Apple Lossless would not save the metadata and markers.

Fixes some AudioUnit loading issues.

Fixes a bug with copy and paste.

Other improvements:

Presets can now be imported by opening the .soundstudiopreset file with the app.

Updated Preferences, with ability to set default sample rate and sample size settings.

Updated Ogg Vorbis libraries (1.3.0 and 1.3.2 respectively).

Removes in-app help. All help is now on the felttip.com web site.

In preparation for App Sandboxing, the Scratch Disk is no longer a preference.

Requirements

Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later 

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