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Sound Studio
Record, edit, and produce your audio with Sound Studio, an easy-to-use Mac app for recording and editing digital audio 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!
The Mac’s most popular audio program for many years, Sound Studio continues to be regularly updated to add new features and to take advantage of the very latest Apple technologies.
With Sound Studio you can record professional sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog. Spoken word, speeches, presentations, music, and other audio can all be recorded and edited with the same high fidelity.
You can save in the following standard file formats:
• AIFF
• AIFF-C
• WAVE
• MPEG-4 AAC
• ADTS AAC
• Ogg Vorbis
• tab-delimited text
• NeXT/Sun
• FLAC
• CAF
• Apple Lossless
You can apply the following effects and filters:
• Amplify/Volume
• Fade In, Fade Out, and Fade Special (with an envelope)
• Normalize
• Dynamics Compressor
• Dynamics Expander
• Noise Gate Expander
• Add Noise (or cowbell)
• DC Offset
• Interpolate
• Invert Signal Polarity
• Swap Left and Right Channels
• Backwards/Reverse Audio
• Chorus
• Delay and Echo
• Flanger
• Pitch and Tempo
• Reverb
• 3-band, 10-band, and chart-based Graphic EQ
• High Pass
• Low Pass
Tech Specs
+ Audio recording and playback on 2 channels and multiple tracks.
+ Number of tracks limited only by processor and memory constraints.
+ AudioUnit plug-in hosting.
+ Uses 32-bit floating point PCM format internally.
+ Markers: automatically generate markers in silent gaps or in a grid.
+ Split by Markers: lets you split a long file into separate tracks.
+ Has FM synthesis, sine, triangle, square wave, and noise generators.
+ Snap to Zero Crossings.
+ Preserves BWF (Broadcast Wave Format) data in .WAV files.
+ Zoom in as close as sample level.
+ AppleScript and Automator support.
+ 64-bit Intel / 32-bit Intel app binary.
+ (32-bit plug-ins only work when app is in 32-bit mode.)
Made in NYC.
What's new
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.
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- Last changed:
- 3 days ago
- Category:
- Music
- Developer:
- Felt Tip Inc.
- Version:
- 4.5
- Average Rating:
- 4.50 (28)
- Size:
- 7.8 MB
