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.)
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