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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
With Sound Studio you can record professional sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog. Check out the article on Suggested Recording Hardware to find out more about how to mic properly and other useful audio information.
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 3.5.6:
- Fixed bug with double Help menu.
- Unicode marker name support in AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, and Sound Designer 2 formats.
- Updated Japanese localization resources.
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| Sound Studio User Reviews (108 posts) | Write A Review | |
 | May 1 2008 |
CHAS_M Having just gotten this thanks to the MU promo bundle (thanks, guys!) I'm looking forward to testing it versus my beloved Amadeus Pro. Still -- I've been using Fission a lot lately for "quick" editing because of it's "no further loss" nature, and wondering why AP nor SS offer this amazing ability. For jobs where you are just "cutting and/or pasting" audio, you should be able to save losslessly like Fission offers. (Version 3.5.6) |
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| Apr 22 2008 |
CHICAGOLARRY I've used Amadeus for years and have nothing but high praise for its capabilities and for the attentive guy who has steadily developed it over time. So I agree with the others who have commented about Amadeus. Why pay more for this app, when the other is, according to reviews, better? (Version 3.5.5) |
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| Jul 13 2007 |
CARL321 Ive used Sound Studio for 3 years, this version looks great..love the new polished look, however, it seems to crash more often... hope this problem is soon solved. thanks (Version 3.5.3) |
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| May 19 2007 |
JOESHMOE200US I tried Audacity, but it was too buggy, and kept on crashing and working slowly. Sound Studio works great, and I really like that you can zoom in/out with one click of the keyboard. It makes editing out "ah's and umh's" in podcasts very simple. Well worth the money. The only feature I wish it has was a "denoising" function like that found in Amadeaus. Amadeaus, isn't as easy to use (zooming in and out requires a two/three button press, annoying for frequent editign), so what I do it denoise in Amadeaus, and then import into Sound Studio for all other editing. (Version 3.5.1) |
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