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Peter Kirn over at createdigitalmusic.com has posted his summary and comments on Soundbooth Beta 2. One of Peter's comments is:
"Here’s my impassioned plea to Adobe: please allow us to get Soundbooth unbundled from CS..."I've heard this from a couple other folks, and I can confirm that we plan on making Soundbooth available as a standalone product as well as part of the suite.
I'm pleased to announce that the second preview version of Soundbooth is now live on the Adobe Labs site! This beta has a bunch of new features, and almost every feature that was included in Beta 1 has been enhanced in some way (some obviously so and some behind the scenes).
I'd like to take a moment and thank all those who have sent in their suggestions, constructive criticisms, workflow explanations, and all the other impassioned feedback we've received over the last couple of months. This is the first time I've been part of a public beta like this, and a few months ago the idea made me more than a bit nervous, but it's been extremely gratifying to have the team able to engage with the community like this. We've been able to respond to many of the requests and comments, and have filed away a bunch more for the future. Beta 2 just wouldn't have been nearly as good without you.
So, what's new? The list I have from the team is over fifty features long, but here are some of the highlights:
As a reminder, the beta does not include all of the file formats that will be included in the final release version, including MP3, FLV, and H.264, or Bridge, which can be previewed in the current Photoshop CS3 public beta.
I hope you all try out this latest beta and continue to give us your feedback. Enjoy!
You can download the latest beta here. Both Mac and Windows builds are available.
Learn more about the Soundbooth beta.
Download the Soundbooth Getting Started Guide.
Join the discussion in the Labs forums.
A colleague here at Adobe let me know about a podcast some of you might be interested in over at HanselMinutes.com. Normally HanselMinutes is weekly podcast devoted to technology and development (read: programming code), but this week they did a special episode titled Pro Audio Basics. Its really focused on how they make a great sounding podcast, but goes through a lot of the things they do to get a good sound, from making sure the room is quiet, to using balanced cables to keep noise out, to using editing software to edit and prep the final delivery. It sounds like a great summary for folks looking for some tips on making their podcasts or other at-home recordings sound better.
I just received a tip about a free Audition plug-in that adds AAC import and export support! I haven't tried it myself, but the tipster let me know that it seemed to work well for him. It's up on rarewares.org. Just scroll down to the AAC Encoders section.
As always, let us know about cool uses, plugins, or anything else interesting about Audition at coolaud(At)adobe(dot)com.
In a comment on an older post, a reader mentioned that he couldn’t find the Total Training tutorials online after purchasing the download version of Audition. After some research, it turned out that they had been moved when the Adobe Design Studio web site was reorganized a while back but the links were not updated to go directly to them. That meant they were effectively buried among all the other tutorials.
Anyway, if you have the downloaded version of Audition and have been looking for the Total Training videos you can find them at the Design Center right here.