Archive for August, 2007

Soundbooth AutoComposer Toolkit Available

I’m happy to say that we’ve posted the toolkit for creating Soundbooth Scores to the Adobe Developer Center today! The toolkit contains a small add-on for Soundbooth as well as a set of instructions for how to produce your own Soundbooth Scores (from how to structure the recording to how to break up the files for use in the toolkit). Note that the process is fairly involved, both from a musical and technical standpoint, and is intended for folks who already create sample libraries and such to be able to create Soundbooth Scores as well. But if you want to give it a shot yourself, or peak under the covers to see how they’re put together, the toolkit is posted on the Adobe Devnet now. There is no charge for downloading or using the toolkit.

For those of you who haven’t played with the AutoCompser yet, it allows non-musicians to load a fully composed piece of music (a Soundbooth Score) and then adjust how it sounds to match the mood and feel of your project. If you want to see more there’s a section of the product tour that shows how it works.

If you do go and produce a Soundbooth Score you’d like to share, let me know here at the blog or link to it over on our Adobe Soundbooth User-to-User forums.

Video Workshop

I just realized that I’ve been remiss in not linking to the excellent Video Workshop that we have posted online at the Adobe Design Center. The Video Workshop is a one-stop shop for all of the videos we have on all the CS3 applications (19 applications in all!) Soundbooth has its own section with a some great introductory how-to videos.

Building the Pod 100

I’m clearly lacking in timeliness, but Bruce Williams’ podcast series Building the Pod has hit a milestone with its 100th podcast. (Congrats Bruce…and now I see you’ve already moved on to episode 101). Anyway, what’s exciting is this is Bruce’s first venture into video podcasts, and he’s set up a great episode where he takes a promo and remixes it, explaining what he’s doing at every step. If you’ve ever wanted to just watch someone work to learn their tricks of the trade, this is a great place to watch.