Inside Sound

There have been some audio enhancements added to the new Flash Player, which is now available in beta on Adobe Labs:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

The new feature that was added for Flash Player 10 (aka Astro) is called “Dynamic Sound Generation.” Dynamic Sound Generation is an extension to the Sound class that plays back dynamically created audio content through the use of an event listener on the Sound object. This enables audio data generated by Actionscript to be passed to the sound card.

Tinic Uro, one of the engineers on the Flash Player team, has posted details on this new function on his blog linked below. Part 1 is some background info on audio support in the Flash Player, part 2 documents the new API and part 3 documents an additional Sound object method.
http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/adobe-is-making-some-noise-part-1.html
http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/adobe-is-making-some-noise-part-2.html
http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/adobe-is-making-some-noise-part-3.html

And to our friends at the Adobe Make Some Noise Campaign, we heard you. ☺

Lawson

Posted by Lawson Hancock at 03:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

In the latest round of press reviews, Computer Music (UK) gave Audition 3 awards for performance and innovation in their June issue. Here’s a quote from the review:

“Theres a heck of a lot to Audition 3, and as a sample editor in particular, it’s most impressive and comprehensive, with some unique features. As a multitrack audio application, it’s good too, but not as slick and feature-rich as the established DAWs. Then again, those apps can’t hold a candle to Audition when it comes to sample editing.”
-Computer Music (UK)

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Today is the 5-year anniversary of Adobe acquiring Syntrillium, which was the company that created Cool Edit and Cool Edit Pro. After the acquisition, Cool Edit Pro 2.1 became Adobe Audition 1.0. Since that time the Adobe audio team, established by the Syntrillium folks that joined Adobe, has produced 3 major updates to Audition - 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0. This same team also created the latest entry in the Adobe audio product family, Soundooth, which shipped as a part of Creative Suite 3 last year.

And so the story continues…

Lawson

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Over the weekend there were reports on our support forums from users having problems launching Audition 3 running the latest release of Windows Vista SP1. This problem was also reported yesterday in InformationWeek. Since these reports surfaced our engineering team has been working to determine what is causing it. So far we have only been able to re-create the problem once on a 64-bit version of Vista SP1. We have not been able to reproduce the issue on a 32-bit version of SP1. If any of you out there have experienced problems launching Audition 3 on Vista SP1 please leave a comment here with details of your system configuration.

The report in InformationWeek gave the impression that anyone trying to run Audition 3 on Vista SP1 would run into this issue. It appears from our tests to date that this is an isolated issue that is happening to a minority of users. As with any major operating system update, our engineering team did extensive testing prior to the launch of Vista SP1 to ensure Audition was compatible with this update. At this point it’s too soon to know what is causing the issue being reported, but rest assured we are working on it and will post an update once we know more.

Lawson

UPDATE: We have posted a workaround on our support forum here:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b509c9/21

However, you will still experience the issue if you have a trial version of Audition running on Vista SP1 64-bit. We are working with Microsoft to come up with a resolution and will continue to post updates here and on our support forum.

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Audition 3 is on the cover of the April issue of Keyboard Magazine with the tagline “The Different DAW.” It’s a nice tagline that fits well with Craig Anderton’s review inside in which Audition 3 received Keyboard Magazine’s KeyBuy Award. My favorite quote from the review is below:

"You probably have scissors, a knife, nail file, and corkscrew sitting around…yet you still have a Swiss Army knife because it puts all those things in one convenient place. Audition is like that. It’s a surprisingly versatile piece of software with a toolkit that’s unlike anything else.”
- Craig Anderton, Keyboard Magazine

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