Inside Sound

A beta of the next version of Soundbooth is available on Adobe Labs.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundboothcs4/

Over the coming days and weeks we will be blogging here about the new features in this release. Our top feature request since the release of Soundbooth CS3 last summer has been multitrack support and I’m pleased to announce that we have included this in the new release. Now you can mix together multiple audio clips on any number of tracks giving you a new level of creative possibilities for the audio experiences in your audio/video and interactive projects.

Anyone can download and run the beta for up to 2 days. After that you can use any CS3 serial number to activate it. You can also checkout the review in MacWorld. http://www.macworld.com/article/133606/2008/05/soundboothcs4beta.html

“Tuesday’s release of the Soundbooth CS4 beta demonstrates that Adobe has its ears open to the needs of those who demand more from an audio editor.”
-Chris Breen, MacWorld

So please give the Soundbooth beta a spin and let us know what you think. We’re anxious to get your feedback here and on the beta forums.

Lawson

Posted by Lawson Hancock at 01:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We’ve added additional Soundbooth Scores for purchase that you can access via Resource Central. There are now a total of 9 genre specific Score packs that each contain 5 Soundbooth Scores. Soundbooth Scores are royalty-free music that can be customized to fit with your video or interactive project. You can stretch or shrink them to fit a specific length as well as customize the volume level, intensity and instrumentation. We included 30 for free in CS3 with these additional ones available for purchase on-line.

If you have have Soundbooth CS3 you can get to Resource Central under the ‘Windows’ menu (note: it requires an internet connection). Once the Resource Central panel comes up just click on the “Soundbooth Scores” tab and you will see a list of Scores in the following genres: atmospheric, blues and country, easy listening, electronic, funk/rock/blues, seasonal, urban and world. They can be purchased for $69 (US) each and used as many times as you want. You can also preview each of them before you purchase. So if you are looking for royalty-free music and you need something beyond the 30 Scores that are included in Soundbooth CS3, please go to Resource Central and checkout the additional 45 Scores that are available.

Lawson

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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

Posted by Lawson Hancock at 05:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)