Did you ever wish you could have a powerful editor and an advanced batch-processor in a single application? Introducing Sound Grinder Pro, the best waveform editor and batch-processor combination ever available!

Building on the success of Sound Grinder, we have created Sound Grinder Pro to meet the advanced needs of the production community. From advanced metadata and file support to the new waveform editor, you will save yourself a significant amount of time in editing and processing tasks, and with full support for both Intel and PPC processors, you can be assured that your results are fast, efficient and rock solid!

Sound Grinder Pro was also built as a companion to your DAW workstation with advanced naming, metadata processing, and drag-n-drop importing into Pro Tools or other DAW software. Try Sound Grinder Pro today and you will see how it can make a difference in your production environment!

Waveform Editing
With its efficient design, you will quickly find your way around the editor, saving time in your editing tasks. Work with fades, loops and markers with an intuitive interface. You can also edit multi-channel audio and customize the editing environment to your liking. Use the unique waveform overview to quickly navigate the audio and locate edits. Create and name regions for easy separation and exporting. Perform actions such as Normalize, Auto-Region, Auto-Trim, Apply Plugins, Change Sample Rate and much more.

Plug-in Processing
Batch-process your audio files through your favorite AU and VST plug-ins. Create a custom pipeline, preview your results before processing and create presets or Droplets to process your files with simple drag-n-drop.

High Quality MP3 including MP3 Surround
Sound Grinder Pro includes the powerful MP3 codec from Thomson/Fraunhofer. This new codec offers pristine conversion that is a must-have for audio production today. You can also create mono, stereo and 5.1 surround files in the MP3 format. In addition, we include the LAME MP3 codec for those die-hard producers to get the right compression for the job. Download the demo and hear the incredible clarity you can achieve with this new codec.

Metadata Processing
Todays content producer needs the ability to edit metadata data quickly and in large batches. To meet that need, we have included several powerfully efficient metadata tools. Copy the metadata from one file or move metadata from one tag to another, all in a single batch process.

Additional Processing
Process your files with these and many other time-saving features:
· Droplets: Create droplets for those repetitive tasks. Then simply drag and drop assets and they will be processed with your custom settings.
· Movie Preview: Preview the video track of video files, and process the audio while retaining the video track.
· Rapid Convert: Use Rapid Convert to activate the Sound Grinder Pro processing engine from the Finder, even using previously created presets.
· Process: Perform advanced file processing on your audio assets and then open them in another application. Change formats, apply normalizing, apply AU and VST plugins. Create presets for quick recall of common settings. Apply advanced naming schemes to the output files.

Here are some key features of "Sound Grinder Pro":

Power:
· Sophisticated processing engine for speed and stability.
· One window design.
· Customizable list view.
· Resizable control section.
· Rapid Convert providing in-Finder file conversion.
· Unattended processing mode.
· Multiple error logging levels.
· Unicode support.

Processing:
· Comprehensive conversion engine.
· Droplets for drag-n-drop processing.
· AU and VST plugin support.
· Multi-channel file support.
· RMS and Peak normalizing.
· Advanced naming options.
· User presets.
· "Retain Folder Structure" option.
· Naming options for Pro Tools compatibility with split audio files.
· Pull-up/pull-down sample rates.
· Custom sample rates.
· 31 character name limit support.

Waveform Editing:
· Mutli-channel editing.
· Movie Preview while editing.
· Waveform overview with advanced selection options.
· Sample-level editing
· Resizable channel waveform view
· Support for fades/loops/markers/regions.
· Auto-trimming.
· Auto-regioning with naming.
· Region exporting
· Comprehensive edit actions.

Metadata:
· Metadata batch-processing.
· Copy metadata from selection
· Support for Finder/Spotlight comments.
· Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and Quicktime User Data.
· All metadata viewable in the list view.

Playback:
· Preview process settings.
· Full playback control including scrubbing.
· Playback slider.
· Loop playback.
· Quicktime movie video preview.

Requirements:

· Quicktime 6.4 or greater (Quicktime 6.5 is required for AMR Narrowband support), (Quicktime 6.5.1 is required for Apple Lossless support).
· 800 x 600 screen resolution.

Limitations:

· 15 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Updated Normalizing Analysis - Updated Normalizing Analysis to include stereo to mono mixing.
· Fixed crash issue with Rapid Convert - Fixed an issue where the application would crash when a Rapid Convert process finished.
· Fixed an issue with Audio Unit plug-in support - Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed incorrectly when creating certain combinations of plugins.

Enhanced Process -> Metadata Tab:
· Added contextual menus for items whose data values are not strings.
· Removed current item from contextual menu (so you can't set an item as its own source).
· Items that have values now have their labels displayed using a bold font.
· Added "Exclude in Export" setting to cause an item to not be included in the exported file.
· Added Filename, Data Fork Size, Resource Fork Size, Creation Date, and Modification Date as metadata sources.
· Added Spotlight Comments as an item that can be specified or set from a source.

· Enhanced Naming Options - Added Data Fork Size, Resource Fork Size, Creation Date, Modification Date, and Spotlight Comment as sources.
· Fixed issues in Portion Processing - Fixed an issue that prevented Portion Processing from functioning properly.
· Fixed issues with creating and reading split files - Fixed several issues related to creating split files and importing and reading split files.
· Added an additional split file naming option - Added the ability to import and export split files named according to filename_channel.type.
· Fixed MP3 import crash - Fixed a crash when importing MP3 files that contain an ID3 v2.4 tag.
· Fixed an issue that would cause some conversion combinations to fail with an error
· Fixed an issue that caused some conversions to fail with the error "error in user parameter list".
· General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.