Sound Studio is an audio recording and editing app for the Mac OS.

Sound Studio is a nice tool that allows you to take full advantage of your Mac's built-in sound recording and playback capabilities, to digitize your collection of vinyl and tapes, to do live recording of audio, to edit new and pre-existing digital audio, and to save your audio in AIFF or Sound Designer II format to be used in other audio apps.

This beta version exipres on August 1, 2005, and does not require a registration code to run. The version 2.2 beta 1 is not a complete application yet and has some known issues.

Sound Studio 3 is an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing digital audio on your computer. Digitize tapes and vinyl records, record live performances, create your own mixes with crossfades, tweak the levels and EQ, apply digital effects and save in all major file formats with Sound Studio 3!

The Mac’s most popular audio program for many years, Sound Studio continues to be regularly updated to add new features and to take advantage of the very latest Apple technologies.

With Sound Studio 3 you can record professional sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog. Check out the article on Suggested Recording Hardware to find out more about how to mic properly and other useful audio information.

Positioned perfectly between more expensive programs with steep learning curves and far less robust apps, Sound Studio is for anyone who needs to record or edit audio with a professional tool, but at a consumer price!

Here are some key features of "Sound Studio":

Designed for mutiple audio tasks:
· Record live performances, classroom lectures, or sermons
· Digitize vinyl records and cassette tapes, turn them into MP3s or CDs
· Create DJ mixes by combining multiple tracks, and match beats with pitch and tempo shifting
· Clean up audio samples with EQ, fade envelope, dynamics compression, and other effects
· Record your own podcast and interviews, edit out the mistakes, uhs, and umms, and encode in MP3 or AAC for your podcast feed
Recording and editing:
· Natively edit in 32-bit floating-point for high precision with no need to worry about clipping or noise floors
· Handles any sample rate: playback and recording limited only to hardware capabilities
· Use your Mac’s built-in audio hardware, or connect to any Core-Audio-based audio device including USB microphones and converter boxes
· Layer sounds with multiple tracks: unlimited number of tracks, record to one or two tracks, and mixdown all tracks to stereo or mono
· Low latency audio
· Timer recording
· Automatic starting and stopping of recording based on audio volume level thresholds
· Smooth zooming in and out of the audio waveform
· Zoom in all the way in to individual sample level and make edits with sample-accuracy
· Ruler units for film (24 fps and feet-frames) and television (25/30 fps)
· Marker system for placing cue points or chapter markers
· Save each chapter as a separate file or track for importing into iTunes
· Grid system for aligning edits to whole packet sizes, BPM, or other units
· Supports 2-axis mouse scroll ball/wheel for zooming and scrolling
· Supports several ProTools-style keyboard shortcuts
· Tone and noise generators for creating sounds from scratch
· Analyze frequency content using the Fourier Transform
Built-in filters:
· Amplify/Volume
· Fade In
· Fade Out
· Fade Special: create your own envelope
· Normalize: amplify the volume to the maximum without clipping
· Dynamics Compressor: even out the amplitude highs and lows
· Dynamics Expander: exaggerate the amplitude highs and lows
· Noise Gate Expander: silence out the noisy bits between words or songs
· Add Noise
· DC Offset: add or remove any non-audio voltage
· Interpolate: repair clicks and pops
· Invert Signal Polarity: fix audio made with reversed wiring
· Swap Left and Right Channels: fix audio made with switched cables
· Backwards/Reverse Audio: like playing a record backwards
· Chorus: make the audio sound richer
· Delay and Echo
· Flanger: special effect
· Pitch and Tempo: slow down or speed up audio without changing the pitch, or change the pitch without changing the speed, or any combination of the above
· Reverb: make the audio sound fuller, as if in a different environment
· 3-Band EQ: adjust the bass, mids, and treble
· 10-Band EQ: adjust 10 different frequencies from 40 Hz to 20.5 kHz
· Graphic Equalizer: create your own parametric EQ envelope
· High Pass Filter: remove all frequencies below the threshold
· Low Pass Filter: remove all frequencies above the threshold


Requirements:

· 500 Mhz or faster
· 16 MB VRAM minimum
· 512 MB RAM minimum
· 500 MB hard drive space minimum


Limitations:

· The free trial download is fully-functional for 10 launches.