Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
The essential tool for working with digital audio.
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Overview
Positioned perfectly between more expensive programs with steep learning curves, and far less robust apps, Sound Studio is also the perfect app for recording voiceovers, tweaking audio or creating sound effects. In fact, Freeverse has used it for years to create all the dialog and sound effects in its games.
Features
Recording
- Multi-track support: layer stereo sounds and save in interleaved format
- Audio Unit plug-in effect support
- Saves in MPEG-4 AAC (advanced audio coding) m4a format
- Saves in MP3 when the LAME framework is installed
- Automator support
- Added "New Mono Document" command for quickly creating a monophonic document
- 24-bit/96 kHz sample quality, in stereo or mono
- Low latency monitoring, using Core Audio
- Automatic recording starting and stopping based on timers or audio levels (a.k.a. VOX)
- Sample-accurate edits
- Markers (a.k.a. Cue Points) with text labels
- Time ruler with units for video and film
- Copy-and-paste editing
- Basic mixing edits
- AppleScript and Automator support
- Supports Audio Units
- Dynamics: Compressor, Expander, and Noise Gate
- Equalization: Graphic EQ, Low Pass Filter, and High Pass Filter
- Delay: Chorus, Flanger, Echo, and Reverb
- Volume: Amplify, Fade In/Out/Special, and Normalize
- Repair: Interpolate, Silence, DC Offset, and Swap Channels
- Repair clicks and pops by interpolating samples or silencing them
- Tone, FM and noise generators
- Pitch adjustment
- Backwards/Reverse Audio
- AIFF (.aif) and AIFF-C (.aifc) with compression including IMA 4:1
- AAC and MP3 (importing only)
- Sound Designer II
- Wave (.wav, PCM only)
- Tab-delimited text (export only)
- Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later
- 500MHz G3 or faster
- 512MB RAM
- 1GB free hard-disk space minimum (for storing audio data)
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Most Useful Reviews
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Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
Great Product
Written by SC from Morning View
Apr 12, 2006
I've been looking for a program similar to Macromedia Soundedit 16 on the OS X side. I've used Audacity (Buggy) & Peak Express 4 (ok) and was getting by with them for audio editing. Came across Sound Studio 3 at the Apple store and have been very pleased. …More
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Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
Good for what it is.
Written by TC from CALGARY
Mar 2, 2007
I have been using this as a waveform editor since the dark ages (Mac OS 7). You wouldn't use this to create music, but it can be useful if you need to apply some effects to a waveform.
It sure came in handy recently when I was recording some falsetto vocals in GarageBand and the volume was inconsistent. I brought the waveforms into sound studio and use the normalize filter. Closed and reopened the GB file and it was all fixed.
Maybe the name of the product is confusing people who give this a bad review. It's not a sound studio so much as a sound editor.
P.S. I Use version 2.03 under Rosetta. I'm considering upgrading to 3 after I dug this up to fix the problem I described above. …More218 of 327 people found this useful
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Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
Excellent sound solution
Written by DG from Flagstaff
Jun 27, 2006
I have been using Sound Studio since version 1. It has been and remains a powerful sound editing system. The current version is very robust and is software written for the Mac rather than a system that has been hacked and ported from the other side. …More
229 of 358 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
Quick and Easy!
Written by RD from Forfar
Aug 22, 2009
For quick voice overs, sound recording, quick ring tone cuts or converting of audio and editing... it saves you opening up a garageband or logic project and allows for editing when converting file types unlike switch or others!
I used Sound Studio first when the eMac came about and it cam with the install discs! And now continue using it on my leopard!
…More6 of 6 people found this useful
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Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
Good for what it is.
Written by TC from CALGARY
Mar 2, 2007
I have been using this as a waveform editor since the dark ages (Mac OS 7). You wouldn't use this to create music, but it can be useful if you need to apply some effects to a waveform.
It sure came in handy recently when I was recording some falsetto vocals in GarageBand and the volume was inconsistent. I brought the waveforms into sound studio and use the normalize filter. Closed and reopened the GB file and it was all fixed.
Maybe the name of the product is confusing people who give this a bad review. It's not a sound studio so much as a sound editor.
P.S. I Use version 2.03 under Rosetta. I'm considering upgrading to 3 after I dug this up to fix the problem I described above. …More218 of 327 people found this useful
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Sound Studio 3 by Freeverse
a mixed bag
Written by MF from birmingham
Dec 4, 2006
the interface is great...very intuitive. it had most of the features i was looking for without having to spend a bundle however it CANNOT pitch shift or time stretch (even 1 or 2 %) smoothly without noticeable distortion. if the only thing you need to do are simple edits and the like i could recommend this. …More
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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What noise reduction features does this provide? I need to eliminate a low hum from the analogue recorder on which the original audiotape was made.
- Asked by DS from Los Angeles
- Oct 24, 2009
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What noise reduction features does this provide? I need to eliminate a low hum from the analogue recorder on which the original audiotape was made.
- Asked by DS from Los Angeles
- Oct 24, 2009
