Sound Studio 3 - Apple Mac

Record, edit, and add effects to audio

The essential tool for working with digital audio!

Sound Studio 3 is an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing audio digitally 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!

Perfect for Podcasts

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 3 is for anyone who needs to record or edit audio. Some other possible applications include:

• Lectures
• Voice-notes
• Sermons
• Performances and more!

Detailed 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 (launch Automator to see the bundled actions)
• 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)

Editing:

• 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

Effects:

• 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

File Formats:

• 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)

System Requirements

• Mac OS 10.3.9 or better, including Mac OS 10.4
• Power PC G3 500MHz or better, including G4 and G5
• Minimum 1G Hard Drive Space
• Audio Hardware: Built-in audio or other Core Audio compatible hardware.