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NEWS • AUGUST 7, 2000
Felt Tip Releases Sound Studio 1.4
New version offers faster disk operation, Windows WAVE support

by David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com

Felt Tip Software today announced an update to Sound Studio, a Mac-only shareware audio editing application. The previous version was released just a week earlier. Designed for use with the Mac's built-in audio, Sound Studio 1.4 offers 44.1 KHz, 16-bit stereo recording, background recording and the ability to play one sound file while recording another. The editor provides a waveform view of the recording, single-channel editing for independent stereo channel editing, filters, pitch-shifting and resampling.

New features in version 1.4 and include:

• Faster disk operations (uses most of application RAM as buffer);
• New, faster resampling code (uses linear interpolation and averaging);
• Windows WAVE file format support;
• System 7 Sound file format support;
• The Silence, Amplify, Normalize, Fade In, and Fade Out filters now blend (cross-fade) their edges by 0.5 milliseconds;
• Noise Gate filter rewritten to have a smoother transition;
• Internal calculations use 64-bit floating point representations;
• Dithering: when downsampling and applying filters, triangular pdf dithering is used.

Sound Studio opens and saves in AIFF, Windows WAVE, System 7 Sound, and Sound Designer II file formats. A 14-day trial version can be downloaded from Felt Tip's Web site. The software costs $25. For more information, visit http://www.felttip.com.

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