COMPANY: Freeverse | URL: www.freeverse.com/soundstudio | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac | PRICE: $79.95
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!

We at Freeverse have always found Sound Studio to be the perfect app for recording voiceovers, tweaking audio , or creating sound effects (monkey noises included of course). We've used it for years to create all the dialog and sound effects in our games, which is why we're so thrilled to be publishing this amazing new edition.

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)