Comments on: Adobe Soundbooth Beta First Look: Simplified Audio Editor for Quick Sound Editing (Windows, Mac)

By: adam 2

adam 2 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:30:16 +0000

hey am looking for a software that can split music in which i mean the singers voice can be slit from the music and have it by itself or vies versa you know the software that they have on t.v. all the time were the cop is sitting with the computer guy and says “wait wait what is that noise in the background can you isolate it and get rid of the ground noise” and that the computer guy go ya i can do that bla bla bla
can any one help me with this all i would liketo now is some names of the software for a mac as well please thanks

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:58:52 +0000

Absolute rubbish.

This program went from feature rich (back in the CoolEdit Pro days) to absolutely piss poor. This is a flashing looking Hyundai for the price of a decked-out Benz.

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By: Gwillmeister

Gwillmeister — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:55:43 +0000

Cool Edit was one of the best sound programs of it time and now is Audition 2.0 and thats probably the best of its time. I pity those who think SONY Sound Forge is the way to go. Now Come on. Sony. Anyway the look of this program is ok, i guess but do they have to mould this look with Audition? now its all harder to navigate. The old Cool Edit Pro 2.0 look was much better.

By: Billy Howard

Billy Howard — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:18:14 +0000

how do you open an mp3 file in soundbooth?

By: Create Digital Music » Adobe Soundbooth Beta 2: Now Easier, More Photoshop-y

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:29:57 +0000

[...] The good news is, Soundbooth betas show a lot of promise: it could well become the simple audio editor “for the rest of us”. Not everyone needs the full feature set of tools like Audition Pro on Windows or Peak Pro on the Mac (and Soundtrack Pro, before Apple annoyingly decided to give it only to Final Cut buyers). As we saw in my preview of the first beta, Audition offers a really elegant way to edit, taking some of the best of all these programs and packaging them in a single, streamlined tool. This is still a beta, so it’s too soon to say for sure how well the finished product will work — and readers immediately pointed to some missing functionality they wanted to see. But it’s already great fun to play with, and getting more so fast. [...]

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:26:28 +0000

You’re completely right, and “beta” is becoming meaningless. I had to double-check I didn’t dub that, but in fact, Adobe calls this a beta. It’s really more accurately a product preview, which they explain in the FAQ.

Compare, for instance, Adobe Labs’ Flash 9 Player, which is feature complete and already quite solid and reliable, and even suggested for use in serious work even given its beta status.

My sense with Soundbooth is that we’ll see some very significant changes. Perhaps Adobe will be nice enough to even give us another preview. But “beta”, it’s really not.

By: eshefer

eshefer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:18:19 +0000

The term “beta software” usualy implies a feature compleate release which needs debuging - hence my rather hasty remark.

though in this day and age “beta” software can mean everything from feature incompleate buggy alpha code to production grade released product, depending on the company, market and climet.

I haven’t played with it enough to form an opinion (other then “ugh! no mp3, it’s useless for my current project!”).

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:27:15 +0000

Adobe hasn’t released ANY feature lists for Soundbooth. They have said, specifically, that they’re only releasing a subset of the functionality to users. In my experience, the program has been very stable, so my sense is what they did was to make a “preview” build containing features that were largely complete and leave out everything else. (Note that I did NOT test the Mac build, because I only have PowerPC Macs, so I wasn’t able to reproduce Sammy’s issues above.)

These are just first impressions of what’s there, nothing more. We’ll have a chance to give Soundbooth a real test next year, when we’ll know what features Adobe has planned for it.

By: eshefer

eshefer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:40:55 +0000

ehem.. ahem.. ah?

did I miss something here or is there really no mp3 file import/output support?

without this this program is usless. period. if you need another program to export/import mp3 files, the simplified workflow is worth absolute ziltch.