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SoundWorks

An Application to Record, Edit and Mix Sounds

SoundWorks was a standalone sound recording and editing application that used a familiar tape player interface. A sound editing window allowed quick cut, copy, and paste of sounds using audio and visual cues. Special effects options include fade in and out, filter, echo or reverb, and mix or superimpose sounds.

Before recording from the DSP make sure to connect the proper audio input device (such as Digital Ears from Metaresearch or Ariel's Digital Microphone) to the DSP port on the back of the NeXT Computer.

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SoundWorks was a powerful, easy-to-use application for creating and managing sounds on NEXTSTEP. It was a must for anyone using the powerful sound capabilities on NeXTStep With SoundWorks, you could record, edit and mix CD-quality sounds in much the same way that you manipulate text with a word processor or modify images with a graphics program. You could apply effects to sounds, such as reverb, envelope and pitch backward. You could even create your own custom effects. Mix any number of tracked and up to 12 in real time (depending on the speed of your system). Sounds could be compressed to save disk space, even while recording; compressed sounds were decompressed automatically when played back. SoundWorks could import and export sound to any other NeXTStep application, making it trivial to integrate sound into any document, even on another computer.

Effects:

SoundWorks has a wide variety of digital effects that can be applied to sounds. Each effect has its own set of parameters which is customized by the user. The standard effects included in the SoundWorks package are:

Gain Envelope
Echo Normalization
Graphic EQ Reverb
Backwards Pitch
Pitch Bender Balance/Pan

Custom Effects:

You can use the included effects to create and save your own custom effects. For example a "tape rewind" effect is created by combining the reverse effect with a pitch change envelope:

Mixing:

SoundWorks allows you to mix any number of sounds. Depending on the speed of your system, some number of sounds will mix in real time. Usually, at least 4 channels will mix in real time and some systems can handle 12 channels.

Other features:

SoundWorks has support for ATC compression developed at CCRMA (10:1 compression with virtually no loss). SoundWorks also has support for other popular sound formats (.au, .aiff, .voc, .wav, .sf, .hjcom).

SoundWorks User Guide

Metaresearch. Inc
$395
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