- Fixed bug with Paste which resulted in error -39
- Recording now automatically stops before it hits 2 GB mark
- Fixed bug with playing 11kHz 8-bit mono files
- Carbon version for Mac OS X is available
• Version 1.5.3 - December 29, 2000
- Fixed bug where pausing playback or recording didn't pause the timers
• Version 1.5.2 - December 19, 2000
- Disabled QuickTime playback since it doesn't recognize file edits
- Fixed recording bug which caused it to record to middle of file
- Fixed checks on max sample rate, 65535 Hz
- If Import with QuickTime fails, an alert is now shown
- Undo after canceled Backwards filter now works correctly
• Version 1.5.1 - December 17, 2000
- Fixed crashes that occur after a progress window is closed
- Added option to not Show Waveform (tape-style display)
- Undo after a canceled command now works correctly
- QuickTime is used for playback if it is installed
- Known Bug: Importing IMA 4:1 compressed audio doesn't work
• Version 1.5 - December 15, 2000
This version includes several new features and fixes some bugs.
New features:
- Faster waveform redraw
- Faster filters
- Single channel cut, copy, and paste now possible
- Open CD Audio Tracks directly
- Import with QuickTime
- Import/Export Dual Mono
- Paste Mix, overlays one sound onto another
- Split, splits file in two at cursor
- Looping of playback
- Sound Input Device & Source selector
- Insert Silence, Noise, Tone, and FM Synthesis
- "Last Filter" command, which repeats the last selected filter
- Fade Special filter
- Add Noise filter
- Snap to Grid option
- Snap to Zeroes option
- Cycle Through Windows command
User Interface tweaks:
- Waveform now drawn in a darker grey
- Zoom In/Out zooms in on selection instead of center of window
- Cut/Copy clears clipboard before starting copy to clipboard
- Arrow keys scroll the main view more predictably
- Days left of trial period shown in About box
- Removed sound input source controls from Input Levels palette
- Pitch Shift (was Change Duration/Pitch) shows alert if sample rate is over 65.553 kHz
- Delete Scratch Files shows how many files were deleted
Bug fixes:
- Crop, Paste, and other commands which change the length of a file should no longer crash
- Opening files should no longer intermittently crash
- Canceling while opening a file should no longer crash
- Fixed memory leaks in core of applicatoin
• Version 1.4.5 - October 15, 2000
- Removed dependency on Internet Config
- Moved Web site links to the new Web menu
• Version 1.4.4 - September 11, 2000
- Fixed a bug with opening and saving 8-bit WAVE files
• Version 1.4.3 - August 22, 2000
- Lowered system requirements to Mac OS 8.1 or later.
- Fixed a bug in Paste which would result in error -39.
- Added a "Delete Scratch Files" button in Preferences for cleaning up Sound Studio temp files.
- Resampling code is now approximately 5 times faster.
• Version 1.4.2 - August 10, 2000
Fixed several bugs:
- fixed a bug that caused Normalize to behave unpredictably
- fixed a bug in the dithering code that caused saturated samples to overflow (positive became negative)
- fixed a display bug in the sound view where the selection wasn't being drawn on activate/deactivate
- fixed a recording bug which caused swapped left and right channels while recording
• Version 1.4.1 - August 8, 2000
Fixed a bug that affected insert edits, including Insert Silence and Paste.
• Version 1.4 - August 7, 2000
This version includes the new User's Manual and has a few bug fixes.
New features:
- 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
- WWW links to felttip.com in Register menu
- New document icons (rebuild your Desktop Database to see the icons)
- 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
Bug fixes:
- "Open" menu command now works
- Cut, and delete editing commands no longer scroll window to beginning of file
- Cut and paste no longer generate type-3 errors
- Sound Input palette can no longer be placed off-screen
- Editing to end of file no longer generates -39 errors
• Version 1.3 - July 30, 2000
New features:
- Single-channel editing of stereo files
- Sound Designer II file format support
- sound input source selector and play-thru checkbox
- new large document icons which say 'AIFF' and 'SDII'
- looping playback (though not perfect yet)
Bug fixes:
- can now open files with non-native sample rates, size, and channels
- can now select to actual end of file
- no longer crashes when trying to cancel an operation in progress
UI tweaks:
- "Time Remaining" display in progress windows
- levels & volume sliders return to defaults when double-clicked
- error alerts now appear in non-modal windows
- removed startup screen
- default zoom now 1:500, and small files expand to fill window
- "Playback Volume" display updates correctly when dragging its slider
- "Noise Gate" dialog now keeps settings between uses
- registration dialog more forgiving of extra characters
- double-clicking sound views now selects all
- copy and paste now have progress windows
- sound overview panel behaves differently from the main edit view panel
- pasting or recording into a blank file now refreshes the window properly
New requirements:
- Mac OS 8.5 (for Appearance & Navigation Services)
- PowerPC Macintosh
• Version 1.2.1 - July 10, 2000
bug fixes:
- fixed registration for 68K Macs
- copy-and-paste now works reliably
- fixed bug which omitted updating the menus after selecting or editing the audio
- selecting the last few samples in a file should now be possible
• Version 1.2 - May 17, 2000
This release brings two major new features to Sound Studio: disk-based copy-and-paste, and pitch shifting. Disk-based copy-and-paste allows you to copy audio from one file to another without having to increase Sound Studio's memory allocation by scores of megabytes. Pitch shifting allows you to change the pitch and duration of audio by changing its sample rate.
new features:
- New command for changing pitch and duration of sound by changing sample rate.
- Copy/paste is now disk-based.
- Dialog boxes for filter, edit, and other commands are persistent (they don't revert
to default values every time you use them).
- Record button is now available even when level meter palette is closed.
- Revert is now threaded (can run in the background) and has its own progress window.
- Flicker-free elapsed time and remaining time displays.
- Cosmetic bug with paste and insert time commands is fixed.
- Balloon help for all menu commands.
• Version 1.1.5 - February 28, 2000
- amplify and normalize filters now works with 8-bit audio
• Version 1.1.4 - December 15, 1999
This version lets you copy-and-paste more than a minute of audio data, and includes a short primer on the filters.
(Fixed a bug which erroneously caused a 'not enough memory' error when trying to copy-and-paste more than a minute of audio data.)
• Version 1.1.3 - November 22, 1999
bug fixes:
- Cancelling or a full scratch disk while opening or saving doesn't crash anymore.
- Shortening an audio file will now result in a smaller file.
