Introduction

Active Sound Editor (AsoedMms.ocx) is an ActiveX control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy adding sound editing capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET. Being an ActiveX control, it can be instanced inside HTML code also and used in order to edit sounds from the client browser directly.

Active Sound Editor allows accessing and modifying audio data through several advanced features:

Load from a file, from a memory buffer or from the system Clipboard the most diffused sound formats like MP3, WAV, AIFF, OGG Vorbis, MP4 (audio frames only), AAC, M4A, AC3, FLAC, WavPack, ALAC and CD tracks. The most diffused MOD formats are managed also and, if the Microsoft Windows Media Player components are installed on the target PC, this component can open WMA files and audio frames of ASF and WMV files. If a certain ACM (Audio Compression Manager) codec has been installed inside the target PC, this component can open other compressed formats like ADPCM, GSM 6.10, Speex and so on.

Load a sound previously recorded by our Active Sound Recorder ActiveX control.

Possibility to load a new sound in "Append mode", "Insert mode", "Mix mode" or "Overwrite mode"

Possibility to load a specific range of a sound file

A background sound can be applied to the current editing session, also in loop mode

Being an ActiveX control, it can be instanced inside HTML code also and used in order to edit sounds from the client browser directly.

Deep analysis at different resolutions of the loaded sound's waveform with rich visualisation capabilities like range selection, zooming and panning

Edit loaded sound with cut, insert and mixing capabilities.

Insert or remove portions of silence

Create and apply equalizer bands

Apply volume modifications: flat volume, sliding volume and volume automation.

Apply DirectX Media Object (DMO) effects.

Apply custom DSP effects: code of DSP effects can be internal to the container application's code or inside external DLLs

Apply Virtual Studio Technology (VST) effects

Change Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch

Play the loaded and edited sound or any portion of it: if you should need more sophisticated playback features, like visual feedbacks during playback, consider using this component in conjunction with our Active DJ Studio ActiveX control.

Exporting in WAV, AIFF, AU, W64, PAF, SVX, NIST, VOC, IRCAM, PVF, CAF, FLAC, RAW formats

Exporting in MP3 format through the external Lame.exe encoder

Exporting in WMA format through the external Windows Media Audio modules

Exporting in OGG Vorbis format through the external OggEnc.exe encoder

Exporting in AAC and MP4 formats through the external Faac.exe encoder

Exporting through installed Windows ACM codecs (Audio Compression Manager)

A number of tutorials that will certainly help you beginning your developments with this powerful control can be found here.

As already mentioned before, Active Sound Editor can be fully integrated with our existing audio related ActiveX controls Active Sound Recorder and Active DJ Studio and, for your convenience, this product is actually available inside the following convenient suite of products:

Active Sound Studio: contains Active Sound Editor and Active Sound Recorder

Active Sound Suite: contains Active Sound Editor, Active DJ Studio and Active Sound Recorder

Supported target systems:

x86 versions of Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008

x64 versions of Windows XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 if the container application is compiled specifically for x86

IMPORTANT NOTES:

For redistribution of the control with your application, we recommend taking a close look to the Files to be included with your application section.