Issue #12 (February, 2010)
Table of Contents for this Issue:
- Active DJ Studio v5.0 (ActiveX control) and Audio Studio for .NET v4.0 (.NET component) released
- Active Sound Recorder v4.0 (ActiveX control) and Audio Sound Recorder for .NET v4.0 (.NET component) released
- Active Sound Editor v2.0 (ActiveX control) and Audio Sound Editor for .NET v2.0 (.NET component) released
- Version 2010 of our sound related suites have been released
- Enhance you applications with Ribbon Bar Icons (Multimedia Edition)
- Discounts for customers
- Advertise your products for free
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Active DJ Studio v5.0 (ActiveX control) and
Audio DJ Studio for .NET v4.0 (.NET component)
released
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A brief summary of new features:
- Possibility, through custom stream mixers, to mix songs at application level, allowing to save mixing results through the integration with our Sound Recorder controls or to send mixing results to a streaming server; the output of each stream mixer allows applying special effects like visual feedbacks, output change, volume change, preamplifier, equalizer, DMO, etc.
- Support for ASIO drivers with the possibility to directly playback the sound stream coming from ASIO input channels of the sound card
- Support for acting as a source for ShoutCAST, IceCast and Windows Media Services streaming servers
- Support for sending sound in WMA format to a specific network port
- Reduced latency when playing the sound coming from a an input channel opened by Active Sound Recorder
- Support for configurable normalization of sound level
- Equalizer bands can now be set for frequencies under 80 Hz
- Support for video mixing/blending
- Audio management for playback of video clips totally rewritten, allowing to play the audio track through ASIO drivers
- Mixing/blending of video clips inside a video mixer output window, with support for separate preview windows
- Support for customizable On-Screen-Display (OSD) on the video mixer window
- Video clips can be rendered on more than one output window in perfect sync
- Latency between audio and video tracks of video clips can be now configured
- Support for loading a video clip from a memory buffer
- If allowed by the DirectShow codec, possibility to proceed by steps inside a video clip
- Possibility to obtain further information about loaded video clips, like codecs used for audio and video streams and number of "frames per second"
- Support for volume automation with possibility to design volume curves
- Support for new proprietary playlist format (PDJ), allowing to predispose mixing automation and volume automation on each single song and to play encrypted sounds
- Support for video files inside playlists
- Support for ALAC, Speex, Musepack e Monkey's Audio (APE) audio formats
- Support for reading BEXT and CART chunks in WAV files
- Most common tags (author, title, album, year and genre) can be retrieved for ID3V1, ID3V2, WMA, Ogg, APE and MP4 tags
- Knowing artist and album title, possibility to retrieve the purchase page for the related CD from the Amazon store
- Knowing artist and track title, possibility to online retrieve lyrics content
- VU-Meter can now reflect volume changes
- Support for stream queuing, allowing to play sound streams coming from an external source
- Integration with Microsoft's Speech API (only for "Audio DJ Studio for .NET"), allowing to apply sound effects and output redirection to the sound stream generated by the SetOutputToAudioStream function of an instance of the System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer class (requires .NET framework v. 3.0 or higher)
- Support for common filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and stop-band)
- The number of spectrum bands can be now defined in the range 8-64
- Support for extraction of the audio track available inside a video clip, allowing to perform silence detection, BPM detection and waveform analysis
Further details about these controls can be found below:
- Active DJ Studio
Web page:
http://www.activedjstudio.com
Online documentation:
http://www.activedjstudio.com/help
Product history:
http://www.activedjstudio.com/help/amp3dj_00005d.htm
- Audio DJ Studio for .NET
Web page:
http://www.audiodjstudio.com
Online documentation:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/adjstudnet/help
Product history:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/adjstudnet/help/adjstudnet_000108.htm
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Active Sound Recorder v4.0 (ActiveX control) and
Audio Sound Recorder for .NET v4.0 (.NET component)
released
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A brief summary of new features:
- Support for ASIO drivers
- Possibility to improve audio quality during an export with down-mixing
- Recording of audio streams mixed and played through Audio DJ Studio for .NET
- Detection and reporting of the highest peak during the waveform analysis
- Support for encryption/decryption of recorded sounds, often required by medical confidentiality laws
- Possibility to discriminate between different input channels (microphone, Line-in, etc.)
- The number of spectrum bands can be now defined in the range 8-64
- Vertical zoom inside WaveformAnalyzer
- Vertical scale of the WaveformAnalyzer can be displayed in dB
- Inside the WaveformAnalyzer, position line and custom lines can be now moved using the mouse
- After a waveform analysis, possibility to request the min and max peak levels inside a given sound range
- Possibility to obtain the rectangle of each element of the WaveformAnalyzer (waveform, rulers, etc.)
- Support for rendering custom graphics on the surface of the WaveformAnalyzer through Windows API
- Support for adding specific tag information to recording sessions in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP4 and WMA formats
- CD ripping automation, allowing to rip a set of tracks inside one single output file or inside a separate file for each track
- During a CD ripping session, possibility to normalize CD tracks before sending them to the encoder
- When switching the output file of a recording session, there is now the possibility to change recording settings and eventual tag information
- During a recording session, possibility to enumerate and to obtain size and duration of each file generated after output file switch operations
- Support for WMA profiles
- Possibility to load the audio track of video clips through integration with Audio DJ Studio for .NET
- Possibility to perform append and mixing automation operations on previously recorded audio tracks through integration with Audio Sound Editor for .NET
Further details about these controls can be found below:
- Active Sound Recorder
Web page:
http://www.activesoundrecorder.com
Online documentation:
http://www.activesoundrecorder.com/help
Product history:
http://www.activesoundrecorder.com/help/asrec_00005d.htm
- Audio Sound Recorder for .NET
Web page:
http://www.audiosoundrecorder.com
Online documentation:
http://www.audiosoundrecorder.com/help
Product history:
http://www.audiosoundrecorder.com/help/asrecnet_00001d.htm
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Active Sound Editor v2.0 (ActiveX control) and
Audio Sound Editor for .NET v2.0 (.NET component)
released
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A brief summary of new features:
- Enumeration of silent portions of sound
- Filter for hiss noise removal
- Filter for clicks and pops removal
- Filter for volume level normalization
- Possibility to load the audio track of video clips through integration with Audio DJ Studio for .NET
- Support for "Append automation", allowing to append several files in one single shot
- Support for "Mixing automation", allowing to mix several files or contents of other instances of the control in one single shot
- Possibility to improve audio quality during an export with down-mixing
- Extended support for creating volume automation procedures with possibility to design the volume curve
- Vertical zoom inside WaveformAnalyzer
- Vertical scale of the WaveformAnalyzer can be displayed in dB
- Inside the WaveformAnalyzer, position line and custom lines can be now moved using the mouse
- After a waveform analysis, possibility to request the min and max peak levels inside a given sound range
- Possibility to obtain the rectangle of each element of the WaveformAnalyzer (waveform, rulers, etc.)
- Support for rendering custom graphics on the surface of the WaveformAnalyzer through Windows API
- Equalizer effect can now support bands whose center frequency is below 80 Hz
- Export in WMA format can be based upon WMA profiles
- Lengthy operations like loading, editing, mixing and exporting sessions can now be canceled
Further details about these controls can be found below:
- Active Sound Editor
Web page:
http://www.activesoundeditor.com
Online documentation:
http://www.activesoundeditor.com/help
Product history:
http://www.activesoundeditor.com/help/asoed_00014e.htm
- Audio Sound Editor for .NET
Web page:
http://www.audiosoundeditor.com
Online documentation:
http://www.audiosoundeditor.com/help
Product history:
http://www.audiosoundeditor.com/help/asoednet_000150.htm
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Version 2010 of our sound related suites
have been released
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Below the list of available suites with respective included components:
Suites of ActiveX controls:
- Active Sound Suite v2010 (Full) contains Active DJ Studio v5.0, Active Sound Recorder v4.0 and Active Sound Editor v2.0
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asost
- Active Sound Suite v2010 (Compact) contains Active DJ Studio v5.0 and Active Sound Recorder v4.0
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asost
- Active Sound Studio v2010 contains Active Sound Recorder v4.0 and Active Sound Editor v2.0
http://www.activesoundstudio.com
Suites of NET components:
- Audio Sound Suite for .NET v2010 (Full) contains Audio DJ Studio v4.0, Audio Sound Recorder v4.0 and Audio Sound Editor v2.0
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asostnet
- Audio Sound Suite for .NET v2010 (Compact) contains Audio DJ Studio v4.0 and Audio Sound Recorder v4.0
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asostnet
- Audio Sound Studio for .NET v2010 contains Audio Sound Recorder v4.0 and Audio Sound Editor v2.0
http://www.audiosoundstudio.com/
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Enhance you applications with
Ribbon Bar Icons (Multimedia Edition)
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Ribbon Bar Icons (Multimedia Edition), designed by Perpetuum Soft LLC specifically for MultiMedia Soft customers, introduces a splendid icon collection designed for multimedia applications and websites. This icon set will help you design intuitive and attractive user interface and enhance usability of your software.
Further details and screenshots available on the link below:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/mmicons
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Discounts for customers
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Who can benefit discounts?
- Customers that in the past have purchased one or more of our products
- Customers that need purchasing more than one product at the same time
Contact our Sales department for requesting a discounted quote:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/contact
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Advertise your products for free
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Are you aware of the fact that if you have developed a product containing one of our controls, you have the possibility to advertise it for free inside the "Customers" section of our web site?
Simply fill the form you find here:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/form.htm
and your product will be listed here:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/customers/customersproducts.html
If in the past you have already submitted your product, and now you have an updated version, feel free to submit it again so we will be able to keep the advertised products up-to-date.
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