Newsletter archive | MultiMedia Soft

Issue #9 (March 16, 2007)

Table of Contents for this Issue:
- Active Sound Recorder v2.0 (ActiveX control) and Audio Sound Recorder for .NET v2.0 (.NET component) released
- Active Sound Suite v2007 (ActiveX controls) and Audio Sound Suite for .NET v2007 (.NET components) released
- Discounts for customers
- Advertise your products for free

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* Active Sound Recorder (ActiveX control) v2.0 and *
* Audio Sound Recorder for .NET v2.0 (.NET component) *
* released *
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On March 9, 2007 we have released version 2.0 of our recording related controls.

A summary of the many new available features:

- Encoding and ripping in AAC and MP4 formats (through external Faac.exe encoder)
- Encoding and ripping using Codecs installed inside the system, through Windows ACM (Audio Compression Manager)
- Ripping of predefined portions of CD tracks with resample capabilities.
- Full support for half-duplex devices like Philips SpeechMike™
- Possibility to resample sound data coming from a ripping session, changing frequency, channels and bits per sample: this will allow creating smaller output files with lower quality.
- Restarting a stopped recording session in append, insert or mix mode with the possibility to define the position where the new recording session will be inserted or mixed with the existing one.
- Cutting and removing sound portions, useful for rewind operations
- Inserting a portion of silence at a given position
- Pre-loading contents of a recording session using sound data coming from file, memory, clipboard and Internet sound files: sound data coming from the mentioned sources can be resampled before being stored
- Resampling and exporting the current contents of a recording session (or portions of the same) in all of the supported formats
- Recording from an Internet stream (HTTP, FTP or MMS) in various formats (MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis and AAC)
- Sound waveform analysis with the possibility to obtain the sound waveform in bitmap form
- Mixing the recording session over a background sound (it could be also a sample in loop mode)
- Support for clipboard import/export
- Availability of a visual sound waveform analyzer that will allow zooming inside the song waveform and selecting a portion for editing features
- Availability of graphic bars for external visual feedback implementation
- Possibility to apply the Automatic Gain Controller to the recording channel
- Uploading the contents of a recording session to a FTP site

This latest version comes with 3 different editions: Deluxe, Professional and Light (a comparison chart is available on the product's page)

Further information about these new versions can be found on the following links:

- Active Sound Recorder v2.0
information at http://www.activesoundrecorder.com
online documentation at http://www.activesoundrecorder.com/help
detailed what's new at http://www.activesoundrecorder.com/patches2.html

- Audio Sound Recorder for .NET v2.0
information at http://www.audiosoundrecorder.com
online documentation at http://www.audiosoundrecorder.com/help
detailed what's new at http://www.audiosoundrecorder.com/patches2.html

SPECIAL PROMOTION: The price of this new version is a little bit higher that the previous version but, till May 31, 2007 existing customers of previous versions can get this latest version simply paying the price difference
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Contact our Sales team in order to get discounted payment details.

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* Active Sound Suite v2007 (ActiveX controls) and *
* Audio Sound Suite for .NET v2007 (.NET components) *
* released *
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Being available a new version of the recording related controls, the sound suite products have been updated accordingly

- Active Sound Suite v2007 contains now Active DJ Studio v3.2 and Active Sound Recorder v2.0 (ActiveX controls)
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asost

- Audio Sound Suite for .NET v2007 contains Audio DJ Studio v2.3 and Audio Sound Recorder v2.0 (native .NET components)
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asostnet

This latest version comes with 2 different editions:
- Deluxe: contains the Deluxe edition of both controls
- Professional: contains the Professional edition of both controls

SPECIAL PROMOTION: The price of this new version is a little bit higher that the previous version but, till May 31, 2007 existing customers of previous versions can get this latest version simply paying the price difference.

Contact our Sales team in order to get discounted payment details.

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* Discounts for customers *
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Who can benefit discounts?
- Customers that in the past have purchased one of our product (ActiveX controls or .NET components)
- Customers that need purchasing more than one product at the same time (for example Active DJ Studio and Active Sound Recorder)
- Customers that have the time to port one or more of our existing Samples to a language different from the current one; for example our Audio related .NET components are written in C#: if you have the skills to port them into VB.NET or managed C++, simply drop us a note about your availability and we will give you more details (let us say that if you will port all of them you will get a free complimentary license of the related product).

Contact our Sales department for more details:
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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* IMPORTANT LINKS *
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Latest builds and patches for our products:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/support