Subject: Soundtrack Pro Announcement

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/soundtrackpro/

I thought some of you might be interested.

$299 standalone or $1299 if bundled with FInal Cut, Motion and DVD Studio Pro.

Long Live Soundtrack!!!

It just confuses me.

Soundtrack Pro or Logic Express?

Pretty soon Apple will have 9 sounds apps, all $50 apart, just like the iPods.

If you're making music recording instruments... it's easy. Logic all the way.

Soundtrack is a loop based editor probably simlar to Acid. And it plays extremely well with Final Cut. Very limited recording options.

i agree with the statement above. how many similar programs does apple need to produce? and it seems like everyday they come out with a new ipod. peace, frank

Yes, exactly.

I only recently got GarageBand, but I've been using Soundtrack for a few years now. While GB is great fun (...and I'm only doing this for fun), I find that Soundtrack is a preferable mixing environment for a bunch of little reasons:

--Less lag time. GB seems to do a lot more thinking when you move the playhead, add a track, change anything, etc. Just about everything in Soundtrack seems almost instantaneous, whether it's changing settings on effects, panning around in the song, etc. I like that snappier resonse from Soundtrack. It's probably because Soundtrack is...

--Less processor intensive. GB has to handle virtual instruments and recording, but Soundtrack is just playing back and processing sound files. As a result, perhaps, the snappy response in Soundtrack remains even when I'm working in big files with over 40 tracks and >100 sound files. GB seems to work slower the more tracks and files I'm using.

--The envelopes and levels are easier to read and fine tune in Soundtrack over GB.

--Soundtrack gives you much more control over effects than GB, and seemingly more sophisticated effects.

--Soundtrack puts the file list to the left of the mixing window, showing a longer list of choices than GB, and they aren't filtered by time signature unless you want them to be, which I prefer.

--There's two things I like better about GB though: better looping possibilities, because you can chop something up and loop the chopped piece. In Soundtrack, when I slice something, I need to paste multiple copies to loop it instead. Plus of course GB has virtual instruments, which is awesome--I'm just beginning to explore them.

Because I prefer the Soundtrack UI, I've taken to exporting my constructions from GB as individual tracks and doing the final mixes in Soundtrack. But, ya know, I'm really just an amateur, and I don't have experience with those other programs, which are perhaps much better.

Ok, so that's more of a comparison than you probably cared for, but I've been thinking about just this recently, and I feel like rambling. As for Soundtrack Pro, of course it's tempting, but I'm already overloaded with toys here!!

I have both Soundtrack Pro and Logic Pro. These are different applications. Soundtrack Pro is Apple's answer to editor programs like Bias Peak, DSP-Quattro and Audacity. Soundtrack Pro does multitrack editing as well as single file editing, and I think its strength is in the single file editing. One nice thing I've never seen in any other editor is that you can build a list of actions, things you perform on your soundfile, and rearrange those, delete things, compare, disable and enable again. Much like the Adobe Photoshop layers paradigm, where you flatten the results in the end. If you want to make music, Logic is much more interesting, but Logic's built-in sound editor has always been strangely archaic. So those two programs (Logic and Soundtrack Pro) really complement each other well in my opinion.

Hens Zimmerman

Nobody mentioned one of sound Track Pro's best features..... It contains all of the effects of Logic Pro. Lately I've been mixing my Logic Express projects in Soundtrack Pro.

My latest long term project is to convert all of my audio sampling CDs to apple loops STP helps me cut up and loop the audio, then I batch process in the Apple Loop utility.

The Final Cut Pro suite upgrade was the main reason I picked up STP, so i can upgrade to the full suite for less than the price of STP.

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One man's ramblings are another's education. Thanks PV.

May I recommend to everyone that they download the Mackie Traction 2 demo; if you want a garageband pro, this is it.
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Link to Traction 2 here.

Does it work as well with a Mac as it does with a PC? The reviews are great...