Sonic Foundry Announces the Launch of Sound Forge Power! Muska & Lipman Publish Book for Sound Forge Tips and Tricks.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001 Sonic Foundry Sonic Foundry is the former developer of various media software suites, which were purchased by Sony in late 2003. Sonic Foundry's current product line consists of the webcasting, presentation software Mediasite. Inc., a leading developer of digital media and Internet software products and services, announced the release of Sound Forge Sony Sound Forge, formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, is a digital audio editing and creation suite aimed at the professional as well as the semi-professional market. Power!, a book published by Muska & Lipman and written by Scott Garrigus. The book deals exclusively with Sound Forge(R) 5.0 and Sound Forge(R) 5.0 XP Studio to provide comprehensive instruction on how users can utilize the software to its fullest capacity. Sound Forge 5.0 is Sonic Foundry's award-winning digital audio editor A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Editors designed for use with music allow the user to do the following: Audio editing was a new technology that developed in the middle part of the 20th century with the advent of magnetic tape recording. , audio recording, effects processing, and media encoding. In Sound Forge Power!, Garrigus explains how to optimize a system for music editing, how to use special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , and how to play and record audio files. It also provides tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Sound Forge 5.0 software. "Sound Forge Power! will further enhance the knowledge base for our users and allow them to discover new tricks and tips when it comes to their editing needs in Sound Forge 5.0. This book release is testament to the broad appeal that Sound Forge has in the marketplace and will help a number of people in their everyday work environments whether it is web development, corporate presentations, audio PowerPoint presentations, or other multimedia needs," commented Brad Reinke, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Sonic Foundry. "Additionally, we look forward to developing additional tools similar to this book release for our other award-winning software tools." Sound Forge Power! is available online at www.muskalipman.com/sfpp in bookstores, computer stores, and wherever books are sold. About Sound Forge 5.0 Sound Forge 5.0 provides support for 24-bit/32-bit float/192 kHz audio files, Track-at-once CD burning, and CD Ripping. These features allow the user to produce high-quality audio CDs as well as the ability to transfer music to a hard drive with saving options such as RM, MP3, WAV, WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. , and many other formats. The software includes dozens of editing features including: Cut, Paste, Move, Delete, Mute, Reverse, Fade, Crossfade, Trim, Normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. , Pan, Resample, Enhance, Insert Silence, and more. Sound Forge provides over 35 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets. Additionally, the new version includes 20 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins, featuring XFX XFX Crossfix XFX Extreme Effects (TM)1, XFX(TM)2 and XFX(TM)3, and Acoustic Mirror(TM), which can be used for acoustic simulation and microphone modeling. The suite of audio effects includes: Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay/Echo, Distortion, Dynamics, Compression, Enveloping en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" , Flange/Wah-Wah, Gapper/Snipper, Noise Gate, Pitch Bend/Shift, Reverb re·verb Informal n. 1. A reverberative effect produced in recorded music by electronic means. 2. A device used for producing this effect. intr. & tr.v. , and Vibrato vi·bra·to n. pl. vi·bra·tos A tremulous or pulsating effect produced in an instrumental or vocal tone by minute and rapid variations in pitch. ; three Eqs--Graphic, Parametric, and Paragraphic and Time Compression/Expand. It also supports DirectX-compatible Plug-Ins from third party applications. About Sonic Foundry Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry(R) is a leading developer of digital media and Internet software products and services. Sonic Foundry's award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications, music, video, and broadcast solutions, and digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. . Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division is the pre-eminent supplier of digitization, management, and delivery solutions for audio and video content owners. Serving as the link between content and customers, the Company provides proven, comprehensive processes that enable content delivery to new and emerging distribution channels. Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for the Company's products, the Company's ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services, the effect of new competitors in the Company's market, integration of acquired businesses and other risk factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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