Apple Soundtrack Loop-Based Audio Software (Macintosh)

Manufacturer's Description for Apple Soundtrack Loop-Based Audio Software (Macintosh)

Soundtrack is the easiest way to create original royalty-free music.
Soundtrack makes it easy to produce music for videos, DVDs, websites, presentations, or your own recording projects. It includes thousands of professionally recorded, royalty-free instrument loops and sound effects, which you can combine to build original, high-quality music compositions in record time.

Video editors and web developers can score projects quickly, and professional musicians can use Soundtrack as a powerful creative tool. Soundtrack fosters creativity by enabling video editors, web developers, and DVD authors to retain control of the music authoring component of their projects.

Now creative professionals can develop high-quality music without outside assistance and compose royalty-free scores that can be sold, broadcast, and reused without permission or license fees. Prerecorded audio loops can be combined as building blocks for developing entirely original music scores. Soundtrack includes over 4000 starter loops, and users can instantly search their entire library by instrument, genre, or mood to find the perfect sounds for their project.

With a user interface and workflow specifically designed for creative professionals, Soundtrack empowers them to create original scores on their own. It is ideal for fast-paced production environments because everything - including arranging, mixing, and editing - is performed entirely in real time, providing full creative flexibility at every stage of the production.

Liberating Tool for Audio Producers
Soundtrack is easy to use, but becomes even more powerful in the hands of an audio professional. Its high-quality loop matching makes it the perfect starting point for developing original music. Audio producers and remixers can use any of the thousands of available commercial loop libraries to add just the right energy and feel to productions, without worrying about whether tempos and keys match. And with the Soundtrack record function and Soundtrack Loop Utility, musicians can easily create Apple Loops with their own instruments, then use Soundtrack to quickly lay out a song arrangement.

With the included audio effects, support for additional Audio Units plug-ins, and full automation of mixing and effects parameters, Soundtrack is powerful enough to complete an entire professional music composition - from initial creation all the way through final mix. For musicians who would like to use Soundtrack as a musical sketchpad and continue with additional work in a different audio application, Soundtrack allows all tracks to be exported as individual files for further production in applications like Logic or Pro Tools.

Features

Easy-to-use interface means creative professionals like video editors, DVD authors, Flash animators, and web developers can produce music immediately.

Music loops are automatically matched by key and tempo.

Over 4000 royalty-free instrument loops and sound effects are included.

Powerful search engine quickly finds sounds by instrument, genre, and mood.

Support for Apple Loops, AIFF,WAV, and Acid formats gives users access to thousands of third-party libraries.

Ability to slice and rearrange loops in the Timeline allows extensive customization of compositions.

QuickTime movies can be imported for scoring frame-accurate video and motion graphics.

More than 30 audio effects from Apple and Emagic - including EQs, compressors, reverbs, and delays - give extensive sonic control over each audio track.

Support for Audio Units effects plug-ins allows the addition of many more effects.

Automation of mixing and effects parameters gives detailed control over every aspect of the mix.

Additional instrumentation can be recorded in single or multiple takes.

Music can be exported as a stereo mix, into a QuickTime movie, or as individual tracks for continued work in applications like Logic or Pro Tools.

Countless Options
Soundtrack is a flexible tool for a variety of music and audio production scenarios, including speedy creation of original musical content for video, motion graphics, or audio recording projects. It is the optimal choice for fast-paced production environments because all of its features - including arranging, editing, and mixing - work entirely in real time. For the creative professional who wants to retain creative control, get professional results fast, and save money by limiting outsourcing of music services, Soundtrack is the perfect tool.

Ease of use: Easy-to-use interface Soundtrack is designed from the perspective of video editors, DVD authors, and motion graphics animators, offering a familiar music creation environment that shortens the learning curve and allows creative professionals to be productive instantly.

Modular design for building compositions with loops: The building-block design empowers users to quickly arrange original, professional-quality music compositions. Users simply preview and drop instruments into their composition, and extend the performances wherever needed.

Automatic matching of loops by key and tempo: Soundtrack allows seamless blending of music loops regardless of their key or tempo. Both musicians and nonmusicians can easily create stand-alone music compositions or add music to their videos and motion graphics that captures the desired mood and energy.

All work performed in real time: Soundtrack performs all tasks, from key and tempo matching to mixing and effects, in real time. This means the user can instantly evaluate all aspects of the composition as it is built.

High-quality Content
More than 4000 professionally recorded Apple Loops instruments and sound effects: Soundtrack users can immediately create original, high-quality compositions using a wide variety of included audio material.

Included: Apple Loops are royalty-free: Since the audio building blocks of Soundtrack are royalty-free, users have unrestricted ability to sell, commercialize, and broadcast their music creations, without having to pay licensing fees.

Support for import of Acid, AIFF, and WAV files: Users can choose from thousands of third-party loop CDs of instruments and sound effects to purchase for their Soundtrack projects.

Feature Rich
Audio loops always matched, even while project parameters are adjusted: Users don't need to know anything about music theory. Loops are automatically matched together to sound great regardless of how they were originally performed. Soundtrack allows users to experiment with different ideas at any part of the production, for time savings and creative flexibility.

Synchronization of audio sections to markers: Changes to video and motion graphics can result in time-consuming revisions to the audio score, but Soundtrack alleviates this problem by quickly adapting the music to the changes. Soundtrack allows entire sections of multitrack audio to be quickly stretched to align with markers that indicate major edits or scene transitions.

Powerful Searching
Search engine that locates loops by instrument, genre, or mood: Users can instantly search their entire content library to find the perfect sounds for their music, using many different search criteria.

Search engine that works for Apple Loops, as well as third-party AIFF,WAV, and Acid libraries: Soundtrack not only recognizes the search metadata for its own file format, but also has an intelligent search engine that can categorize the hundreds of CDs of Acid loop libraries, even if no descriptive information is embedded in those files.

Professional audio effects and plug-in support
Audio effects from Apple and Emagic included for greater flexibility and creativity: Soundtrack includes more than 30 professional audio effects, which allow users to add effects - such as reverb, EQ, delay, and chorus - to individual tracks for more creative control over the music.

Support for Mac OS X: Audio Units plug-ins Users can expand the audio capabilities of Soundtrack by adding audio effects created by developers using Apple's open-standard plug-in format, Audio Units. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Apple products.

System Requirements

Macintosh computer with a single 500MHz or dual 450MHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor

Mac OS X v10.2.5 or later

QuickTime 6.1 or later

384MB of RAM (512MB recommended)

CD or DVD drive for installing Soundtrack

DVD drive for installing Apple Loops (optional)

5GB of available disk space for installing application and content

Supported Formats (up to 24bit 96kHz)

Apple Loops

Acid

AIFF

WAV

Included Apple AU Effects

Band Pass Filter

Delay

Graphic EQ

High Shelf Filter

High Pass Filter

Low Pass Filter

Low Shelf Filter

Matrix Reverb

Parametric EQ

Peak Limiter

Soundtrack Auto Filter

Soundtrack Reverb

Included Emagic AU Plug-ins

Auto Filter

Bitcrusher

Chorus

Clip Distortion

Compressor

Distortion

Ensemble

Fat EQ

Flanger

Modulation Delay

Noise Gate

Overdrive

Phase Distortion

Phaser

Platinum Reverb

Stereo Delay

Sub-Bass

Tape Delay

Tremelo