Adobe Introduces SoundBooth Beta, x86 Only

[kresh]

hehe With 11 billion cash in the bank (half of Adobe's market cap), it would be really sweet if Apple acquired Adobe!

Drop all Adobe apps for Windows. Force people to either convert to Mac or find an alternative.

Ah it's just an awful, evil dream.

Please come true 🙂

 

[Kingsly]

I would love some better noise reduction filters to clean bad location sound.

Soundbooth looks promising for that... but I think I'm better off springing for Soundtrack Pro. 😱

 

[joemama]

hehe With 11 billion cash in the bank (half of Adobe's market cap), it would be really sweet if Apple acquired Adobe!

Drop all Adobe apps for Windows. Force people to either convert to Mac or find an alternative.

Ah it's just an awful, evil dream.

Please come true 🙂

...and then M$ would dump Office for the Mac and by-by mac sales (well, new buyers in any case.)

 

[Digitalclips]

switching to PC ... are you kidding?

Then again it could piss them all off into gradually abandoning the Mac platform and switching to PC.

So you are thinking ... OK as a graphics pro, I need a new computer to run my Adobe Software now it's not available for my G5 and I am pissed off (at who Apple?), so damn it I may as well buy a PC and Windoze instead of that Intel 8 Core Mac with OS X Leopard I was thinking of.

Don't worry, I don't really think this is a huge danger!

What I want next is Apple to bring out an alternative to Photoshop, heck it was based on Mac Paint in the first place 😉

 

[Digitalclips]

Random yet related question:

What do people recommend using to record basic voiceovers in iMovie and FCExpress? My high school students currently use ProTools and Mbox and it's just way too complicated to record a simple voiceover.

How about using itself FCExpress? I make TV material with FCPro and can record VOs directly and I think FCExpress is pretty similar in most areas. Correct me if I am wrong ...

 

[heisetax]

Universal Binary Files for how long?

This is just the beginning of eh end for PPC software. How long do you really think that Apple will support the PPC with new OS revisions? If things stay the way Steve Jobs has done in the past, 10.5 will either be the last or at most the next to last version of a PPC version of the OS.

More companies will probably start taking the easy way out. This means skipping the Universal Binary file & making it Intel Mac only.

Bill the TaxMan

 

[themacthinker]

They can't stand the fight...

Apple is coming up with an update of their production suite this January.
Adobe can keep trying, I don't think that they are getting even close...

 

[Regular_John]

ummm so can some one explain to me just what in the **** adobe is trying to accomplish?

Let's review.
1) Apple announces intel switch, Adobe is there with smiles raving "It's about time!"
2) Apple releases intel based MBP and iMac, shortly after Adobe releases Universal FAQs sheet saying that professionals will have to wait till CS3 for a universal binary.
3) Adobe starts cutting out PPC support, but has yet to offer any Intel Support.


Am I the only one a little confused by their actions? So what? neither chip is good enough?

 

[eXan]

The first time I read the title, I thought that Apple has made Soundbooth app. After re-reading it, I realized it was Adobe who made it 😱

Photobooth, Soundbooth, dont they look familiar? 😉

How did they make a x86-only app for OS X? I though the only way app can be compiled for Intel OS X is use of UB format! Guess I was wrong...

Anyway, I dont need this SoundPooth, I'm happy with my Soundtrack Pro 😀

 

[SPUY767]

We all know that this is just Adobe's Revenge for Apple stepping on its e-Toes with items like Final Cut Studio which for all practical purposes smacks down anything that Adobe can muster up, and for Aperature, which is not as good as it could be, but is still in the realm that Adobe used to dominate. On the audio front, I hope that this costs a lot less than Logic Express because if it's not 50% or more cheaper, this horse is dead before it leaves the gate. I mean, Logic is already cheaper than Audition, and for my money, LE does a bit more than Audition (granted I don't come even close to using the full capabilities of LE).

So maybe Soundbooth is just here to compete with Soundtrack, which is kind of dumb, as no one will be using Soundbooth on a Mac since soundbooth will not integrate with FCS the way that Soundtrack does. The more I write about it, the dumber releasing this app for the Mac sounds. I mean. . . Adobe dropped Premiere for the mac because FCP smoked it, but now they want to release an audio app for mac that probably only has a place in a Premiere workflow. Hell, maybe this is just a SoundEdit Deck 16 II!? WTF!? I'm leaving.

 

[fixyourthinking]

This demonstrates that Adobe is a bunch of morons. If they listened to Apple and used xCode they could click one button and produce a universal binary.

Perhaps Adobe writes ****** software that isn't engineered to be platform independant.

Not for things that make hardware calls - it's not as easy of a compile.

 

[mk_in_mke]

Downloaded an tried it

I am biased... I like every app Apple does... Or almost all of them...

I downloaded and tried Sound Booth:
- Interface: nothing close to Apple's soundtrack
- Features: nothing close to Apple's Soundtrack

Will wait for the next betas and test again but first impression is thumbs down... I think this has been made for AE users who want to have a sound utility or to keep the people who built Sound Edit 16 busy (ex Macromedia).... A lot of work to do to get to Soundtrack features and feel... And by the time it will be donen Soundtrack will get more and more muscle...


Quad Intel 3Ghz
8 Gb Ram
1 Tb HD
NVidia Quadro 4500
Apple Cinema Display 30"

 

[iJED DV]

I messed with it for about 5 minutes and it's nowhere near Soundtrack, IMO. Now I'm not an audio or video pro, but I like to do some tinkering. But as someone else stated, Adobe Audition is much more competition to Soundtrack is than SoundBooth.

Also, this doesn't necessarily need to be a UB. Heck, from what I saw it doesn't really even fill a need with the Intel Macs. Logic and Soundtrack seem to be much better options.

Absolutely, I have no idea why the mac rumors article said it was a competitor to SoundTrack Pro. I'm at a conference in San Francisco and spoke with an Adobe rep who was demoing Soundbooth. It's meant for an audience who doesn't care about the advanced features of Audition but would like to clean up audio or build simple beats. While it does have a couple of similar features to Soundtrack, it's a much more basic program.

Also, I questioned the guy about the PPC thing. He said any existing programming that supports PPC will continue to be supported through at least one more release, since they already have the PPC code foundation. Anything new will be Intel-only, because the architechture is the same. They were told that if they waited for Soundbooth to be released on PPC, there would be no Mac version of Soundtrack.

 

[Kaafir]

Dunt, Dunt, Dunnnnn!

And so it begins - this is the first of only many apps that are going to be written to work with Intel chip sets only, I'm afraid. I am, however, somewhat taken aback that they appeared this early from a major software company.

Perhaps there have been others, but I've not seen anything myself released which didn't have a PPC version available or was UB until now.

 

[volk]

We all know that this is just Adobe's Revenge for Apple stepping on its e-Toes with items like Final Cut Studio which for all practical purposes smacks down anything that Adobe can muster up, and for Aperature, which is not as good as it could be, but is still in the realm that Adobe used to dominate. On the audio front, I hope that this costs a lot less than Logic Express because if it's not 50% or more cheaper, this horse is dead before it leaves the gate. I mean, Logic is already cheaper than Audition, and for my money, LE does a bit more than Audition (granted I don't come even close to using the full capabilities of LE).

So maybe Soundbooth is just here to compete with Soundtrack, which is kind of dumb, as no one will be using Soundbooth on a Mac since soundbooth will not integrate with FCS the way that Soundtrack does. The more I write about it, the dumber releasing this app for the Mac sounds. I mean. . . Adobe dropped Premiere for the mac because FCP smoked it, but now they want to release an audio app for mac that probably only has a place in a Premiere workflow. Hell, maybe this is just a SoundEdit Deck 16 II!? WTF!? I'm leaving.

I don't understand why anyone would slam a company for releasing a product for the Mac...competition is good, and the audio editor market isn't as healthy on the Mac as you think.

This app isn't designed to compete with Soundtrack Pro...it squares off against Soundtrack, Audacity, Amadeus, and Peak LE. Now, Peak is well respected, but I'm not sure why...it seems very clunky to me. Audacity and Amadeus aren't bad, but they suffer from smaller toolsets, interface abnormalities and no video integration. Soundbooth would be a nice addition to this group.

What I hope the most is that this is simply a test of the code base to bring Audition to the Mac...something that I think is desperately needed.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Why spend the money if there is no market?

 

[menziep]

Damn Early for x86 only mac software!

 

[~Shard~]

Damn Early for x86 only mac software!

I guess we'll see if this kicks off a trend, or if it a bit premature in the industry...

 

[iMeowbot]

Damn Early for x86 only mac software!

This is to be expected. Apple sold 680x0 Macs right into mid-1996, but support for the chip was even disappearing from mainstream stuff like Netscape by 1998.

 

[drlunanerd]

Perhaps there have been others, but I've not seen anything myself released which didn't have a PPC version available or was UB until now.

Parallels 😀

 

[lazyrighteye]

SoundEdit 16

This was one of the most handy little apps that I lost when OS X hit the scene. Super intuitive, super effective.

I have Peak and Pro Tools and neither handle those simple, everyday audio needs like a SoundEdit 16 could.

I very much think there is an audience for Soundbooth and that it will be well received. Based on my experienced with SoundEdit 16, if Soundbooth were Universal, I'd more than likely purchase... immediately.

 

[SPUY767]

This was one of the most handy little apps that I lost when OS X hit the scene. Super intuitive, super effective.

I have Peak and Pro Tools and neither handle those simple, everyday audio needs like a SoundEdit 16 could.

I very much think there is an audience for Soundbooth and that it will be well received. Based on my experienced with SoundEdit 16, if Soundbooth were Universal, I'd more than likely purchase... immediately.

Amen to that. Nothing I have ever found is as good at simple splicing of uncompressed audio files than SE16. Amadeus comes close, but not cigar, it just doesn't feel like SE16.

 

[AidenShaw]

Parallels 😀

Boot Camp

 

[bimmerkid]

what about cs?

Dear Adobe,

START FOCUSING ON CS APPS! Damn... My mac mini g4 works faster converting my raw to jpeg files than my c2d iMac! I know you need to compete with Apple... but focus on your current products that are in need of updating to Universal code for the professionals that rely on them!

Thanks,
Bimmerkid

 

[~Shard~]

Dear Adobe,

START FOCUSING ON CS APPS! Damn... My mac mini g4 works faster converting my raw to jpeg files than my c2d iMac! I know you need to compete with Apple... but focus on your current products that are in need of updating to Universal code for the professionals that rely on them!

Guess you haven't heard - Adobe is not updating CS to UB until CS3, set for release in Spring 2007. 😎