Soundtrack Pro 3 - Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements
  • Mac computer with an Intel processor
  • 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM recommended when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources; 4GB of RAM recommended when working with uncompressed HD sources)
  • ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor. Integrated Intel graphics processors are not supported except the Intel HD Graphics 3000.
  • 128MB of VRAM
  • Display with 1280-by-800 resolution or higher
  • Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
  • QuickTime 7.6 or later
  • DVD drive for installation
  • For 5.1 surround monitoring of multichannel audio content: an audio interface with a minimum of six outputs
  • For multitrack recording: an audio interface with multiple inputs

Precise Audio Control
  • Nondestructive, sample-accurate editing of audio files
  • Support for up to 24-channel files, including mono, stereo, and surround
  • Action-based editing to modify, reorder, suspend, or delete any audio edit, plug-in, or process
  • Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as Actions
  • Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as real-time effect chains
  • Real-time effects applied to audio files can be rendered to Actions
  • Normalize function with Peak, RMS analysis and processing
  • Integrated multichannel file editor
  • Intelligent analysis, repair, and restoration functions for:
    • Clicks and pops
    • Power line hum
    • DC offset
    • Phase
    • Clipped signal
  • Audio time stretching without affecting pitch
  • Included time-stretch algorithms:
    • Apple Time Stretch Universal
    • Apple Time Stretch Complex
    • Apple Time Stretch Percussive
  • Integrated support for third-party time-stretch algorithms (sold separately):
    • Serato Pitch ‘n Time LE
    • SoundToys Speed
    • iZotope Radius
  • Ambient Noise Print to quickly replace unwanted noises from location recordings
  • Background Noise Removal including noise print
  • Sample ruler units in sample value, normalized, percent, and decibel view
  • Snapping to ruler ticks, seconds, frames, markers, and edit points
  • Selectable nudge values: 1 subframe, 1/4 frame, 1 frame, 10 frames, 1 second
  • Support for bit depths up to 32-bit float
  • Support for sample rates from 2kHz to 192kHz
  • Support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF, BWF, SDII, NeXT, QuickTime, and STAP (Soundtrack Audio Project) file playback
  • Saves files nondestructively as STAP files or destructively as AIFF, WAV, SDII, QuickTime, CAF, or NeXT
  • Export mixes as AIFF, WAV, NeXT, SDII, MP3, AAC/Podcast, or Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3), or use Compressor for additional file support
  • Selection history
  • Waveform and customizable Frequency Spectrum views with linear and logarithmic display
  • Frequency selection and editing in Frequency Spectrum view
  • Animated waveform feedback
  • Mini-waveform view

Advanced Sound Design
  • Processes including:
    • Fade in/Fade out
    • Normalize
    • Amplitude adjust
    • Silence
    • Invert
    • Add, delete, reorder channels
    • Mono conversion
    • Resample
    • Generate silence, white noise, pink noise, sine wave, sawtooth wave, square wave, or triangle wave
  • Support for Audio Units plug-ins
  • Audio Units presets available to all Audio Units-compatible applications
  • More than 6000 sound effects, music beds, and music loops, including over 1000 in surround
  • Powerful media search engine
  • Support for Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF, and ACID sound and music libraries

Advanced Take Management
  • Multitake management with take recording and editing directly in Multitake Editor
  • Multitake Editor allows comps of multitake recordings and other audio files
  • Combine individual phrases from different takes
  • Automatic customizable crossfade between phrases
  • Single-click take selection
  • Adjustable transition boundaries for multitake comps
  • Final comp functions as stand-alone clip while retaining access to all takes
  • Slide phrases within edit boundaries

Professional Multitrack Audio Editing
  • Single window with customizable tab panes
  • Customizable window layouts
  • Dynamic tab panes with quick show/hide functionality
  • Resizable video window tab
  • Multitrack Timeline with tracks, busses, submixes, and master in mono, stereo, or surround
  • Multiple multitrack and audio file projects open at once
  • Mixed sample rates, bit depth, and file formats supported in multitrack projects
  • Time- or beat-based tracks
  • Ruler in HH:MM:SS, seconds, samples, frames, drop frame, non-drop frame, beats
  • Waveform Zoom in the Timeline
  • Find and replace related files in the Timeline
  • Adjustable playhead auto-scrolling: on, off, centered
  • Loop clip transposition
  • Loop clip speed adjustments (quadruple, double, normal, half, quarter)
  • Adjustable automatic and manual crossfades
  • Fade selector for customizing fade in, fade out, and crossfades
  • Tape style and sample repeat scrubbing
  • Rolling edit tool
  • Native and custom timecode spotting
  • Multitrack recording of mono, stereo, and multichannel files
  • Lift and Stamp tools to selectively copy voice level, process effects, and equalization print from one clip to another
  • Lifted Data sets can be saved as presets
  • Equalization Matching aligns the EQ characteristics of two selections
  • Automation parameters can move with clips or lock to absolute time
  • Pull up/pull down of audio and video to all common standards
  • Customizable clip and track colors
  • Clip locking in multitrack
  • Clip disabling in multitrack
  • Momentary mono switch
  • Automatable master tempo, master volume, master effects, and key
  • Automation of most mix and effect parameters with read, touch, and latch modes
  • Pre- and post-fader send busses for application of common effect plug-ins to multiple tracks
  • Output bussing for single fader control of multiple tracks
  • Support for multichannel audio output devices
  • Time, duration, podcast, beat, and end-of-project markers
  • Powerful browser for locating content quickly
  • Multipoint Video HUD
  • Tool HUD
  • Timecode HUD
  • Numeric Clip offset
  • Bin with access to multiple projects, media files, markers, and clips
  • Spotlight-style searching in Bin
  • Support for Multi-Touch trackpad gestures

Surround and Stereo Mixing
  • Discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing, and routing
  • Console-style Mixer with full stereo and surround meters on every track, buss, submix, and master
  • Mono, stereo, and surround files can be combined on same track
  • Support for multichannel surround files
  • Surround Panner enables panning of mono, stereo, and surround audio files
  • Surround Panner HUD with automatable controls for rotation, width, collapse, center bias, LFE balance, and individual speaker disabling
  • Surround and stereo panner automation data simultaneously available on each track
  • Automatic surround to stereo Dolby-standard downmix
  • Support for true surround and multi-mono effects
  • Over 1000 royalty-free surround sound effects and music tracks
  • Control surface support for the following protocols:
  • EuCon
  • Mackie Control
  • Logic Control

Integrated Workflow
  • AppleScript scriptable (executable from Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, or as AppleScript droplets for batch processing)
  • Automator actions for creation of complex multi-application workflows
  • Support for QuickTime video formats up to HD resolutions
  • Quick Look support for Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project (STAP) files
  • Integrated video tab
  • Output to SD and HD video monitors (via FireWire or PCI card)
  • HD or SD output using Digital Cinema Desktop to second Apple Cinema Display
  • Send and receive MIDI timecode and beat clock for synchronization with hardware and software
  • Integration with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, DVD Studio Pro 4
  • Nondestructive, round-trip audio file editing with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, and Logic Pro 9
  • Support for Final Cut Pro 7 scoring markers
  • Conform tab to conform audio edit to new Final Cut Pro 7 edits
  • Conform visual interface for highlighting changed areas
  • Accept or reject changes across entire project or selectively on a change-by-change basis
  • Podcast track to create audio-only, enhanced audio, or video podcasts
  • Support for chapter, artwork, and URL markers in video and audio podcasts
  • Export presets and customizable post-export scripts
  • View iXML metadata
  • OMF import
  • AAF import and export

Included Effects
TS = True surround
 
  • Dynamics
    • Adaptive Limiter
    • Compressor
    • DeEsser
    • Expander
    • Limiter TS
    • Multichannel Gain TS
    • Multipressor
    • Noise Gate
    • Surround Compressor TS
  • Distortion
    • Bitcrusher
    • Clip Distortion
    • Distortion
    • Distortion II
    • Exciter
    • Overdrive
    • Phase Distortion
  • EQ and Filter
    • AutoFilter
    • Channel EQ
    • Fat EQ
    • High Cut
    • High Pass Filter
    • High Shelving EQ
    • Linear Phase EQ
    • Low Cut
    • Low Pass Filter
    • Low Shelving EQ
    • Match EQ TS
    • Parametric EQ
    • Soundtrack Pro AutoFilter
  • Modulation
    • Chorus
    • Ensemble TS
    • Flanger
    • Modulation Delay
    • Phaser
    • Scanner Vibrato
    • Tremolo TS
  • Reverb/Delay
    • Delay Designer TS
    • PlatinumVerb
    • Soundtrack Pro Reverb
    • Space Designer TS
    • Stereo Delay
    • Tape Delay
  • Metrics and Diagnostics
    • Correlation Meter
    • Multi Meter TS
    • Test Oscillator
    • Tuner TS
  • Miscellaneous
    • Denoiser
    • Direction Mixer
    • Enveloper
    • Gain
    • Pitch Shifter II
    • Ringshifter
    • Spectral Gate
    • Stereo Spread
    • SubBass
    • Vocal Transformer

 

Published Date: Jul 26, 2017