General Features:
- New! 24-bit/96kHz audio support
- New! Microsoft Windows Vista support
- New! UI customization
- Show Me How interactive tutorials
- Simple editing and navigation
- Easy drag-and-drop functionality
- Real-time nondestructive editing
- Multitask background rendering
- Media Explorer with automatic file previewing
- Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge
- Fully customizable toolbars
- Mix, paste, and crossfade
- Automatic file mixing and conversion
- Unlimited Undo/Redo
- Over 30 built-in effects & processes
- System and user-defined function presets
- Enhanced Preset Manager
- Crash recovery
- Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
- Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
- Mono and stereo sound files
- Real-time play and record meters
- Full support for 4 GB and larger files
- Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars
- Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution
Supported Formats:
- Opens: AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, SND, DIG, SD, IVC, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2*, OGG, OMA, PCA, QuickTime, RAW, SFA, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV
- Saves: AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, DIG, IVC, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2*, OGG, RealAudio, PCA, RAW, RealVideo, QuickTime, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV
What's new in version 9.0
- 24-bit, 96 kHz support.
- Vinyl Recording and Restoration Tool for recording audio from vinyl records.
- Disc-at-once CD burning.
- JKL scrubbing in data windows.
- You can now update the cursor position and selection by double-clicking and editing the selection status boxes in data windows.
- Drag-and-drop mixing and pasting between channels.
- Enhanced snapping.
- Enhanced color customization via Display Preferences.
- Updated marker and region ruler with selection snapping.
- Gracenote MusicID technology for extracted audio from CDs.
- Support for opening and rendering ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless files.
System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista
- 900 MHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation
- Windows-compatible sound card
- DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
- Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning)
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or later (included on disc)
Changes in version 9.0d
- Horizontal scroll controls in the data window are no longer limited to 1:1 zoom.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when application is launched with a disabled audio device.
- Fixed a bug that would mix the wrong source when performing drag-and-drop mixing.
- Fixed crash when user is a member of a large number of groups.
- Fixed a bug that excluded the last sample when selecting to a marker that occurred on the last sample.
- Fixed potential clipping when mixing channels stereo-to-mono.
- Animation of the video strip can now be toggled from the shortcut menu.
- The Vinyl Recording and Restoration Tool now detects tracks correctly.
