BarbaBatch 2.5 Audio Conversion Tool for Macintosh
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December 17, 1998MacSourcery and AudioEase, developers of multimedia
and professional digital audio software is currently shipping version 2.5 of their
BarbaBatch Batch audio processor.
Designed for fast high quality conversions of digital audio for use in internet,
multimedia and professional production, BarbaBatch 2.5 now provides users with
greater automation and sound processing flexibility.
Segment conversion allows users to convert custom 'snippets' of audio directly
into internet savvy formats. Clips from an entire CD collection can be put on
the internet with one click of the mouse.
Other new features include the ability seperately control the fade-in and
fade-out of converted files as well as the conversion from and to of all flavors
of QuickTime audio. Conversion to Macromedia Director compatible AIFC IMA files
is also new BarbaBatch 2.5.
BarbaBatch 2.5 also adds full support for the professional version of QuickTime
3's Qdesign format. MacSourcery President John Pattenden says the new features
in BarbaBatch 2.5 are in response to customer requests for greater automation
and custom editing features.
"The ability to convert just a snippet of a file makes BarbaBatch ideal for
creating internet ready sample music tracks for artists and online CD retailers."
"BarbaBatch 2.5's support for Qdesign Pro makes Qdesign conversions twice
as fast and allows fine tuning of key parameters to aid in the creation of CD
quality audio for use on the NET," Mr Pattenden said.
BarbaBatch 2.5 can process audio content stored in virtually any format including
CD audio, QuickTime, Real Audio, MPEG, Sound Designer, AIFF, AIFCI MA,WAVE, NeXT/SUN
and VOX
The QDesign encoder can compress audio files to 1/100th of their original
size while maintaining the quality and integrity of the original audio file. The
Professional Edition compresses files twice as quickly as the Basic Edition and
allows users to improve the character of a sound file.
Users can change the file type, sample rate, bit depth, and number of channels
in one pass; add fade-in and fade-out up to five seconds long; remove extraneous
low level sounds through gating; normalize a file; and employ peak-limiting to
optimise sound quality. QuickTime Movie playback is now supported in three places:
batch play, add files, and input dialogs.
Conversion setting "recipes" can be saved and reused and multiple conversions
can be processed in one batch. Detailed log files are also generated for reliable
unattended conversions.
A demo version of BarbaBatch 2.5 is available from MacSourcery at www.macsourcery.com.
BarbaBatch 2.5 is priced at $395 upgrades from version 2.4 and higher are
free. Upgrades from earlier versions are $50.
Feature Summary
Supported file formats:
- Real Audio - including version 5.0
- Quicktime 3 including streaming audio - PureVoice & QDesign Music
- MPEG1 layer I and II
- 4 Dialogic telephony formats (.vox)
- AIFC IMA 1:4
- NeXT/Sun a-law
- Ensoniq Paris file
- CD audio input
- Sound Designer I & II
- AIFF
- AIFC
- WAV
- VOC 8 & 16 bit
- NeXT/SUN mu-law (.au)
- NeXT/SUN linear (.snd)
- Amiga IFF/8SVX
- AVR
- Microsoft ADPCM
- System 7 Sound
- BarbaBatch also converts to sound-only QuickTime Movies.
- Dyaxis MacMix
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Gain & Dynamics Processing:
- Fade-in and fade-out with adjustable fade time.
- Normalizing to a user-editable ceiling in decibels.
- Noise Gating with adjustable time, threshold and attenuation.
- Look Ahead Peak Limiter, with adjustable amplification and limit level.
- Combination of Normalize, Noise Gate and Look Ahead Peak Limiter.
Region & Channel Processing:
- Region extraction: exporting regions to separate audio files, using editable
fades.
- Compacting audio: stripping audio outside regions, using editable safety margins.
- Flexible audio channel processing: Mono to Stereo, Stereo to Mono, Copying
Left orRight to Mono.
- Splitting Stereo into separate mono files. Combining separate left and right
files into one interleaved stereo file.
- Processing of files with more than two channels. Converts region definitions,
loops, markers, sampler info, etc.
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