Digital Home Thoughts: Adobe Labs Releases Adobe Soundbooth Beta

"Soundbooth is a brand new application built in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit that provides the tools video editors, designers, and others who do not specialize in audio need to accomplish their everyday work such as: Editing audio quickly, Cleaning up noisy audio, Visually identifying and removing unwanted sounds, Recording and polishing voiceovers, Adding effects and filters and Easily creating customized music—without musical expertise. With an innovative user interface that makes short work of everyday tasks, Soundbooth is designed to work well next to Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Adobe® After Effects®, and Adobe® Flash® as well as other creative tools to make your audio flow smoothly with your video and Flash projects... The Soundbooth beta gives creative professionals the chance to preview the newest audio application that delivers focused tools to quickly accomplish everyday audio tasks--even if audio production isn’t your specialty. Fast and intuitive, Soundbooth makes it easy to remove noise from recordings, polish voiceovers, customize music to fit a production, and much more. And while Soundbooth removes the mystery from audio editing, cleanup, and finalization, enabling you to produce high quality audio tracks that add to your images, rather than distract from them."



I remember using Cool Edit back in days of yore, and I really liked it. These days, I don't do much sound editing, but I'd be interested to see what Soundbooth offers. I don't have time to download it and such right now, so if someone else would like to and post your thoughts, that would be great. There's no word on pricing yet, but it's probably not going to be $29.99. :wink: Expect the real product to be released mid-'07.