SoundWorks

Author:         MetaResearch
Platforms:      ?
Prerequisites:  ?
Price:          $198 educational
Demo:           ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/audio/SoundWorks.2.0.N.b.tar.gz
To acquire:     Metaresearch Inc.
                9220 SW Barbur Blvd.
                Suite 119
                Portland, OR 97219
                503 248 4131
Information:    ?
Entry updated:  29 March 1996
Description:    A general sound processing program

3.0v4 seems to be current.

From: mabroa01@draconis.spd.louisville.edu (Morgan A. Broadhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Metaresearch (spoilers)
Date: 22 Mar 1996 21:52:43 GMT


OK kids,

Thanks to all who offered help in finding SoundWorks (or offered to sell/
trade it).  Thanks especially to John Kheit who provided their penultimate
phone number.  Their current phone number and address:

	Metaresearch Inc.
	9220 SW Barbur Blvd.
	Suite 119
	Portland, OR 97219
	503 248 4131

I know this to be true as I spoke to them directly when I ordered the
software.  Kheit also provided this email address, which I did not verify:

	75270.1262@compuserve.com

The educational pricing for SoundWorks 3.0 v4, for any who are interested,
is $197.50.  They are apparently currently working on a version for Intel
processors.

Thanks again,
Alex
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 The Mighty Rev. M. Alexander Broadhead    mabroa01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu
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From: Torsten Belschner 
Date: Wed,  7 Feb 96 22:48:03 +0100
To: "Eric M. Mrozek" 
Subject: Re: Sound and Music Programs for NextStep

"The most recent version I've ever received from Metaresearch was 3.0v4. It works alright, though not really stable. Probs are with excessive filesystem / swap space allocation which eventually cause the machine to run out of swapspace and crash on large scale mixdowns. More features had been announced and never seem to have appeared. Sad for the NeXT music community, as this might have been the most promising sound editing environment that ever made it to market. There have been announcements of a piece of soft called "MetroSound" which was projected on a larger scope, including seamless MIDI integration to sample editing and playing, which to date does not really exist for NS, except for some rudimentary capabilities of Ensemble. MetroSound was abandoned after excessive promotion hype a couple of *days* before its first release. Very disappointing, too. Professional HardDisk recording seems to have been under misfortune for NS Motorola. "

SoundWorks is a general sound processing program that allows NeXT users to record, play, edit, and mix CD-quality sounds. Any sound supported by the NeXT soundkit can be created, modified, and archived to disk.

Of central importance is the Recorder window, which contains the standard tape player buttons for recording, playing and storing sounds that have been created. When many sounds are open simultaneously the name of each sound is placed in the scrolling SoundList for quick reference. Each entry in the list acts like a separate file. Users may manipulate several files at once simply by selecting them from the list and applying a command. This scheme allows users to quickly change sound formats, open, close, save, and play groups of files. It also keeps the sounds organized and at a user's fingertips.

Each sound may also display an Editor window where sound data may be edited using the standard cut, copy, and paste paradigm. Several digital effects, including envelope and pitch adjustment, reverb, echo and delay, may also be applied to the sound.

Once several sounds have been recorded, edited, and polished, users can link sounds together to create CD-quality master recordings. When sounds are linked, they may be mixed into each other or attached with a specified gap between the sounds. Any number of tracks may be combined together in this fashion, allowing users to create and save multi-track sounds.

SoundWorks is a commercial product produced by MetaResearch and available from sources like NeXTConnection.