While Adobe is well known to Mac user for itsCreative Suite products , the company is no alien to the humankind of high - terminal audio . One of those applications , calledSoundbooth , has pass the company ’s expectations with feedback from users since Adobe released a public genus Beta last October .
“ It ’s been grand , ” Hart Shafer , Adobe ’s Senior Manager of Audio Products , toldMacworldat theNAMM swap showfor the music and audio diligence . “ There was clearly a fate of pen up demand for a product like this . ”
Adobe said that need for the audio diligence has been nifty so far and that it ’s close to reaching the 100,000 - download mark since Soundbooth ’s October intromission .
Shafer said that Soundbooth was designed from the ground up with the video recording and Web work flow in mind . While many professionals have to be able to keep in line audio , they do n’t necessarily need the vast feature set that many high - last audio applications offer .
It is the creative pro market where Adobe says Soundbooth differ from Apple’sSoundTrack Pro audience .
“ They are n’t using the app in the same way , ” said Shafer . “ The reason we built Soundbooth is that originative pro did n’t feel the other audio apps were built for them . Most audio apps produce medicine , but our customers wanted something to help clean up audio and make it sound better . ”
Shafer tell he has seen some of the project and different way that customers have been using Soundbooth and has been impressed . masses from all of the Creative Pro markets have apply the app in a diverseness of way .
“ It ’s not just for television masses , but also Dreamweaver and Flash user who ask to brand audio on their World Wide Web sites , ” said Shafer . “ It ’s really something for all Creative Pros . ”
Soundbooth is not Adobe ’s only audio app . The company also makes Audition , a high - end sound covering for create euphony . With Adobe ’s re - entry into the Mac video - editing market with Premiere and the head - to - question battle between Aperture and Lightroom , is there any chance Adobe will take on Apple ’s GarageBand and Logic Pro ?
“ Never say never , ” Shafer said . “ We for sure are getting a lot of request , and we will continue to monitor those in the time to come . ”
